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Battery Monitor - xfce4-battery-plugin

A battery monitor panel plugin for Xfce4, compatible with APM and ACPI, for Linux and *BSD.

Usage

Add the plugin to the panel. Right-click on the added plugin to open the settings window. This plugin has three tabs:

Level and actions: Specify which command to run when the battery goes below a percentage;
Bar colours: Specify which colors to use for the bar on different battery percentages;
Display: Customize what icons and label see on the panel.

Level and action tab

Bar colours tab

Display tab

xfce4-battery-plugin 1.2.0 released (2025/05/19 16:45)
xfce4-battery-plugin 1.2.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-battery-plugin/1.2/xfce4-battery-plugin-1.2.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-battery-plugin/1.2/xfce4-battery-plugin-1.2.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-battery-plugin/1.2/xfce4-battery-plugin-1.2.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is xfce4-battery-plugin? ============================= A battery monitor panel plugin for Xfce4, compatible with ACPI and sysfs, for Linux and *BSD. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-battery-plugin/start Release notes for 1.2.0 ======================= Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system, and autotools will be removed in a future release. - Update README after switchover to meson - build: Automate copyright year management - meson-build: Use shared_module() - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0 - meson-build: Do not install Makefile.in - build: Use VERSION_FULL instead of PACKAGE_VERSION - Add meson build - Translation Updates: Vietnamese