wmbattery (laptop battery status dockapp) wmbattery displays the status of your laptop's battery in a small icon. This includes if it is plugged in, if the battery is charging, how many minutes of battery life remain, battery life remaining (with both a percentage and a graph), and battery status (high - green, low - yellow, or critical - red). Note: For wmbattery to work, the system message bus (aka D-Bus) must be running. By default, this is enabled in the Slackware installer. If you disabled it, you can re-enable with: # chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus # /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus start