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    Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    I have updated to Precise 12.04 and am using Gnome and cannot get the battery level indicator to show in the panel. Using System Tools > System Settings > Power allows me to select "show battery status in the menu bar" from the drop down, but the setting I select will not stick. It's quite difficult with a laptop and no obvious battery indicator - how do I get my selection to stick, please?

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    Bob

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    Re: Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    When you change the selection to show did you log out or restart of restart the gnome shell. I have found that when something doesn't work, reloading the gnome shell makes it work. ALT + F2, type r as the command and run.

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    Re: Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    Quote Originally Posted by cromat View Post
    When you change the selection to show did you log out or restart of restart the gnome shell. I have found that when something doesn't work, reloading the gnome shell makes it work. ALT + F2, type r as the command and run.
    Yes - several times, but it doesn't make any difference. If you try to make a selection, close the program and immediately re-open it, the selected item has already disappeared, so re-starting won't save the change anyway. It's obviously something to do with Gnome (it works fine in Unity) but I've no idea how to fix it - if indeed it can be fixed.

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    Re: Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    Ok, fair enough. Which version of gnome shell?

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    Re: Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    Quote Originally Posted by cromat View Post
    Ok, fair enough. Which version of gnome shell?
    Gnome 3.4.1. I've tried logging in and out and changing from "Gnome Classic" to "Gnome" and "Gnome Classic (No Effects)" - that makes no difference.

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    Re: Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    Do you get anything asking for a crash report?

    http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-b...msg364049.html

    It looks like there are multiple bugs reporting to the Debian base about this.

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    Re: Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    Quote Originally Posted by cromat View Post
    Do you get anything asking for a crash report?

    http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-b...msg364049.html

    It looks like there are multiple bugs reporting to the Debian base about this.
    No crashes in Ubuntu - it just won't stay selected. I haven't seen any problems with Debian, but then they haven't reached Gnome 3 yet.

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    Re: Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    I have encountered this same problem. This was on an upgrade from 11.10. Maybe it does not occur with a fresh install?

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    Re: Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    No, I'm having the same problem as well and I did a clean install of 12.04. Same problem as described above.

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    Re: Precise 12.04 Battery Indicator

    do you have indicator-power installed
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