This bug is upstream bug #334212 (Gnome, not Debian). I'll attach a patch. By the way, it's not my patch, but an adaptation of upstream patch id=63596 from Paul Betts. By the way, my patch doesn't update any changelogs. Please refer to upstream patch.
The problem is due to HAL reporting that the battery is neither charging nor discharging, so the system chooses the wrong icon to display. What this patch does is taking the charging/discharging value from the AC power status, if there's AC power it assumes the system is being charged and if not it assumes it's being discharged. It only does this under the uncertain circumstance that produces the error (not charging or discharging). Upstream bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334212 Upstream patch: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334212#c28 -- Battery discharging notification icon invisible when starting with AC disconnected https://launchpad.net/bugs/36129 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
