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lufte

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No battery icon in system tray when it's charging and almost full

The battery icon of my power manager plugin breaks when the battery is charging and almost (96%, for example) full. It displays a red X as if the icon was missing. I'm running Debian testing with the Tango icon pack, XFCE is 4.20.

Any suggestions?

Last edited by lufte (2025-04-27 22:38:25)

ToZ

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Re: No battery icon in system tray when it's charging and almost full

When that happens, can you post back the output of:

upower -d

Also, provide the make/model of your computer.

with the Tango icon pack

If you change the icon theme, does the icon display then?

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lufte

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Re: No battery icon in system tray when it's charging and almost full

upower says

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               LGC
  model:                45N1079
  serial:               4611
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sun 27 Apr 2025 09:27:50 PM -03 (6 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               charging
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              42.32 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         43.9 Wh
    energy-full-design:  62.16 Wh
    energy-rate:         7.368 W
    voltage:             12.815 V
    charge-cycles:       N/A
    time to full:        12.9 minutes
    percentage:          96%
    capacity:            70.6242%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    charge-start-threshold:        75%
    charge-end-threshold:          80%
    charge-threshold-supported:    yes
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charging-symbolic'
  History (charge):
    1745799980	96.000	charging
  History (rate):
    1745800070	7.368	charging
    1745800040	7.828	charging
    1745800010	8.532	charging
    1745799980	9.765	charging

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC
  native-path:          AC
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sun 27 Apr 2025 09:19:40 PM -03 (496 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  line-power
    warning-level:       none
    online:              yes
    icon-name:          'ac-adapter-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/DisplayDevice
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Sun 27 Apr 2025 09:27:50 PM -03 (6 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  battery
    present:             yes
    state:               charging
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              42.32 Wh
    energy-full:         43.9 Wh
    energy-rate:         7.368 W
    charge-cycles:       N/A
    time to full:        12.9 minutes
    percentage:          96%
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charging-symbolic'

Daemon:
  daemon-version:  1.90.9
  on-battery:      no
  lid-is-closed:   no
  lid-is-present:  yes
  critical-action: HybridSleep

The laptop is a Thinkpad x230t. Changing the icon pack doesn't fix it, but the placeholder icon that indicates "broken icon" does change according to the theme (for Tango is a red cross over a white background, and Faenza uses a red circle over a black background).

ToZ

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Re: No battery icon in system tray when it's charging and almost full

icon-name:          'battery-full-charging-symbolic'

Do you have this icon in either icon theme?

Also, try running xfce4-power-manager in debug mode to see if it generates a message when it looks for that icon:

xfce4-power-manager -q
xfce4-power-manager --no-daemon --debug

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lufte

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Re: No battery icon in system tray when it's charging and almost full

xfce4-power-manager shows nothing in debug mode when it's time to render that icon.

I'm not sure what's the mapping between icon names and their actual files, and in what size should the icons be available. Here's what i see:

Adwaita/symbolic/legacy/battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg
Faenza/status/22/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza/status/24/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza/status/32/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza/status/48/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza/status/64/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza/status/96/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza/status/scalable/battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg
Faenza-Ambiance/status/22/battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg
Faenza-Dark/status/22/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza-Dark/status/24/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza-Dark/status/32/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza-Dark/status/48/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza-Dark/status/64/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza-Dark/status/96/battery-full-charging-symbolic.png
Faenza-Dark/status/scalable/battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg
Faenza-Radiance/status/22/battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg
gnome/scalable/status/battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg
hicolor/scalable/status/battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg

Faenza and Gnome supposedly have it, but when I select them I still get the broken icon.

Last edited by lufte (2025-04-28 02:37:31)

ToZ

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Re: No battery icon in system tray when it's charging and almost full

xfce4-power-manager shows nothing in debug mode when it's time to render that icon.

Can you post back the output?

Also, can you try another icon theme, like maybe the elementary icon theme?

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lufte

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Re: No battery icon in system tray when it's charging and almost full

There's no output whatsoever. I double checked that it's running in debug mode.

I installed elementary-xfce-icon-theme and this one does work! So I guess it's an issue with the icon packs and not xfce4-power-manager. I'm gonna investigate further and post back my results.