Bug#719268: gnome-power-manager: no battery icon in gnome-shell, no action executed on critical battery level

[Antoine Beaupré]

Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 3.14.1-1
Followup-For: Bug #719268

Hi!

My self-described-incompetent friend informed me of this exact issue
after an upgrade from wheezy to jessie recently. It turns out my
"incompetent" friend was more capable than me at figuring out a
workaround:

http://askubuntu.com/a/66422

Enlightened, I thought others could be interested in the Knowledge.

It turns out that you can "Alt-right-click" on the top menu to add
applets, including a battery status applet.

A.

PS: This seems to be a regression from wheezy to jessie. There is also
no obvious way of configuring the actions on power issues. I am sure,
however, that my brilliant friend will be able to tell us if there's a
way to fix that as well. My friend encourages you to try to figure it
out first. :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.14.2-3
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1+b1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libupower-glib3                              0.99.1-3.2
ii  upower                                       0.99.1-3.2

gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager suggests:
ii  policykit-1  0.105-8

-- no debconf information