Created attachment 6945 battery percentage in xfce4-battery-plugin and xfce4-power-manager-plugin xfce4-power-manager-plugin shows the battery percentage while hovering over the mouse pointer over it. But it should have a feature that enable it to show the battery percentage or even better, the time remaining, in the panel as does the xfce4-battery-plugin. This way we (at least me) won't have to use two plugins for a thing that could be done using a single plugin. This kind of plugin in other desktop environment already has this feature, so why not in our loving Xfce? Thank you.
xfce4-power-manager added a hidden feature in version 1.5.1 to allow for the display of nothing, percentage, time remaining and percentage and time remaining. * New feature: - Hidden option to show percentage and/or remaining time in the panel plugin (Bug #4499) To use it, create the property /xfce4-power-manager/show-panel-label as INT in the channel xfce4-power-manager. The possible settings are 0 (don't show label), 1 (percentage), 2 (remaining time) and 3 (remaining time and percentage).
@ToZ, Sorry I don't follow. I don't know how to create property as you said. Could you elaborate, please?
@ToZ, okay thank you. I figured it out. I used the Settings Editor and made a property. But it didn't work. Then I checked the version of the power-manager and it's 1.4.1, as supplied with Debian jessie. I'd try it on Xubuntu. But why make it hidden? Why not make it an option in the drop-down/context menu? That way it would be easier for the average joes' to use this feature.
As for why its hidden, see https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4499#c33. It looks like the plan is to eventually add it as an option on the GUI config dialog.
Thanks.
Simon Steinbeiss referenced this bugreport in commit e319a4932617fed22d8ddb27fe4a917f973f2e58 panel-plugin: Add properties dialog (Bug #13270) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/commit?id=e319a4932617fed22d8ddb27fe4a917f973f2e58
I just added a properties dialog to the panel plugin which exposes this setting. Hence this report can finally be closed.