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I need help with the battery Icon

I have a Toshiba Satellite L645D running Ubuntu 12.10 and it seems like Ubuntu like some other distros (Nadia, Debian) won't recognize my battery and I don't know the reason for that, it won't show ...
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How to access gnome-power-manager in Lubuntu?

I have decided to replace Xfce4-power-manager with gnome-power-manager in Lubuntu 12.04 (didn't knew how to disable the tray icon in fact), which I did using synaptic, and now it shows: But ...
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reduce Screen brightness in battery mode automatically

KDE and XFCE4 has a program to adjust the screen brightness automatically in battery mode to a preset value. How can i set the same with Unity ( or Gnome3 )?
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Power cable status not recognized on a Samsung NP530U3B-A01 laptop

I have a Samsung NP530U3B-A01 with Ubuntu 12.04 running Gnome-Shell. Basically it runs pretty well apart from the problem that plugging or unplugging the power-cable is not recognized by the system. ...
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No Battery Indicator in panel 12.04

On ac power or battery power, I cannot get a battery status indicator to show in the 12.04 panel. I have tried: 1) Checked the Power Settings and battery is set to show all the time. 2) sudo ...
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Power management does not recognize removal of power supply! [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Battery management doesn't recognize removal of power supply I have a Lenovo Ideapad Z370 with Ubuntu 11.10 and the battery status indicator shows wrong information. ...
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Battery indicator shows the wrong battery

I recently bought a secondary battery for my Dell Latitude D620 that fits into the CD drive. There are a couple problems: First, it drains the secondary battery first. I'm OK with that, but when it ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS fails to recognize my laptop as laptop [closed]

This is probably going to sound like a rookie question, but I have never ever experienced such issue. I had Ubuntu 11.10 without Unity installed on my old laptop Thinkpad Z60m. Few days ago, I got ...
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Battery power indicator bug and high power consumption on 12.04 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Battery drain on ubuntu is fast I have a Samsung NP530U3B-A01: - intel core i5 2467M - 4gb ram - intel hd 3000 - 500gb hard drive It's dual boot with windows 7. ...
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I have an extra power icon in my menu bar. Any idea why? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Two battery indicator symbols, how do I get rid of one? It's a notification area icon (I've set the systray whitelist to 'all'.) It's completely superfluous, ...
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Other devices in the battery power indicator?

Every now and then, I encounter some mention of other devices being shown in the power indicator. For example, along with the laptop battery, listing the battery level for an iPod being charged over ...