The battery indicator in Unity panel not showing up

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Published on 2012-05-07T18:47:52Z Indexed on 2012/06/07 10:48 UTC
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I installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Wubi. Well after being completely dazzled with the amount of free content in the Software Centre, I decided to go deeper and start messing with settings. Well after changing the screen brightness the highest level I noticed that there wasn't an indicator for how much battery was left in my laptop. I looked up online on got 2 suggestions on how to fix:

  • Right click on the Unity panel and add an indicator
  • Set it to show in the power settings menu.

Well I did both when I right click at the top menu nothing comes up and setting it to show does nothing either. Then I tried installing something in the Software Centre. I got something but when I activated it it said I had 0% power left even though I was charging and at %100 according the Light in the front of my laptop. So now I'm thinking that it doesn't even recognise my computer as a laptop which is weird because in the display settings it says my screen size is set to laptop.

How can I install it?

I don't know what version it is other then Ubuntu 12.04 and no matter what the icon does not appear with the

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