[gizmo686]

I had a simmilar experience with Ubuntu a few week ago, when I updated from 10.04 to 12.10. I was already using Awesome as my window manager so I wasn't exposed to most of there UI overhaul, but somewhere during the update they removed the battery indicator applet.

[keithpeter]

Suggestion, try the XFCE battery indicator: might bring a panel with it, I don't use Awesome.