No battery Status Indicator? (18.0.8.7 Feedback)

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Installation Details

Version: Kicksecure 18.0.8.7

Install medium: Sandisk USB (Baremetal no virtualization)

Partition format: ext4 (auto-formatted) + LUKS

Bios: Coreboot

I noticed that neither sysmaint nor user displayed a battery indicator. As a laptop user, that icon is essential when I’m installing software or applying updates.

Below are the terminal checks I ran:

[user ~]% systemctl --user status upower
Unit upower.service could not be found.
zsh: exit 4     systemctl --user status upower
[user ~]% qdbus org.lxqt.panel /org/lxqt/Panel1 
zsh: command not found: qdbus
zsh: exit 127   qdbus org.lxqt.panel /org/lxqt/Panel1
[user ~]% dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower --print-reply /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect

Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
zsh: exit 1     dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower --print-reply  
[user ~]%

First, I inspected the upower service in sysmaint. It reported “active but disabled,” so I enabled it sudo systemctl enable upower and rebooted into the user session.

Even after that, the power indicator remained elusive, and the panel lacked a battery widget entirely.

The workaround? I opened Power Management, ticked Enable Battery Watcher, and finally got something to appear at the top of the panel. It isn’t the classic battery icon, but it does show the charging state e.g., “Charging (100 %), to full 0 minute(s).” Unfortunately, the physical LED on my laptop is NOT green despite it saying 100 % with 0 minutes remaining lol

Any reason why the widget is not installed? Security reasons? Wayland issues?

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Sounds like a bug, will look into it.

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Bug found, fix created:

In the mean time, the workaround you’re using should be good. You may also want to enable the lid watcher so that the machine goes to sleep when you close the lid.

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