Reverting gnome-power-manager to 2.21.1-0ubuntu1 does indeed seem to fix this issue.
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Power Manager applet appears and shows the wrong initial information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs