I usually install Caffeine indicator to prevent my machine from going to sleep, but I prefer not to have it. I don't really like having to many indicators.

Xubuntu/xfce has implemented a screensaver locker from activating on the Power applet called Presentation Mode.

I think it would be a neat idea to have it on eOS

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When the battery is fully charged and still on AC power, the indicator shows a green icon. Allow this to be user-dismissed by clicking on the indicator to "confirm" and change the icon to white.

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The users plug says I have guest session disabled, but the indicator still let's me switch to it. It should at least be hidden.

Easily reproducible by scrubbing the indicators

The icon is now misaligned as per image.

The power indicator is not showing on start of my laptop, but after I plug in the charger, it comes back and works properly.

It annoying because I can't know when I'm going to run out of power, and makes the laptop un-portable.

How can I debug this?

Launchpad Details: #LP1668970 Litash - 2017-03-01 12:54:09 +0000

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My laptop's battery is broken and disconnected. When plugging in my phone via USB to my laptop, the indicaor icon reflects the battery status of the phone, which is confusing.

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Battery status is not displayed correctly

Launchpad Details: #LP1622334 Artur Motyka - 2016-09-11 13:23:29 +0000

On some systems the backlight slider in the battery popover menu could be not available because the GPU driver lacks support of /sys/class/backlight/interface especially this could happen with NVIDIA proprietary driver.

This could be OK, because the backlight can be controlled using xbacklight utility.
The user can bind it's media keys to control the backlight (which is bit hacky on eOS because we can't set one key binding in System Settings app) and can live without the default controller.

What I want to highlight is when the slider isn't showed in it's place there are two horizontal lines left. First one usually sits above the slider and last under the slider. This makes the UI bit ugly and it gives the user a feel that there is still something missing.

Can this be fixed in way that when the slider isn't available just don't show one of the horizontal lines, probably the first one? I mean completely hide the backlight block with the opening horizontal line?

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/AUsCI9M.png

if gnome-power-statistics is available, each "menu item" should link to its page so that more detailed information can be viewed.

Launchpad Details: #LP1458387 Daniel Fore - 2015-05-24 20:22:37 +0000

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It's only in Power indicator. See screenshot:

I'm using Elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki. I wanted to have seconds and week numbers in the date indicator, so I cloned the wingpanel-indicator-datetime repo, made my edits and all was fine.

Now since 2018 (apparently, because it was working fine before my holidays until December 22nd), the whole wingpanel is unresponsive and very slow. When I pkill wingpanel it slowly reappears (like in 30 seconds) and it is very slow or even not responsive at all. For example right now the time shown is 10:05 but it is 10:07, so it's been stuck for at least 2 minutes.

I reverted my local wingpanel-indicator-datetime to master and installed again, it didn't work (though my edits are indeed gone).
I also reverted to system defaults with sudo apt install --reinstall wingpanel wingpanel-indicator-datetime but it's still not working properly (even after killing it).

Am I the only one experimenting this? How can I at least revert to a proper default working behavior, or better how can I run again my edited indicator without the wingpanel lagging like crazy?

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Not sure why, but my power indicator shows 99% battery all the time. If you click the indicator, it displays a second (I suspect the true battery) that is discharging. It's very confusing. Using a Lenovo Thinkpad X240. I attached a screenshot to display what I mean.

Launchpad Details: #LP1624946 mjpoetic - 2016-09-18 23:34:23 +0000

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After #57 is closed, the indicator will finally have scroll on the indicator icon. However, neither the icon scroll neither the scroller scroll can handle smooth scrolling gracefully. Currently, #57 increments the brightness 10% for every scroll event, which means a small amount of smooth scroll can lead to a big change.

To support smooth scrolling, the handler needs to check if the event is smooth and then change the brightness value with a value scaled by the delta_y

It defaults to 0 and sliding it does nothing

Battery indicator is showing in a Desktop PC with no batteries.

