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Battery detection in Xfce4

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#1 Sat, 2014-12-13 12:05
teachop
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In the Xfce4 desktop on my AMD laptop, the battery is not detected in the panel and I need help solving this. Xfce Power Manager is running. The ac is the only power source detected (Adapter is online). I have tried 3.1 and edge as well.

However my battery is seen by acpi (BAT0) according to dmesg. I can print out the status and information with:

$ sudo cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent
POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=BAT0
POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Full
POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1
POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion
POWER_SUPPLY_CYCLE_COUNT=0
POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN=10800000
POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW=12505000
POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_NOW=0
POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN=4094000
POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL=4094000
POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW=4094000
POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=100
POWER_SUPPLY_MODEL_NAME=Primary
POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURER=Hewlett-Packard
POWER_SUPPLY_SERIAL_NUMBER=39831 05/21/2011

Probably not related but the panel also lists the account as "Linux User" instead of using the proper login name.