Low Battery Yup

When a Mac laptop is low on battery, Mac OS X will kindly show an alert dialog to make the user aware of this. Mac OS X will unkindly pop that dialog on top of all other windows without making it the key window, thus rendering it impossible to dismiss using the keyboard alone. Instead, users must mouse to the window in order to make it go away.

Low Battery Yup is a daemon that will click the low battery alert dialog's OK button when a keyboard shortcut is pressed, eliminating the need to use the mouse. This allows you to say “Yup, thanks for letting me know. You can go away now, just don't force me to reach for the mouse”.

The global shortcut that activates the pressing of the OK button is configurable.

Demo

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Configuration Screenshot

Configuration

Install

A copy of the application bundle is available on the releases page. Unzip it and drag it to your /Applications folder.

Uninstall

Open Low Battery Yup. If the button reads “Quit Application”, click it. Uncheck the “Start at login” check box. Quit and trash Low Battery Yup and its ~/Library/Preferences plist file.

Dev Info