Lifeline

A Visual Studio Code extension that shows a clock and, on a machine that has one, the battery in the status bar.

Upstream hugginsio/vscode-lifeline was last released as 1.2.0 in December 2020 and archived in 2022. This fork is the 2.0.0 continuation.

Features

The clock sits at the right of the status bar. The battery sits just to its left, and shows + while charging (+83%). Swap that order in the settings.

Desktops are not given a fake battery. On macOS the extension reads pmset -g batt and shows a percentage only when that output contains one. An iMac that reports Now drawing from 'AC Power' and nothing else stays clock-only. A laptop at a real 0% still shows 0%.

The same rule is applied on Windows (Win32_Battery) and Linux (/sys/class/power_supply/BAT*). A failed read leaves the previous indicator alone instead of flashing 0%.

Configuration

lifeline.battery.interval

Polling interval for the battery, in milliseconds. Default 3000. Ignored when no battery is present.

lifeline.clock.format

Clock format. Default h:mm:ss A. Tokens follow the common moment set (h, hh, H, HH, m, mm, s, ss, A, a, plus YYYY, MM, DD, ddd, MMMM). Put literal text in [brackets].

lifeline.clock.interval

Polling interval for the clock, in milliseconds. Default 1000.

lifeline.swap

Swap the battery and the clock. Default false. Ignored when no battery is present.

Preview

Device unplugged	Device charging