Battery Status in Bionic

[soupbowl]

Thank you, using that script works! It's just a shame it isn't shown in the top bar of mate like it used to be.

It seems in Bionic the battery is detected as an external keyboard battery rather than onboard, which the MATE indicator can't handle.

here's a dirty workaround. You can whack this in a 'Command' MATE applet. it'll show the battery percentage. Not on the indicator though.

Code:

cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/capacity

I recommend 2 min interval.