IBAM also has a number of nifty features. One of those features is to generate a graph of battery
life and charge time. To do that, you need gnuplot (a tool for graphing all sorts of information)
installed on your laptop. From there, type ibam --plot and a color-coded graph appears in a new
window.
There's a lot more under the hood. To see all that IBAM can do, type the command ibam --help.
Drawbacks to this approach
If you're not comfortable working at the command line, then you probably won't like either of
these solutions. On top of that, they don't dynamically update. You have to keep running acpi or
IBAM to get the latest information about your battery.
If you want to put the output from acpi or IBAM on your desktop, then check out Conky. It's a
monitor that displays system information on your desktop, either as text or in a set of graphs
and charts. Conky can be a challenge to set up, but does its job without a lot of overhead.
Still, both acpi and IBAM give you a little more flexibility when monitoring your battery. Often,
the information that these utilities return is more accurate than most desktop battery monitors.
They're worth a look for that reason alone.
article source:http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/13876.aspx
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