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High discharge rate, Ubuntu 13.4 gnome 3.6 [duplicate]

I have Dell Inspiron N5010 Core i5 with ATI Radeon 5xxx and 4 GB RAM I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 with Windows 7 and updated to gnome 3.6 then updated to Ubuntu 13.4 And I'm using the default driver ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 upowerd crash [closed]

My recently-upgraded Lenovo Thinkpad T420 is running Ubuntu 12.10 mostly fine. However, I've noticed that on wake from sleep, the gnome-power-manager applet that shows battery status fails to update. ...
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Battery information on Fluxbox

How can I get my battery info (percentages) on Fluxbox? I've heard of the gnome-power-manager, and wanted to use that, but there seems to be a problem... $ gnome-power-manager gnome-power-manager: ...
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Unity 3D vs Unity 2D vs Gnome shell for battery life (resource use)

I'm currently trying to choose between Gnome shell and Unity 2D/3D for my Ubuntu installation on my laptop (I don't really like the dull look of some environments like xfce). Of the three, which uses ...
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my top menu consists of two bluetooth but no battery indicator

It looks as figure above. I right-click on the blank of topbar, but no any menu or configuration appears. In system settings -> power, I have turned 'Show battery status on menu bar' on('When ...
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Battery indicator missing in gnome classic

I had upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 from Ubuntu 11.10 and I am also using gnome classic. But the Battery indicator is Missing in the taskbar. So i followed the link ...
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How can I make the battery icon appear in my gnome-3 panel only when charging or discharging?

I am using ubuntu 11.10. There was an option for the same in 11.04. I found a suggestion listed here. Unfortunately, it does'nt work. $ GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set ...
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Gnome Shell - Battery only charges to about 90-91%

In Gnome Shell, I am charging my battery but it won't go past 91% at the most. It sometimes gets stuck at 90 as well. Its very annoying and I want to know if there is a fix for this...
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How can I see more battery info when using Gnome shell?

I've been using Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 11.10 and I've been fairly satisfied. One thing that I really wish was different though is the battery icon. I can't tell by glancing at it what my battery ...
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Does using Screenlets affect battery life on a notebook?

I just read about Screenlets. I was wondering if using Screenlets will affect the battery life of my notebook?
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GNOME Shell Battery Icon missing [closed]

I am just wondering..... Why is there no battery icon? It's hard to work without any battery status around. I am using Maverick, and the GNOME3 files came from git.