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waybar-battery(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual waybar-battery(5)

waybar - battery module

The battery module displays the current capacity and state (eg. charging) of your battery.

bat:
typeof: string
The battery to monitor, as in /sys/class/power_supply/ instead of auto detect.

adapter:
typeof: string
The adapter to monitor, as in /sys/class/power_supply/ instead of auto detect.

full-at:
typeof: integer
Define the max percentage of the battery, for when you've set the battery to stop charging at a lower level to save it. For example, if you've set the battery to stop at 80% that will become the new 100%.

design-capacity:
typeof: bool
default: false
Option to use the battery design capacity instead of its current maximal capacity.

interval:
typeof: integer
default: 60
The interval in which the information gets polled.

states:
typeof: object
A number of battery states which get activated on certain capacity levels. See waybar-states(5).

format:
typeof: string
default: {capacity}%
The format, how information should be displayed.

format-time:
typeof: string
default: {H} h {M} min
The format, how the time should be displayed.

format-icons:
typeof: array/object
Based on the current capacity, the corresponding icon gets selected.
The order is low to high. Or by the state if it is an object.

max-length:
typeof: integer
The maximum length in character the module should display.

min-length:
typeof: integer
The minimum length in characters the module should accept.

align:
typeof: float
The alignment of the label within the module, where 0 is left-aligned and 1 is right-aligned. If the module is rotated, it will follow the flow of the text.

justify:
typeof: string
The alignment of the text within the module's label, allowing options 'left', 'right', or 'center' to define the positioning.

rotate:
typeof: integer
Positive value to rotate the text label (in 90 degree increments).

on-click:
typeof: string
Command to execute when clicked on the module.

on-click-middle:
typeof: string
Command to execute when middle-clicked on the module using mousewheel.

on-click-right:
typeof: string
Command to execute when you right-click on the module.

on-update:
typeof: string
Command to execute when the module is updated.

on-scroll-up:
typeof: string
Command to execute when scrolling up on the module.

on-scroll-down:
typeof: string
Command to execute when scrolling down on the module.

smooth-scrolling-threshold:
typeof: double
Threshold to be used when scrolling.

tooltip:
typeof: bool
default: true
Option to disable tooltip on hover.

bat-compatibility:
typeof: bool
default: false
Option to enable battery compatibility if not detected.

menu:
typeof: string
Action that popups the menu.

menu-file:
typeof: string
Location of the menu descriptor file. There need to be an element of type

GtkMenu with id menu

menu-actions:
typeof: array
The actions corresponding to the buttons of the menu.

expand:
typeof: bool
default: false
Enables this module to consume all left over space dynamically.

{capacity}: Capacity in percentage

{power}: Power in watts

{icon}: Icon, as defined in format-icons.

{time}: Estimate of time until full or empty. Note that this is based on the power draw at the last refresh time, not an average.

{cycles}: Amount of charge cycles the highest-capacity battery has seen. (Linux only)

{health}: The percentage of the highest-capacity battery's original maximum charge it can still hold.

The battery module allows you to define how time should be formatted via format-time.

The three arguments are: {H}: Hours {M}: Minutes {m}: Zero-padded minutes

The battery module allows one to define custom formats based on up to two factors. The best-fitting format will be selected.

format-<state>: With states, a custom format can be set depending on the capacity of your battery.

format-<status>: With the status, a custom format can be set depending on the status in /sys/class/power_supply/<bat>/status (in lowercase).

format-<status>-<state>: You can also set a custom format depending on both values.

  • Every entry (state) consists of a <name> (typeof: string) and a <value> (typeof: integer).
  • The state can be addressed as a CSS class in the style.css. The name of the CSS class is the <name> of the state. Each class gets activated when the current capacity is equal to or below the configured <value>.
  • Also each state can have its own format. Those can be configured via format-<name>. Or if you want to differentiate a bit more even as format-<status>-<state>. For more information see custom-formats.

"battery": {
	"bat": "BAT2",
	"interval": 60,
	"states": {
		"warning": 30,
		"critical": 15
	},
	"format": "{capacity}% {icon}",
	"format-icons": ["", "", "", "", ""],
	"max-length": 25
}

  • #battery
  • #battery.<status>
<status> is the value of /sys/class/power_supply/<bat>/status in lowercase.
#battery.<state>
<state> can be defined in the config. For more information see states.
#battery.<status>.<state>
Combination of both <status> and <state>.

The following classes are applied to the entire Waybar rather than just the battery widget:

window#waybar.battery-<state>
<state> can be defined in the config, as previously mentioned.
2025-07-19

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