This is a useful script to detect whether a laptop is running on AC power. It checks /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/state and also apm and pmu. Multiple AC/batteries are respected.
Created attachment 47484 [details] powermgmt-base-1.21.ebuild
Created attachment 47496 [details] powermgmt-base-1.21.ebuild
Created attachment 47691 [details] sys-apps/powermgmt-base-1.21.ebuild added docs and a dependency on gawk. Proposing sys-apps as category because {apm,acpi}_available are useful not only on laptops.
thank you, in portage now