{"id":7278,"date":"2017-10-27T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2017-10-27T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:57:37","slug":"show-battery-percentage-ubuntu-17-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/show-battery-percentage-ubuntu-17-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Tip: Show Battery Percentage in Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After moving to Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome Desktop, you may find that some handy indicator applet switches has gone.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is that neither &#8216;Settings&#8217; nor &#8216;Gnome Tweaks&#8217; show options to enable battery percentage in top panel.<\/p>\n<p>Also there&#8217;s no options to configure the date and time display settings in the center of the top panel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/battery-percentage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1. To show battery percentage in Gnome panel, install <b>dconf editor<\/b> from Ubuntu Software.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dconf-editor-gnomesoftware-600x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dconf-editor-gnomesoftware-600x207.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dconf-editor-gnomesoftware-450x155.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dconf-editor-gnomesoftware.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Then launch it and navigate to <b>org -> gnome -> desktop -> interface<\/b>, scroll down and turn on the switch for &#8216;show-battery-percentage&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>There you can also set clock time format, show or hide date and seconds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/show-battery-percentage-600x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/show-battery-percentage-600x315.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/show-battery-percentage-450x236.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/show-battery-percentage-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/show-battery-percentage.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After moving to Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome Desktop, you may find that some handy indicator applet switches has gone. One of them is that neither &#8216;Settings&#8217; nor &#8216;Gnome Tweaks&#8217; show options to enable battery percentage in top panel. Also there&#8217;s no options to configure the date and time display settings in the center of the top [&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":[1120,1468],"class_list":["post-7278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-battery","tag-ubuntu-17-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278","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=7278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}