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- On laptop computers, the APM support provides access to battery status
- information and may help you to conserve battery power, depending on your
- laptop and the APM implementation.
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- Here's what apmd can do:
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- - apmd(8): can log the battery status to syslog every now and take
- action when the power status changes
-
- - apm(1): a command-line tool to print the current battery status
- or suspend the computer;
-
- - xapm(1x): provides a battery meter for X;
-
- - libapm.a: a library for writing applications that interface with
- the Linux APM subsystem.
-
- Please read the manual pages for more information.
-
- The license for library can be found in the apmlib.COPYING file.
- The license for the remainder of this package can be found in the COPYING file.
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- The authors
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