mate-power-manager not showing battery tray icon after ubuntu 18.04 upgrade











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After upgrading to 18.04, the battery tray icon from mate-power-manager simply disappeared



As everyone can imagine, a tray icon showing the battery load level is extremely important on laptops



How can i log this issue and share information here? What else should i also try, and which alternate lightweight tools should i try that also shows a battery tray icon?



(i’m mostly using AwesomeWM, and replaced most of the Gnome3 tools with their Mate equivalents, so i would struggle a lot to use gnome-power-manager, specially if it will force me to have those whole Gnome3-related packages installed as dependency)



Thanks in advance!



guest@macbookair:~$ mate-power-manager 

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.674: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:51:14: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.674: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:51:14: Expected a string.

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.675: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:129:14: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.675: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:129:14: Expected a string.

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.679: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:845:21: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.679: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:845:21: Expected a string.
TI:08:35:25 TH:0x55ef43ac5560 FI:gpm-main.c FN:main,246
- Power Manager is already running in this session.
Traceback:
mate-power-manager(+0x19dff) [0x55ef433f0dff]
mate-power-manager(+0x88a8) [0x55ef433df8a8]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x7f2879566b97]
mate-power-manager(+0x8b0a) [0x55ef433dfb0a]
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  • You should report bug to bugs.launchpad.net with apport-bug mate-power-manager, not here. On my Asustek laptop icon is in place.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 26 at 8:14










  • Also it seems that mate-power-manager should not launch as you tried. It started automatically (see Power Manager is already running in this session in your question). On both 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS I have battery icon in tray and the same message if I start MATE Power Manager from terminal. So there is no problem here. User-oriented GUIs have other names - mate-power-statistics and mate-power-preferences. If you need traditional desktop experience you can install MATE DE with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 26 at 8:34












  • the problem is that, not only i have no idea where from mate-power-manager got “already” running (from startupitems.sh script, that runs always when AwesomeWM starts ), as i have no idea why the icon tray is not being displayed - xomf.com/csdnh - and you know where from can we find documentation explaining how apport-bug mate-power-manager at bugs.launchpad.net works? thanks!
    – Paulo Silva
    Apr 26 at 9:28












  • This solved it for me: askubuntu.com/questions/1031950/…
    – Mikael Kurula
    Nov 17 at 20:24















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After upgrading to 18.04, the battery tray icon from mate-power-manager simply disappeared



As everyone can imagine, a tray icon showing the battery load level is extremely important on laptops



How can i log this issue and share information here? What else should i also try, and which alternate lightweight tools should i try that also shows a battery tray icon?



(i’m mostly using AwesomeWM, and replaced most of the Gnome3 tools with their Mate equivalents, so i would struggle a lot to use gnome-power-manager, specially if it will force me to have those whole Gnome3-related packages installed as dependency)



Thanks in advance!



guest@macbookair:~$ mate-power-manager 

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.674: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:51:14: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.674: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:51:14: Expected a string.

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.675: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:129:14: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.675: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:129:14: Expected a string.

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.679: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:845:21: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.679: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:845:21: Expected a string.
TI:08:35:25 TH:0x55ef43ac5560 FI:gpm-main.c FN:main,246
- Power Manager is already running in this session.
Traceback:
mate-power-manager(+0x19dff) [0x55ef433f0dff]
mate-power-manager(+0x88a8) [0x55ef433df8a8]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x7f2879566b97]
mate-power-manager(+0x8b0a) [0x55ef433dfb0a]
guest@macbookair:~$









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  • You should report bug to bugs.launchpad.net with apport-bug mate-power-manager, not here. On my Asustek laptop icon is in place.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 26 at 8:14










  • Also it seems that mate-power-manager should not launch as you tried. It started automatically (see Power Manager is already running in this session in your question). On both 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS I have battery icon in tray and the same message if I start MATE Power Manager from terminal. So there is no problem here. User-oriented GUIs have other names - mate-power-statistics and mate-power-preferences. If you need traditional desktop experience you can install MATE DE with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 26 at 8:34












  • the problem is that, not only i have no idea where from mate-power-manager got “already” running (from startupitems.sh script, that runs always when AwesomeWM starts ), as i have no idea why the icon tray is not being displayed - xomf.com/csdnh - and you know where from can we find documentation explaining how apport-bug mate-power-manager at bugs.launchpad.net works? thanks!
    – Paulo Silva
    Apr 26 at 9:28












  • This solved it for me: askubuntu.com/questions/1031950/…
    – Mikael Kurula
    Nov 17 at 20:24













up vote
2
down vote

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up vote
2
down vote

favorite











After upgrading to 18.04, the battery tray icon from mate-power-manager simply disappeared



As everyone can imagine, a tray icon showing the battery load level is extremely important on laptops



How can i log this issue and share information here? What else should i also try, and which alternate lightweight tools should i try that also shows a battery tray icon?



