2011/8/1, Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl>: > Install gnome-power-manager, logout and login again. Maybe that helps.. > Now you're talking. It didn't start automatically, but I wrote a .xsessionrc with one line: gnome-power-manager & and now I have a functional battery meter in the dock. Thanks again, Jeroen. Next goal, to make the laptop even more usable, could be suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk... Risto