How do I make the Battery notification more obvious?

Question

Can the low battery notification's look and feel be made clearer? The default notification is very small. So sometimes, we do not even notice that notification and the laptop shuts down.

So, how can I change the look and feel for only the low battery notifications?

Perhaps a beeping when percentage drops below 10 that grows more annoying as it approaches 3%? — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Sep 06 '19 at 11:24
Actually, I am working in office so most of the time laptop sound is disabled. So in that scenario...
And thank for nice title. @dk-bose — shivang patel, Sep 06 '19 at 11:30

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 06 '19 at 11:55

I am not sure how easy it is to tinker only the low battery alert notification, but you can manually set up a slightly better notification system for yourself following this hacky workaround:

First you'll need to install acpi by running
```
sudo apt install acpi
```

Next you need to create a bash script. Create an empty text file, say battery-alert.sh and add the following lines

#!/bin/bash
while true
    do
        export DISPLAY=:0.0
        battery_level=`acpi -b | grep -P -o '[0-9]+(?=%)'`
        if on_ac_power; then                           #check if AC is plugged in
                :
        else
             if [ $battery_level -le 5 ]; then         #check if the battery level is below 5%, change the number after "-le" to set your preferred battery level
                notify-send -u critical "Low Battery!" "Please plug your AC adapter, battery level: ${battery_level}%" -i battery-caution
             fi
        fi
sleep 300                                              #wait for 300 seconds before checking again, change the number after "sleep" to set your preferred waiting period
done

Save the file.
Make the script executable and run it. You'll get a persistent notification (you'll have to click it to dismiss it) if the battery level is below 5%.

You may also consider adding the script to your startup applications so that it starts automatically every time you boot your laptop.

How do I make the Battery notification more obvious?

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