(i’m mostly using AwesomeWM, and replaced most of the Gnome3 tools with their Mate equivalents, so i would struggle a lot to use gnome-power-manager, specially if it will force me to have those whole Gnome3-related packages installed as dependency)



Thanks in advance!



guest@macbookair:~$ mate-power-manager 

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.674: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:51:14: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.674: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:51:14: Expected a string.

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.675: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:129:14: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.675: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:129:14: Expected a string.

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.679: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:845:21: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.679: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:845:21: Expected a string.
TI:08:35:25 TH:0x55ef43ac5560 FI:gpm-main.c FN:main,246
- Power Manager is already running in this session.
Traceback:
mate-power-manager(+0x19dff) [0x55ef433f0dff]
mate-power-manager(+0x88a8) [0x55ef433df8a8]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x7f2879566b97]
mate-power-manager(+0x8b0a) [0x55ef433dfb0a]
guest@macbookair:~$









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After upgrading to 18.04, the battery tray icon from mate-power-manager simply disappeared



As everyone can imagine, a tray icon showing the battery load level is extremely important on laptops



How can i log this issue and share information here? What else should i also try, and which alternate lightweight tools should i try that also shows a battery tray icon?



(i’m mostly using AwesomeWM, and replaced most of the Gnome3 tools with their Mate equivalents, so i would struggle a lot to use gnome-power-manager, specially if it will force me to have those whole Gnome3-related packages installed as dependency)



Thanks in advance!



guest@macbookair:~$ mate-power-manager 

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.674: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:51:14: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.674: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:51:14: Expected a string.

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.675: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:129:14: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.675: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:129:14: Expected a string.

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.679: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:845:21: not a number

(mate-power-manager:574): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:35:25.679: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:845:21: Expected a string.
TI:08:35:25 TH:0x55ef43ac5560 FI:gpm-main.c FN:main,246
- Power Manager is already running in this session.
Traceback:
mate-power-manager(+0x19dff) [0x55ef433f0dff]
mate-power-manager(+0x88a8) [0x55ef433df8a8]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x7f2879566b97]
mate-power-manager(+0x8b0a) [0x55ef433dfb0a]
guest@macbookair:~$






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  • You should report bug to bugs.launchpad.net with apport-bug mate-power-manager, not here. On my Asustek laptop icon is in place.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 26 at 8:14










  • Also it seems that mate-power-manager should not launch as you tried. It started automatically (see Power Manager is already running in this session in your question). On both 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS I have battery icon in tray and the same message if I start MATE Power Manager from terminal. So there is no problem here. User-oriented GUIs have other names - mate-power-statistics and mate-power-preferences. If you need traditional desktop experience you can install MATE DE with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 26 at 8:34












  • the problem is that, not only i have no idea where from mate-power-manager got “already” running (from startupitems.sh script, that runs always when AwesomeWM starts ), as i have no idea why the icon tray is not being displayed - xomf.com/csdnh - and you know where from can we find documentation explaining how apport-bug mate-power-manager at bugs.launchpad.net works? thanks!
    – Paulo Silva
    Apr 26 at 9:28












  • This solved it for me: askubuntu.com/questions/1031950/…
    – Mikael Kurula
    Nov 17 at 20:24


















  • You should report bug to bugs.launchpad.net with apport-bug mate-power-manager, not here. On my Asustek laptop icon is in place.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 26 at 8:14










  • Also it seems that mate-power-manager should not launch as you tried. It started automatically (see Power Manager is already running in this session in your question). On both 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS I have battery icon in tray and the same message if I start MATE Power Manager from terminal. So there is no problem here. User-oriented GUIs have other names - mate-power-statistics and mate-power-preferences. If you need traditional desktop experience you can install MATE DE with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 26 at 8:34












  • the problem is that, not only i have no idea where from mate-power-manager got “already” running (from startupitems.sh script, that runs always when AwesomeWM starts ), as i have no idea why the icon tray is not being displayed - xomf.com/csdnh - and you know where from can we find documentation explaining how apport-bug mate-power-manager at bugs.launchpad.net works? thanks!
    – Paulo Silva
    Apr 26 at 9:28












