To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

[giggz]

Hi,

I search ideas to have a good prompt which display the cpu frequency
or/and the battery state in my zsh prompt.

So if you have ideas and examples which I can put in my zshrc...

Thx and Regards,
Guillaume

Re: To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

[Michael Hernandez]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 9:26 AM, giggz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I search ideas to have a good prompt which display the cpu frequency
> or/and the battery state in my zsh prompt.
>
> So if you have ideas and examples which I can put in my zshrc...
>
> Thx and Regards,
> Guillaume
>


What OS are you using? I have a mostly-working combination of scripts  
that shows me battery percentage on my mac. Also if you look at the  
clint prompt that is shipped with zsh there is some apm stuff in there.


--Mike H

Re: To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

[wgscott]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:26:39 +0200
giggz <giggzounet@gmail.com> wrote:

     Hi,
     
     I search ideas to have a good prompt which display the cpu frequency
     or/and the battery state in my zsh prompt.
     
     So if you have ideas and examples which I can put in my zshrc...
     
     Thx and Regards,
     Guillaume
     
What's your operating system?  I think this stuff is highly OS-dependent.  On Ubuntu Linux,
for example, I have /proc/acpi 

On OSX, system_profiler yields a lot of information but is too sluggish.
system_profiler -detailLevel mini
might be good enough.

Re: To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

[wgscott]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:02:46 -0400
Michael Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com> wrote:

     
     On Oct 14, 2007, at 9:26 AM, giggz wrote:
     
     > Hi,
     >
     > I search ideas to have a good prompt which display the cpu frequency
     > or/and the battery state in my zsh prompt.
     >
     > So if you have ideas and examples which I can put in my zshrc...
     >
     > Thx and Regards,
     > Guillaume
     >
     
     
     What OS are you using? I have a mostly-working combination of scripts  
     that shows me battery percentage on my mac. Also if you look at the  
     clint prompt that is shipped with zsh there is some apm stuff in there.
     
     
     --Mike H
     
I just found this "battery" script of OS X that is even written in zsh!

http://www.mitt-eget.com/software/macosx/battery/battery

Re: To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

[Michael Hernandez]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:46 PM, wgscott@chemistry.ucsc.edu wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:02:46 -0400
> Michael Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>      On Oct 14, 2007, at 9:26 AM, giggz wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I search ideas to have a good prompt which display the cpu frequency
>> or/and the battery state in my zsh prompt.
>>
>> So if you have ideas and examples which I can put in my zshrc...
>>
>> Thx and Regards,
>> Guillaume
>>
>
>
>      What OS are you using? I have a mostly-working combination of  
> scripts
>      that shows me battery percentage on my mac. Also if you look  
> at the
>      clint prompt that is shipped with zsh there is some apm stuff  
> in there.
>
>
>      --Mike H
>
> I just found this "battery" script of OS X that is even written in  
> zsh!
>
> http://www.mitt-eget.com/software/macosx/battery/battery
>

Yes I use that with my zsh prompt, I have code to use battery to pull  
the percentage and then stick it on the right-hand-prompt. Also have  
it change colors from green to yellow to red depending on the  
percentage, and show whether or not I am plugged in (AC) or using  
battery (DC). For example (hopefully Mail.app doesn't wrap it  
horribly...

--INSERT-- :zsh-4.2.5: (Sun 10/14/2007 15:13 EDT)
<Mike@artemis:~>
:p2: %                                                             
*AC* (99.8%)

The --INSERT-- is from visual vi mode...

I'm hoping that with leopard things don't change so much that it  
breaks my prompt :)

--Mike H

Re: To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

[Atom Smasher]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, giggz wrote:

> I search ideas to have a good prompt which display the cpu frequency 
> or/and the battery state in my zsh prompt.
>
> So if you have ideas and examples which I can put in my zshrc...
=================

i've got this (in colors, depending on battery state and level of charge) 
on FreeBSD 6.2 (acpi). if anyone wants details i'll post...

short version: root runs a cron job every minute to get the battery state; 
this is written to a file in /tmp; the prompt looks for this file; if it's 
there it becomes part of the prompt.


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Re: To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

[giggz]

Atom Smasher a écrit :
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, giggz wrote:
> 
>> I search ideas to have a good prompt which display the cpu frequency
>> or/and the battery state in my zsh prompt.
>>
>> So if you have ideas and examples which I can put in my zshrc...
> =================
> 
> i've got this (in colors, depending on battery state and level of
> charge) on FreeBSD 6.2 (acpi). if anyone wants details i'll post...
> 
> short version: root runs a cron job every minute to get the battery
> state; this is written to a file in /tmp; the prompt looks for this
> file; if it's there it becomes part of the prompt.
> 
> 
Yes please :)

Thx a lot
Guillaume

Re: To have cpu frequency or/and battery state percentage in my prompt

[Atom Smasher]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, giggz wrote:

>> i've got this (in colors, depending on battery state and level of 
>> charge) on FreeBSD 6.2 (acpi). if anyone wants details i'll post...
>>
>> short version: root runs a cron job every minute to get the battery 
>> state; this is written to a file in /tmp; the prompt looks for this 
>> file; if it's there it becomes part of the prompt.
>>
> Yes please :)
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http://smasher.org/tmp/zshrc-and-battery-stuff.tgz

the shell script is run by root every minute. the overhead is too high to 
run it every precmd. if that script is not running (and thus not creating 
the /tmp/battery-status file) ie; on my server, the battery status part of 
the prompt is gracefully ignored.

the battery stuff is most likely freebsd specific (i haven't tested it on 
anything else) but there's a lot of wild-n-crazy stuff in my zshrc that 
can be "borrowed" for any system ;)

lemme know how it works out... and if anyone improves on anything there, 
please share it...


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