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I have a wireless mouse that uses a small USB dongle. While the dongle is plugged in, but the mouse is turned off, it reports "0%" battery.

Perhaps instead of reporting 0% battery, we should report that the mouse is turned off?

Launchpad Details: #LP1458385 Daniel Fore - 2015-05-24 20:19:22 +0000

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My laptop has two batteries, and Elementary displays the 'main' (internal) battery as the percentage in the panel. GNOME displays the average percentage in its quick settings area.

Similarly, the external battery stops discharging at 5% and should probably not display a time remaining estimation as it isn't discharging.

My laptop is a Thinkpad X240 if that is of interest.

Currently, I get like 5 messages that my battery is low. One at 20%, 15%, 10%, and like 2 when its critically. Arguably, only one of these if any are needed, as the batty indicator clearly shows when the battery is low, both by becoming a red when the battery is relatively low, and fully red when with an exclamation mark when the battery is critically low.

There should only by one OSD-notify alert: when the icon turns to the exclamation. I believe that's 10% battery life.

Launchpad Details: #LP794321 Avi Romanoff - 2011-06-07 23:51:24 +0000

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My Desktop PC doesn't run on Battery, but the mouse I use does.
The battery icon for the mouse is only shown on the lock-screen (and the percentage keeps on calculating)
After I logged in the indicator is gone, and cannot be restored via the settings.
Guess that this is a feature?

It doesn't work after trying to install an external application (Shell Script). The script opened and then closed suddenly.

Launchpad Details: #LP1593954 Idesmi - 2016-06-18 11:41:48 +0000

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For Example (maya-calendar):

Running licensecheck on the maya-calendar sources reports that some of the files which include licensing information include the wrong FSF address.

 $ licensecheck -r . | awk -F ": " '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr

    163 No copyright UNKNOWN
    101 UNKNOWN
     38 GPL (v3 or later)
      6 LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
      4 No copyright GENERATED FILE
      4 BSD (2 clause)
      3 No copyright GPL (v3 or later)
      2 LGPL (v2.1 or later)

The affected files are:

 $ licensecheck -r . | grep incorrect
  ./core/Backends/Backend.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./core/Backends/BackendsManager.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./core/Backends/LocalBackend.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./core/Backends/PlacementWidget.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./plugins/CalDAV/CalDAVBackend.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)
  ./plugins/Google/GoogleBackend.vala: LGPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address)

Package checkers / linters (for example the compulsory fedora one - rpmlint) complain very verbosely about this.

Launchpad Details: #LP1653413 Fabio Valentini - 2017-01-01 11:16:13 +0000

I've 2 batteries in my laptop and the panel icon only shows the state of the first battery, which is always discharged before the second one, this is inaccurate to the entire power state of the system.

Suggested solution: use an average both/all batteries to get a "system level" and use that to show a single icon to reflect that state.

Launchpad Details: #LP1574418 Sam Hewitt - 2016-04-25 01:01:07 +0000

My original Dualshock 3 controller is misrecognized as a wireless keyboard by the applet.

Launchpad Details: #LP1624091 Adam Nagy - 2016-09-15 20:08:38 +0000

I have been using elementary OS for a few months now and the wingpanel always worked correctly and well. A while ago, I got myself a pair of Logitech devices (mouse and keyboard) that connect to my computer through their unifying receiver. Since Logitech doesn't have its official software for Linux, I installed Solaar. Shortly after, the wingpanel began to freeze very often so I then removed solaar using sudo apt-get purge solaar. The problem is that even after removing solaar and restarting, the unresponsive wingpanel problem persists. Note that this problem only happens when the Logitech receiver is plugged in. I'm not sure if this problem is related with Solaar or not.

I have narrowed down the problem to the power indicator. Uninstalling it fixes the issue, but obviously I'd prefer to keep it and use my Logitech devices if possible. I believe the problem is due to the extra battery indicators on the dropdown showing battery levels of my mouse and keyboard.

