Solved. After thinking about this a bit I went to System/Preferences/Power Management and there is a check box to display all the time or during charging etc.
-- Laptop battery icon disappears https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179627 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
