GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 691322
Battery Status Icon Missing
Last modified: 2013-04-06 20:27:02 UTC
OS:Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome-Shell: 3.7.3 Battery Status Icon is missing
Yikes. You need to cherry-pick this patch: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=34a0c079de3fb9a36c90e22a858996d2e6799c75 Why can't we actually coordinate on stuff like this before releases? Sigh :(
Have no clue, Jasper :( At least later then never, right?
(In reply to comment #1) > Yikes. You need to cherry-pick this patch: > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=34a0c079de3fb9a36c90e22a858996d2e6799c75 > > Why can't we actually coordinate on stuff like this before releases? Sigh :( 3.7.3 is unstable. It is expected that you need unstable session components (gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-session, mutter, gnome-desktop, etc.) to run it. Anyway, not a bug, closing. (Btw, the name change was unnecessary, g-s-d owns both names, and talking to one or the other makes no difference)
(In reply to comment #3) > 3.7.3 is unstable. It is expected that you need unstable session components > (gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-session, mutter, gnome-desktop, etc.) to run it. gnome-settings-daemon 3.7.3 has the new bus name, but gnome-shell 3.7.3 checks for the old one. So our unstable tarballs are just broken, and nobody cares.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > 3.7.3 is unstable. It is expected that you need unstable session components > > (gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-session, mutter, gnome-desktop, etc.) to run it. > > gnome-settings-daemon 3.7.3 has the new bus name, but gnome-shell 3.7.3 checks > for the old one. So our unstable tarballs are just broken, and nobody cares. Oh, so I got this one reversed. But then this patch is totally irrelevant to the problem: new gnome-settings-daemon has both names, so it's indifferent which one the shell uses.
FWIW, I've also this problem with GNOME 3.8 from Debian experimental.
Ubuntu 13.04, Gnome3 PPA, Gnome 3.8.0.1. Still missing the battery indicator icon. If I purge the PPA and drop back to 3.6.3.1, I have the icon back. Re-add 3.8.0.1, no battery icon. I've been able to duplicate this on every system I've tried this combination on. Toshiba, Macbook Pro, Lenovo, Dell, and netbook. All missing the battery indicator when they have 13.04/Gnome3PPA/3.8.0.1 installed.
(In reply to comment #7) > Ubuntu 13.04, Gnome3 PPA, Gnome 3.8.0.1. Still missing the battery indicator > icon. Gnome3 PPA means https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3, right? It still has gnome-settings-daemon at 3.6.4, which would explain why it doesn't work for you. Mixing different versions of low-level core components like this is not something we support upstream - please contact the maintainers of that PPA instead.
Thank you, Florian. I solved my problem by switching to Arch =)
This has been fixed in the GNOME3 PPAs.