Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am just wondering..... Why is there
no battery icon? It's hard to work without any battery status
around.  I am using Maverick, and the GNOME3 files came from
git.  share|improve this question  closed as too localized by
Bruno Pereira, jrg, Marco Ceppi Dec 5 '11 at 16:53   1 Answer 1
Try going to "Power Management" and over to the "General" tab,
and make sure something other than "Never display an icon" is
chosen.  Power Management Window  share|improve this answer
gnome-shell doesn't use the notification area applet any more,
so the preferences in that old GNOME 2 dialog won't have any
effect as long as you're running gnome-shell rather than gnome-
panel. The control center is being rewritten for GNOME 3, and
the plan for gnome-shell is certainly to have a battery
indicator, so I'd imagine it just hasn't been implemented yet:
live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/SystemStatus/… – 
scottishwildcat Feb 18 '11 at 0:55 That probably applies to
unity as well which also has no not