I can confirm all the symptoms on my ibook G4 (powerpc) laptop. Except in my case the panel icon is not shown unless I select 'Always show icon' from preferences and the icon is always of battery regardless of power state.
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- gnome-power-manger does not work in karmic ppc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458004 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs