Low-batt notification for Puppy? (Solved)

[Subito Piano]

Thanks, muggins! For some reason my home laptop makes a LOT of noise to warn of a low battery (a BIOS feature) but my work laptop doesn't. You solution is nice and small -- and an easily-installed pet.

Just in case somebody else needs an audible warning, my one tweak (after installation) -- in case I'm not in front of my laptop when the battery gets low -- was to add an alarm. I found a nice WAV file of a siren ("siren.wav" - it has to be a WAV file for some reason), put it in /usr/audio, and edited the cbatt file in ~/Startup to read so:

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#!/bin/sh

cbatticon -l 5 -r 3 -c "aplay /usr/share/audio/siren.wav wmreboot"

Now it warns me visually at around 5%, then again at 3%, then soon I am audibly warned of an impending nuclear meltdown! Nice and annoying -- it grabs my attention.