nbosd (notebook OSD)
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Author:	Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>

nbosd (notebook OSD) is an on screen display application, that can display
a machine's battery status and CPU frequency on FreeBSD.

Requirements
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nbosd depends on XOSD. You need to install XOSD prior to building nbosd.
Get the tarball from http://www.ignavus.net/software.html


Installation
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Just run 'make' and 'make install' in the source directory


Usage
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The intended use of nbosd is to have a keyboard shortcut to run it.
Without any parameter given the OSD exits after 1.5 seconds.

Possible parameters are:

	-h 		show usage information
	-a		alarm percentage
	-c color 	font and bar color
	-d		daemon mode
	-f font 	override the standard font with <font>
       	-t time (ms)	display the OSD for <time> ms
	-w width	width of the bars
	-x x-offset 	x-offset of the bottom left corner
	-y y-offset 	y-offset of the bottom left corner

Default settings:

	alarm percentage: 7
	color:		  green
	font:		  -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-320-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
	time:		  1500 ms
	width:		  50
	x-offset:	  10
	y-offset:	  48


Known Bugs
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- nbosd only reads new values when running in daemon mode
