Linux Low battery notification

[meetdilip]

I am amazed to find out that Ubuntu 21.04 does not give battery notifications on laptops. How do you manage low battery and battery full notifications in Ubuntu 21.04 ? Thanks.

 

[vishalrao]

It's probably just the kernel that does not (yet) support it for your particular laptop model, might work in a later release...

btw if your laptop battery has the option to provide battery life percentage reporting feature then enable it and see?

 

[meetdilip]

It's probably just the kernel that does not (yet) support it for your particular laptop model, might work in a later releas

Is there any workaround ? Thanks.

provide battery life percentage reporting feature

Yes, I have enabled the battery percentage. It is easy to miss.

 

[vishalrao]

Only workaround I can think of is to install a newer kernel but I wouldn't want to mess around with this.

Does your laptop at least show the battery percentage if the option is enabled in the desktop settings?

Actually I also never checked whether my laptop shows the alerts in linux...

 

[meetdilip]

Does your laptop at least show the battery percentage if the option is enabled in the desktop settings?

Yes, it does.

Actually I also never checked whether my laptop shows the alerts in linux...

I haven't used Ubuntu on a laptop in a while. There used to be a software called Battery Monitor. But it is archived now. Not available since 18.04. If I remember correctly, Ubuntu never had any low battery notification unless we use a third-party tool. It will simply suspend your PC.
Found something for Ful Battery notification

GitHub - hg8/battery-full-notification: A simple script to display a notification when your battery is full in Ubuntu/Linux Mint.

A simple script to display a notification when your battery is full in Ubuntu/Linux Mint. - hg8/battery-full-notification

github.com