Battery icon occasionally missing

[Slade Watkins]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 9:22 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 16:07, Andre Tann <atann at alphasrv.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > on my Ubuntu 20.10 laptop, from time to time the battery icon next to
> > the clock is missing. After reboot, the icon is back, but not always.
> >
> > I cannot find a way to "start" this icon, which is, the program that
> > shows this battery symbol.
> >
> > Any ideas how I can do this?
>
> I think 20.10 is out of support now, and it's time to upgrade to 21.04
> or better still keep going to 21.10.

Yes, EOL as of July 2021. Definitely time to upgrade.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

>
> There is a setting for the battery icon to only show it when it's
> discharging. Perhaps that's what you need? I think it's in Settings
> somewhere -- I am sorry I can't be more specific but I don't use GNOME
> myself.

I'm also unfamiliar as I stopped using GNOME awhile back, but this
might help? https://askubuntu.com/questions/946711/how-do-i-show-battery-percentage-in-gnome-panel-without-using-any-extension

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Let me know. I'm willing to dig deeper into this if need be.

Best,
             -slade