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
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
Since upgrading from lucid to 10.10 maverick, gnome-power-manager (icon) does not display remaining battery percentage on my laptops as I was used to and which is the only possibility as the hardware is already a bit of age and does not support this time estimation (HP Omnibook XE3-GC, built around 2001). Instead, it wants to display the estimated remaining time which cannot be calculated, therefore on a left click it says in German "wird ermittelt...", which could be something like "being estimated" or "being calculated" in English.
gconf-editor provides a setting for disabling the time-based display of information, but it does not seem to work - percentage does not become available on tool tip / left click.
All information about the battery is present when opening the detailed dialog, so it seems to be just a problem about selecting the value for display.
Please make the percentage available again, at least according to the gconf-editor option or based on a mechanism that disables time estimation as soon as it detects to be impossible.
Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
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.