A couple of times I have been playing something and was so deep in the game I didn’t realize the battery was going down faster than I realized and the deck decided to turn off.

I have been thinking it would be nice for me to have the battery level visible even when running a game in full screen mode. I have an app on my phone with permission to display on top of other apps that draws a line around the camera cut out showing the battery charge level no matter what I am doing on the phone. In some older phone with no cutout I used to have a horizontal line in the top of the screen.

I would love to have this on the deck. Does anyone know if it exists? I’ve been searching with no result. If it doesn’t exist, I wonder how difficult it would be to implement it… I have no clue how to have it display on top of everything though.

The image shows one of the old apps I used to have to do this on my phone.

  • WFH@lemmy.zip
    35·
    2 days ago

    Yes it’s already there, you just have to activate the performance overlay in the “•••” menu.

    You can easily alter one of the presets to only show battery percentage by editing /home/deck/.config/MangoHud/preset.conf using this documentation.

    My goto preset only shows FPS, watts and battery percentage.

    • yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      Oh wow thank you. I had missed those! They are fairly distracting as they are by default, but I’m sure I can figure out something thanks to your link!