Please let me know if you need any more information. I'll add a screenshot of the dropdown power menu with 2 extra indicators if wingpanel stays responsive for long enough.

Launchpad Details: #LP1650771 Arsalan Ahmad - 2016-12-17 16:19:42 +0000

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Typical current Thinkpad laptops have two batteries, a standard one which is easily removable, and an internal one to make hot swap possible and extend the overall battery life.

% upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               LGC
  model:                45N1113
  serial:               8978
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              ven. 09 févr. 2018 22:09:52 CET (117 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               fully-charged
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              19,37 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         19,37 Wh
    energy-full-design:  23,48 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    voltage:             12,636 V
    percentage:          100%
    capacity:            82,4957%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charged-symbolic'

% upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1
  native-path:          BAT1
  vendor:               SANYO
  model:                45N1767
  serial:               3319
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              ven. 09 févr. 2018 22:11:52 CET (7 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               discharging
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              24,19 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         37,46 Wh
    energy-full-design:  47,52 Wh
    energy-rate:         9,522 W
    voltage:             11,336 V
    time to empty:       2,5 hours
    percentage:          64%
    capacity:            78,83%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-full-symbolic'
  History (charge):
    1518210712	64,000	discharging
  History (rate):
    1518210712	9,522	discharging

Major DE like Gnome and KDE handle it well and show only a battery indicator with the agregated remaining power.

The wingpanel indicator shows two icons instead, and the one that shows all the time is wrong (like not representing the real power status).

Because every other indicator does a thing on middle click

When I try to scroll brightnes slider in power indicator, It responds with only two positions of slider: min or max.
I believe that it should change with a specified step.

I've been experiencing a problem that looks like this:

1. Battery is at XX% (can be any percentage, but always double-digits, let's say 31%)
2. I start a task that is intensive on the processor (converting video, playing Football Manager)
3. Battery jumps to 0% and Low Battery notification is shown
4. Computer will turn off (Suspend?) within 10-20 seconds of this notification
5. I plug in the laptop to power
6. Battery starts charging from the initial XX% (ie, 31%)

Since plugging the laptop into power starts charging from the original battery percentage, and not 1%, I guess there is an issue with calculating the power consumption?

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No need to constantly show the 100% on the wingpanel, when the device is fully charged and still plugged in.

Launchpad Details: #LP1514118 Kristjan Vool - 2015-11-07 21:47:43 +0000

Once i'm home i use my laptop with a larger screen, and the screen laptop is off; The Power indicator still shows up the brightness indicator even if it's can not be configured.

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Here's a bug I've noticed just now in Loki 0.4. Possibly a one-time thing, but might be worth looking at:

1. Disabled "Show battery percentage" in the popup menu for the battery indicator.
2. Battery indicator kept saying "Calculating" and the indicator icon was half-full, ergo I thought that I still had power.
3. Laptop shuts down.
4. I start it back up, seeing that the battery icon is still "Calculating"
5. I turned "show battery percentage" on and off again, and the correct percentage and battery status was shown, instantly going from "Calcuating" to "2%"...

Strange.

P.S A little suggestion now that I'm here -- Maybe add a "Disable touchpad when mouse connected" option to Switchboard mouse settings? KDE had it, and it was really useful... Especially now that I have to use a custom script to do it on Loki, as I keep touching my touchpad while typing... 😞

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I'm using a thinkpad t430s with elementary OS 0.4. I have two batteries installed. Primary, and a smaller peripheral battery in my bay. eOS recognizes both and shows their percentages separately when I click the power icon. But it only uses the primary battery when 'show percentage' is enabled. I.e. battery power will remain at 100% until the secondary battery has fully depleted. Afterward the battery percentage will reflect the current state of the primary battery.

