Description of problem: The state and wear of the battery is often a question for laptop owners. Fresh from qa-discuss this hour: " > upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 > > should give you some information. On my laptop, it's BAT1 instead of BAT0. Use "upower -d" to see all devices. Compare the energy-full with the energy-design, and capacity. " IMO it would be enough if it calls "upower -d" to see what battery/ies there are (some have more than one), and list the output from upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT for the batteries found.
That would be a facility in harddrake2 or the like, available from MCC.
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This came up in a thread I started in qa-discuss. I had questions about the health of the battery in my HP Probook. HP provides software to check it, but it's for Windows 7 and up. I was looking for something that would work with Mageia.
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https://upower.freedesktop.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPower
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Hello, Is there already similar application, perhaps specific to one desktop environment?
ptbatterysystemtray does show that my battery is at 100% and only has 33% of it's capacity left. Not as much detail as shown by upower -d, but it has the important loss of capacity shown. None of the other gui battery info applets or applications I've checked show this loss of capacity.
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From wikipedia link in comment 3: " UPower was initially introduced and established as a standard in GNOME.[6] In January 2011 the desktop environment Xfce followed (version 4.8). " I remember KDE4 battery applet showed a popup and warned when battery capacity was low, "broken", and asked user to get a replacement. I could not find a way to use it to check how good a half-good battery was.