I use Unity in 16.04. For some reason, I am not getting popup notifications for low battery. I have to rely on battery icon in top panel to see if battery is on the " low battery " side. Is the default behaviour in 16.04 ? Or I am not getting pop ups for low battery ?
This is not normal i have a 16.04 running and get popups but i'm using a gnome shell tho.
You can make a script that gives you a message.
Then make a cron job and run it every few minutes.
Attempt reinstalling
indicator-power
with this command:If that doesn't solve the issue, consider using the battery monitoring script as provided by one of my previous answers : https://askubuntu.com/a/603322/295286
Below is python script that can notify you when battery charge gets past certain percentage, and suspend system once it is bellow 10 %. Usage is simple:
Where INT is integer value of your desired battery percentage at which you should receive notification, for example
30
.You can also add the above command to Startup Applications to start this script on every login into Unity session
Source code
As per OP requests in chat and comments , the script now takes two arguments, first for discharge notification and second os for charge notification.
Also available as Github Gitst
Yes, This is normal. I have written a simple bash script for setting up battery notifications.
I also Have this and instructions on my github account. I hope this helps and makes it easier for you.
I found an excellent app that does it for low battery, full battery and so on.
Read this
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/07/ubuntu-battery-monitor-notifications