Having a laptop with not much battery and a backlit keyboard made me wonder how much power it was spending at each moment. Being able to gather that information from the system and putting it into a shell script was the first thing to do, but as I use Gnome on my daily basis, I just created this small extension to show up the power consumption.
Currently it refreshes each second
- Preferences to set the refresh rate
- Detect more than one battery
- Detect if there's no battery and show just a
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- Select Battery to take power consumption from
- First Version, just showing power consumption