Widget only displays battery prefix about battery-widget HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi,

I assume you mean the widget displays either of the strings "AC: " or "Bat: ", correctly depending on whether cord is plugged in, but missing the percentage? (sorry it wasn't 100% clear to me)

Can you show the output of ls -la /sys/class/power_supply and the code that instanciates your battery widget in the awesome/rc.lua?

Best, Thomas

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Oh, I think I misread. You mean that it always shows "Bat: " including the percentage, right?

In this case, can you check whether the /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/AC/ folder exists (probably a symlink).

If so, what does cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/AC/online show?
If not, what does cat /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online show?

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Sorry for late reply, been travelling and away from my laptop. Will provide you with the info soon.

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Hi,

No the AC directory doesn't exist anywhere, but there's a directory named ACAD along with the BAT directory, and it contains a file named online which contains 1 if the power cable is plugged in. Changing 'AC/online' to 'ACAD/online' fixes the problem for me, but might break it for someone else.

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Great. I added the fallback to ACAD. (Unfortunately, I don't know enough about this topic to be sure if there are any other possibilities). Thanks a lot for reporting!

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