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Most of them are just a frontend for upower anyway.
I never thought about it much but how hard would it be to add PID to your power info?
I think I could hack such a feature into the tray indicator as a weekend project, but wanted to see if someone already accomplished it before I go reinventing the wheel.
What is your desktop environment?
Xfce
is the behavior the same in any other xwindows environment?
Not that I'm aware of
this would be a useful troubleshooting step and, since you're already using xfce, you should be able to easily and temporarily switch your display manger to switch to something like gnome or kde to check.
if gnome shows battery correctly; then you know that it's xfce and then you have you answer.
Not going after a bug though, it's just the way the included battery meter in Xfce (and other X11 battery indicators I've found) works, while things like Android track usage over time to give a better estimate.
But based on the other responses, it looks like I'll have to cook it up myself.
Idk
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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