<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">Since this is the Linux list, I'll assume that's the context.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">Power to the hardware and all of the various instrumentation is carried up to the OS through the ACPI drivers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#330033" face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-laptop-battery-status-temperature/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-laptop-battery-status-temperature/</a> will be a good read for you.</font><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roberto@connexer.com" target="_blank">roberto@connexer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:59:26AM -0600, tom wrote:<br>
> How to check if laptop battery is being charged in real time.<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>Are you talking about checking from an applet in a desktop environment,<br>
a standalone GUI application, a command-line application, or from a<br>
program? If from a program, then what language/framework?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
-Roberto<br>
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