{"id":3637,"date":"2014-07-17T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2014-07-17T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:48:33","slug":"ubuntu-14-04-show-battery-percentage-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/ubuntu-14-04-show-battery-percentage-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 14.04 Tip: Show Battery Percentage &#038; Time Remaining On Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/battery-icon2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/battery-icon2.png\" alt=\"Show battery percentage and time remaining\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/battery-icon2.png 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/battery-icon2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This quick tip is going to show you how to display your laptop&#8217;s battery percentage and time remaining to Ubuntu 14.04 panel. So that your system tray area battery icon will look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/battery-percentage-time-remaining.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/battery-percentage-time-remaining.jpg\" alt=\"Ubuntu 14.04 show battery percentage and time remaining\" width=\"480\" height=\"131\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/battery-percentage-time-remaining.jpg 480w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/battery-percentage-time-remaining-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This can be done easily by doing a little changes through <b>dconf Editor<\/b>, install it via Software Center if you don&#8217;t find it in application menu or Unity dash.<\/p>\n<p>1. Open dconf Editor. On the left side, navigate to <b>com -> canonical -> indicator -> power<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Check the boxes that say &#8220;show-time&#8221; and &#8220;show-percentage&#8221; on the right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dconf-editor-battery-setting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dconf-editor-battery-setting.jpg\" alt=\"dconf editor battery settings\" width=\"580\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dconf-editor-battery-setting.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dconf-editor-battery-setting-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. The changes take effect immediately.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tip is going to show you how to display your laptop&#8217;s battery percentage and time remaining to Ubuntu 14.04 panel. So that your system tray area battery icon will look like this: This can be done easily by doing a little changes through dconf Editor, install it via Software Center if you don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1120,855],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-battery","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}