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[Charles Kerr <charles.kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> For me the situation is even worse: Since 12.10 the power indicator displays my laptop battery and my MOUSE battery (Belkin bluetooth mouse) as second battery. Unfortunately it always chooses the mouse battery for display in the panel.
> 
> This is of course completely useless, as I want to see how long the laptop battery lasts, not how long the mouse battery lasts. It seems to be impossible to select which battery to display in the panel?

Selecting the mouse battery over the desktop battery is by design iff
the mouse is reporting it will run empty sooner than the laptop. From
the spec:

> "The menu title should tell you at a glance what you need to know
most: what device will lose power soonest (and optionally when), or
otherwise which device will take longest to charge, optionally how long
it will take, and optionally its current charge level. More detailed
information can be accessed inside the menu itself. "

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880881

Title:
  Power indicator does not combine multiple battery status

Status in The Power Indicator:
  Triaged
Status in “indicator-power” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I have an EliteBook 8540w with internal and external battery running Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric).
  Linux #### 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  The power indicator (indicator-power, version 0.9-0ubuntu2) does not combine the status of both batteries. 
  E.g. if one battery still has 1 hour left, and the other has 2 hours left, it will show 1:00 or 2:00, instead of 3:00. 
  E.g. When the external battery is almost run out (but the internal one is still charged), the indicator becomes red, instead of staying white/grey. It should only be red when both batteries are almost drained.
  E.g. when the internal one is fully charged, and the external one is discharging, the estimated time show is the estimated time that the external one will be discharged, not taking into account the internal one. see attached screenshot (total time show should be around 4 hours)

  The original applet provided by gnome (I re-enabled the notification
  area) does (still) have the behavior as I expect. In other words, this
  is a regression compared to 10.10 (pre-unity).

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