wireless-hid

GNOME Shell extension

• wireless-hid shows the battery of the wireless keyboards, mice, and game controllers
  • Displays battery percentage with coloured status indicators
  • Supports multiple devices
• Supports GNOME 45+
• Inspired by the Keyboard battery extension on e.g.o

Troubleshooting

• This extension simply displays information from upower
• If you have a problem, please check upower -d
  • If the information there matches the extension, the extension is behaving correctly
  • If the information and extension don't match, report an issue here
• If your device isn't recognised by upower, there's nothing the extension can do

Installation from e.g.o

• Install from here

Manual installation

• git clone https://github.com/vchlum/wireless-hid.git
• cd wireless-hid
• make build
• make install
• Log out & log in
• gnome-extensions enable [email protected]

Install dependencies

• These are only required to install from source
• make
• gnome-shell (gnome-extensions command)

Extension settings:

Hide unknown battery states:

• Some devices misreport disconnected batteries as connected
  • To work around this, devices with un unknown battery state can optionally be hidden
  • This is off by default, as it can cause issues and hide some working devices

Hide ELAN devices:

• Some ELAN devices don't report a charge
  • This setting hides these devices:

Hide old devices after a timeout

• Some devices don't disconnect correctly
  • This setting hides devices that don't update after a length of time

Position in top panel:

• Manually change the position in the top panel