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 wireless-hid@chlumskyvaclav.gmail.com

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