  • This solved it for me: askubuntu.com/questions/1031950/…
    – Mikael Kurula
    Nov 17 at 20:24
















You should report bug to bugs.launchpad.net with apport-bug mate-power-manager, not here. On my Asustek laptop icon is in place.
– N0rbert
Apr 26 at 8:14




You should report bug to bugs.launchpad.net with apport-bug mate-power-manager, not here. On my Asustek laptop icon is in place.
– N0rbert
Apr 26 at 8:14












Also it seems that mate-power-manager should not launch as you tried. It started automatically (see Power Manager is already running in this session in your question). On both 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS I have battery icon in tray and the same message if I start MATE Power Manager from terminal. So there is no problem here. User-oriented GUIs have other names - mate-power-statistics and mate-power-preferences. If you need traditional desktop experience you can install MATE DE with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop.
– N0rbert
Apr 26 at 8:34






Also it seems that mate-power-manager should not launch as you tried. It started automatically (see Power Manager is already running in this session in your question). On both 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS I have battery icon in tray and the same message if I start MATE Power Manager from terminal. So there is no problem here. User-oriented GUIs have other names - mate-power-statistics and mate-power-preferences. If you need traditional desktop experience you can install MATE DE with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop.
– N0rbert
Apr 26 at 8:34














the problem is that, not only i have no idea where from mate-power-manager got “already” running (from startupitems.sh script, that runs always when AwesomeWM starts ), as i have no idea why the icon tray is not being displayed - xomf.com/csdnh - and you know where from can we find documentation explaining how apport-bug mate-power-manager at bugs.launchpad.net works? thanks!
– Paulo Silva
Apr 26 at 9:28






the problem is that, not only i have no idea where from mate-power-manager got “already” running (from startupitems.sh script, that runs always when AwesomeWM starts ), as i have no idea why the icon tray is not being displayed - xomf.com/csdnh - and you know where from can we find documentation explaining how apport-bug mate-power-manager at bugs.launchpad.net works? thanks!
– Paulo Silva
Apr 26 at 9:28














This solved it for me: askubuntu.com/questions/1031950/…
– Mikael Kurula
Nov 17 at 20:24




This solved it for me: askubuntu.com/questions/1031950/…
– Mikael Kurula
Nov 17 at 20:24










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I hit this too. In my case the power manager was missing. It didn't show up in the settings. 'sudo apt-get install mate-power-manager-common' fixed this then you have to go into the settings->power-manager-preferences->on-battery-power and select. I also did several things on the indicator-power-service to get it working but installing the power manager may have fixed this too. Look at this response on the power indicator for help on that. Where he says "OnlyShowIn=Unity;XFCE;GNOME;" you need to add "MATE;" to get the battery indicator to show up.






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    I hit this too. In my case the power manager was missing. It didn't show up in the settings. 'sudo apt-get install mate-power-manager-common' fixed this then you have to go into the settings->power-manager-preferences->on-battery-power and select. I also did several things on the indicator-power-service to get it working but installing the power manager may have fixed this too. Look at this response on the power indicator for help on that. Where he says "OnlyShowIn=Unity;XFCE;GNOME;" you need to add "MATE;" to get the battery indicator to show up.






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      I hit this too. In my case the power manager was missing. It didn't show up in the settings. 'sudo apt-get install mate-power-manager-common' fixed this then you have to go into the settings->power-manager-preferences->on-battery-power and select. I also did several things on the indicator-power-service to get it working but installing the power manager may have fixed this too. Look at this response on the power indicator for help on that. Where he says "OnlyShowIn=Unity;XFCE;GNOME;" you need to add "MATE;" to get the battery indicator to show up.






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        I hit this too. In my case the power manager was missing. It didn't show up in the settings. 'sudo apt-get install mate-power-manager-common' fixed this then you have to go into the settings->power-manager-preferences->on-battery-power and select. I also did several things on the indicator-power-service to get it working but installing the power manager may have fixed this too. Look at this response on the power indicator for help on that. Where he says "OnlyShowIn=Unity;XFCE;GNOME;" you need to add "MATE;" to get the battery indicator to show up.






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        I hit this too. In my case the power manager was missing. It didn't show up in the settings. 'sudo apt-get install mate-power-manager-common' fixed this then you have to go into the settings->power-manager-preferences->on-battery-power and select. I also did several things on the indicator-power-service to get it working but installing the power manager may have fixed this too. Look at this response on the power indicator for help on that. Where he says "OnlyShowIn=Unity;XFCE;GNOME;" you need to add "MATE;" to get the battery indicator to show up.







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