omarchy-battery-tooltip

Replace Omarchy's minimal waybar battery tooltip with a richer one:

󰁿 Battery 69% · 03h:49m left · ↓10.3W/57Wh

…wrapped in an accent-coloured border that follows the active Omarchy theme.

The default tooltip on a stock Omarchy install shows just 5W↓ 69%. This installer adds time remaining, power direction, formatted power draw, and your battery's capacity in Wh — auto-detected from /sys/class/power_supply/.

Requirements

• Omarchy (waybar set up at ~/.config/waybar/)
• A laptop. The script auto-detects via hostnamectl / SMBIOS chassis type and exits cleanly on desktops, VMs, and servers (use --force to install anyway).
• bash, awk, find, python3 — all in Omarchy's base install.

Install

One-liner:

curl -fsSL https://git.no-signal.uk/nosignal/omarchy-battery-tooltip/raw/branch/main/install-battery-tooltip.sh | bash

GitHub mirror:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/28allday/omarchy-battery-tooltip/main/install-battery-tooltip.sh | bash

Or clone and run:

git clone https://git.no-signal.uk/nosignal/omarchy-battery-tooltip.git
cd omarchy-battery-tooltip
./install-battery-tooltip.sh

Hover the battery icon in waybar to see the new tooltip.

Options

Flag	Effect
(none)	Use the battery's design capacity (rated spec, never changes).
--current	Use the current full-charge capacity instead — reflects degradation. Re-run to refresh.
--force	Install even if the script doesn't think this is a laptop.
--help	Print the script's header.

Safe to re-run

The script is idempotent:

• config.jsonc — finds the existing "battery" block and replaces the tooltip keys in place (or inserts them if missing). Stock or already-patched configs both work.
• style.css — uses a /* >>> battery-tooltip */ marker block, so re-runs replace what's between the markers rather than accumulating.

A timestamped backup of each file is written next to it on every run:

~/.config/waybar/config.jsonc.bak.<unix-ts>
~/.config/waybar/style.css.bak.<unix-ts>

Theme follows automatically

• Border colour pulls @selected-text from the active theme's walker.css. Switching themes with omarchy-theme-set updates the border on the next waybar reload.
• Font follows because the tooltip wraps dynamic fields in <span face='monospace'>, which picks up whatever font omarchy-font-set configured.

Uninstall / revert

Restore the most recent backups:

cd ~/.config/waybar
ls -t config.jsonc.bak.* | head -1 | xargs -I{} cp {} config.jsonc
ls -t style.css.bak.*    | head -1 | xargs -I{} cp {} style.css
omarchy-restart-waybar

Design notes

See install-battery-tooltip.NOTES.md for the why-it-works-this-way: laptop detection layering, idempotency strategy, capacity-mode trade-off, the GTK-tooltip monospace-wrapper workaround, and known edge cases.

Tested on

Acer Nitro laptop with Realtek BAT1 (Li-ion, ~57Wh design, charge-based sysfs), fresh stock Omarchy configs and already-patched configs, plus simulated desktop / unknown-flag / missing-battery paths.

License

MIT.