Launchpad Details: #LP1647127 Sam Levin - 2016-12-04 06:33:20 +0000

Is it possible to add a "Battery Charged" notification?

Launchpad Details: #LP1455894 Ash - 2015-05-17 11:16:24 +0000

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There is no way to hide when there are many users

The built-in dimming function don't work on OLED screens, they handle it slightly different.

This works for OLED and should somehow be implemented into Elementary.

xrandr --output eDP1 --brightness 0 # fully dimmed
xrandr --output eDP1 --brightness 0.5 # half dimmed
xrandr --output eDP1 --brightness 1 # no dimming

The power indicator tries to calculate the battery level for a wired keyboard w/o battery.

Launchpad Details: #LP1650150 Morgan Risch - 2016-12-15 06:51:45 +0000

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Using the daily icon set. Opening 24/brightness and symbolic/brightness icons doesn't reveal anything out of the ordinary, as the icons look as they should, with the being only 15x15.

I found a number of users with this same bug on Stack Exchange: http://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/7680/wingpanel-not-responding-loki (unlike the original poster, I did not install Dropbox—only major install was the Google Chrome repo and app)

I returned from system sleep to find the menu bar gone. When I Ctrl+Alt+Del, I get a notification that wingpanel is not responding, but no feedback if I opt for force quitting it. New Loki install, Intel integrated graphics on Gigabyte GA-H110M-A motherboard.

"sudo killall wingpanel" has no immediate change, but shows a small, white "wiping"-style movement in the top right, like when a notification closes. Sometimes the menu bar restores, but none of the icons or Applications menu respond. (Once I saw the bottom of the message bubble-style popout come out of "Applications", with the triangle part of the bubble pointing to Applications, but all but the bottom white margin of the bubble off the top of the screen. Eventually, I get another notice about how wingpanel is not responding. Force quitting starts the same process anew. I'm unable to get a working menu bar even after rebooting.

Update: The menu bar does become functional again, but only after a notification that I am connected to wired ethernet (even though I haven't touched the computer or installed anything to prompt the change). It quickly becomes unresponsive again.

Launchpad Details: #LP1623793 wolf - 2016-09-15 06:04:52 +0000

I think, there should be able to control screen brightness by scrolling on power indicator, as it is now in sound indicator with volume control

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When the battery is full, the indicator still shows 3hours left.
(The screenshot was taken at 99%, but the problems persists at 100%)
Expected behaviour: showing 1 minute left at 99% OR not showing time when battery is 100% charged and charger connected.

OS: Loki B1

Launchpad Details: #LP1594213 Philippe - 2016-06-20 01:39:29 +0000

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When first plugged in, the indicator and dropdown show that I'm on battery power, and how much time remains. When unplugged, it then shows that I'm charging and how long left until full. If left to sit for a minute so that the % goes either up or down, it then shows the correct status. When unplugging or plugging in again, it reverts to the incorrect status until once again the % changes on its own. This only happens before the first change in either direction.

This is on a 2012 MacBook Air, latest version of 0.4.1 at time of posting this.

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On 0.4.1 Loki, recently reinstalled the OS on my laptop. The power tab shows a mouse that doesn't exist, not merely unplugged. I have tried plugging a mouse in and unplugging, as well as rebooting the machine. I have tried reinstalling wingpanel and the power indicator, but this "mouse" sticks around. Here is an image to show the issue:

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Notifications about battery status ("You have 10 % left") wont be read 10 minutes later so they can be transient then they arent in the notification center.

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See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/backlight#External_Monitors

Would require testing, but it'd be awesome to be able to control supported external displays with the brightness slider.

Would need design to handle multiple displays.

I know there is a keyboard shortcut for this but not every user knows about it.
Adding a brightness slider for the display/monitor just as in the plug itself would be very nice.

Launchpad Details: #LP1503202 swizzle - 2015-10-06 09:33:00 +0000

If I use brightness keys while the popover is open, the slider doesn't update its value