Re: [orca-list] Orca Key binding for reading battery status in Ubuntu-14.04 for laptop?

From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
To: Dhairyashil Bhosale <dhairyashil bhosale584 gmail com>, "orca-list gnome org" <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca Key binding for reading battery status in Ubuntu-14.04 for laptop?
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 07:08:25 -0500

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hi
Reguarding battery status, imo this should be added to orca, and
become part of orca's default keybindings. Most linux distros nowadays
come with the necessary tools to view this information, including
fedora, so it shouldn't be too difficult. If this ever gets added, I
would like to  propose that orca display battery information on all
supported devices, not only the laptop battery. I have a keyboard and
mouse combo that reports it's level to gnome, and I can see it in the
power settings, but I'm not sure how to retrieve it via acpi, I'll
look into this.
Thanks
Kendell clark
Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux


Dhairyashil Bhosale wrote:

HI B.Henry, chrys87 and all,

1) Thanks for responding so quickly, and Thanks so much for the
great information. But I have some doubt in mind that, as per reply
form B.Henry that :-

I went about this a slightly different way making a little script
that

uses yad, or zenity to display the output of acpi -b for a couple
seconds. The script can be tweaked to keep the info on-screen
till you dismiss it, allow for copying the battery state, etc. I
then bind the script to some hotkey, insert b when using fluxbox
to come close to the orca customization file I got used to back
in gnome2 days. Since I can't use insert in unity or probably
much of any desktop I always have a bash alias to give me the
output when I type bat in a console or teminal emulator. Here is
the dropbox link for the script called gbat. I have similar
scripts fro checking core temperature, and a couple more, plus a
slightly more complex one for displaying weather data. If you do
not want to install yad, I probably have a zenity using version 
around still. It's almost the same, but zenity option names vary
a bit. I'd recommend getting yad though. 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7478895/gbat


I tried 'yad' and its working fine, but for that we have to assign
new external key binding and script, but it will not be a part of
orca or it will not be a orca keybinding. so how can we set this
using orca key binding and which orca's script we have to modify
for getting battery status, so can you please provide me some
information related to that.

2)

And as per reply from chrys87:-

Hii Dhairyashil, I could send you my orca-customisazion.py


this provide this function.


Hi chrys87 can you please email me
(dhairyashil bhosale584 gmail com) the 'orca-customisazion.py' file
please and also please provide some information related to please.

3)

Hi all,

I am also wondering that why the this feature i.e getting battery
status is not a part of orca in ubuntu 14.04 ? if any one know
about this please give me information, I also like to work on
that.

With Regards, Dhairyashil Bhosale.

Message: 3 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:49:38 +0200 From: chrys87
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[orca-list] Orca Key binding for reading battery status in
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Hii Dhairyashil,

i could send you my orca-customisazion.py this provide this
function. ------------------------------

Message: 4 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:26:57 -0500 From: "B.
Henry" <burt1iband gmail com> To: Orca mail-list
<orca-list gnome org> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca Key binding
for reading battery status in Ubuntu-14.04 for laptop? 
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I went about this a slightly different way making a little
script that uses yad, or zenity to display the output of acpi
-b for a couple seconds. The script can be tweaked to keep the
info on-screen till you dismiss it, allow for copying the
battery state, etc. I then bind the script to some hotkey,
insert b when using fluxbox to come close to the orca
customization file I got used to back in gnome2 days. Since I
can't use insert in unity or probably much of any desktop I
always have a bash alias to give me the output when I type bat
in a console or teminal emulator. Here is the dropbox link for
the script called gbat. I have similar scripts fro checking
core temperature, and a couple more, plus a slightly more
complex one for displaying weather data. If you do not want to
install yad, I probably have a zenity using version around
still. It's almost the same, but zenity option names vary a
bit. I'd recommend getting yad though. 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7478895/gbat




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- Re: [orca-list] Orca Key binding for reading battery status in Ubuntu-14.04 for laptop?
  - From: Dhairyashil Bhosale

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