I recently upgraded to 11.10 from 11.04, everything went fine, still hate unity and all that. But my battery status is not showing up at all, even on my laptop. There isn't even any spaces for it, there is only the Mail Icon, Wirelesss Icon, Sound, Time, [username] and Power. I have tried several different things to get it, but I am at a loss. Please help
indicator-power and it is installed.
I found that my power indicator had simply crashed. Executing the following in a terminal restarted it in no time:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-power/indicator-power-service &disown
the indicator is:
indicator-power
Make sure that is installed.
sudo apt-get install indicator-power
If it is installed I would try re-installing it.
sudo apt-get purge indicator-power
sudo apt-get install indicator-power
I have not found an indicator file to edit that controls them loading or not.
I was having the same problem on 12.04 ... No power indicator applet (upon login -- saw one AT the login screen).
Running gsettings list-recursively|grep settings-daemon spat out that:
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active false
In terminal,
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active true
... logged out and back in and I was good.
This was a fresh install from ISO of 12.04, so for those of you seeing two icons, you might want to set "....plugins.power active false" and see if one goes away.
The indicator is called: indicator-power. You can try this 3 solutions preferably by their current order:
Confirm that it is installed:
sudo apt-get install indicator-power
If installed, try removing it and reinstall:
sudo apt-get purge indicator-power
sudo apt-get install indicator-power
If no avail, run the configuration utility:
gnome-settings-daemon
If you got here, it's time to try an alternative monitor package:
How to add a detailed battery indicator to Ubuntu
This solutions were found at 11.10 No battery status icon - Ask Ubuntu
Use dconf-editor. If you don't have it installed, you can do so, by just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command below.
sudo apt-get install dconf-editor
I had the same problem both with 11.10 and with 12.04, and the other answers here didn't fix it.
Running gnome-settings-daemon gave me a functional battery indicator again.
You have just updated to Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) from 11.04 ..
Note: I did that too, on my netbook. I eventually gave up, and installed a new Ubuntu 11.10 instead.
I have a battery indicator, working correctly, showing percentage, etc.
There is an outstanding (unresolved) bug for this issue in LaunchPad.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mono/+bug/801180/comments/30
SUGGESTIONS: (in no particular order)
Change theme to (or away from) 'Radiance'. Make sure this is not an icon issue.
Purge and re-install indicator-power (as suggested by cprofitt).
Remove any revenants from (older) Unity, etc.
(get settings, for curiosity's sake)
gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist
(should look something like:)
['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp=-dbus-service', 'Update-notifier']
(clear whitelist)
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
Try an alternative monitor package ..
How to add a detailed battery indicator to Ubuntu
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/02/battery-applet-status-ubuntu/
Alt + Right Click over the bar, so you will can configure/add/move applets. With the complete indicators miniaplication, come the battery indicator. That work for me with ubuntu 12.04.
Fighting with this issue, I have found that the proprietary driver modules for the NVIDIA graphic card, were indeed messing up with the battery icon, with the volup and voldown function, and with the shutoff button in the keyboard.
I simply deactivated these controllers and it came back to normal. Go figure. Cheers.
Battery indicator should run with the Unity Panel, but sometimes is inhibited for strange reasons.
You can try to force the daemon to run, writing gnome-settings-daemon in the terminal.
If it works, and you see the battery indicator in the panel, you can add the command to the Startup Applications.
How do I start applications automatically on login?
It work great for me, I hope it can help you!
I had this issue for a long time.
acer aspire 5553 on ubuntu 13.04. I had no battery under /proc/acpi/battery or /sys/class/power_supply
Just updating the linux kernel to latest 3.11.1 solved it. Maybe this might help many.
Before anything else try restarting the power applet with a Hang-Up signal.
pkill --signal HUP indicator-power && echo $?
A status code of 0 should be displayed.
