xbattmon is a simple battery status bar for X. It draws a thin (2-pixel) bar at the edge of the screen, indicating battery status using different colors. xbattmon is configured at build time. The following variables can be passed to the SlackBuild script (VAR= ./xbattmon.SlackBuild): COLOR_CHARGED= (default: green) COLOR_LEFT2CHARGE= (default: grey) COLOR_DRAINED= (default: red) COLOR_LEFT2DRAIN= (default: blue) RAISE=yes|no (default: no) Raise the bar above other windows. CRITICAL= (default: 5) Battery percentage at which the bar starts blinking. TRANSPARENT=yes|no (default: no)