I have this same problem on my HP G62 laptop.
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Title:
maverick: gnome-power-manager does not display battery percentage on left
icon click, even
i have the same problem on a hp pavillion dv7 2070 eg.
The battery status can be displayed with (for instance) docky.
it worked in lucid
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After several charges and discharges and also switching my system to the
mainline kernel 2.6.36 (while still using the PPA version of the
_tools_, never used that older kernel there), I even experience a great
dynamic behaviour - it seems to be able to calculate a useful remaining
time under
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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maverick: gnome-power-manager does not display battery percentage on left icon
click, even when told so by gconf-editor - instead wants to calculate time even
if not possible
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663105
Hello Toni,
thanks for your comment - this works perfectly for me, the display shows
a usdeful percentage value again!
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maverick: gnome-power-manager does not display battery percentage on left icon
click, even when told so by gconf-editor - instead wants to calculate time even
if not
I found a a solution to this on another bug thread:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/629258/comments/78
https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/power
It still only shows percentage power remaining and not time remaining,
but this is good enough for me.
I have the same problem using a HP Pavilion tx2000 laptop. I can
confirm that the applet works correctly under Lucid, but will only
display Laptop battery (estimating ...) under Maverick.
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maverick: gnome-power-manager does not display battery percentage on left icon
click, even when told so
