How to show/hide the battery icon?

Written on February 25, 2008
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I got annoyed of the “battery is broken” warning message so I changed the settings to only show the battery icon when the battery is critically low. But it’s like it’s not working as it should. My eee pc just shutdown by itself without any warning after a couple of hours when unplugged. I have been searching for this since the day I disabled the battery icon to show on the system tray. Glad I finally discovered how to do it. And it’s very simple. I’m a total noob.

Application > Settings > Screensaver Settings > Power Management > General tab

    Available options

  • Only display an icon when battery power is critically low
  • Only display an icon when charging or discharging
  • Only display an icon when battery is present
  • Always display an icon

I believe the 4th option is set by default. I have tried the first option, it did not work as I expected.

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One Comment to “How to show/hide the battery icon?”

  1. eeeXubuntu: Unreliable battery info | Asus EEE How To? Says:
    March 1st, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    [...] I set the battery icon appear on the system tray and I was kept informed of how long will my battery last. It still have [...]

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