On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Tim Chase wrote: >> How to check the battery on a laptop with orca? > > In most modern kernels, you can just > > cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state So there is no way of getting a percentage? Thanks, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ d.dalton at iinet.net.au