The battery Indicator in Ubuntu 16.10 doesn't appear unless I disconnect and reconnect the power supply. This on a Fujitsu Life book AH512, can anyone suggest a fix?

try making it show itself then right click on it and see if it has a pref tab to set them.
install a different type of battery icon app
look inside of your UbUnTuTuTuTuTU setup/settings app and see if you can find anything on setting power options.

Thanks, I've tried everything in settings, the OS doesn't seem to detect the battery until power is disconnected/reconnected no matter what application I try. It's not really a problem, just an irritation

Hello and welcome to the forum

In case you're not able to find a solution, perhaps filing a bug report with Ubuntu might be helpful.

Regards...

Fujitsu laptops are weird in their own way.

They have extra safe-gaurds built into their corp. series laptops.

Supposedly to protect the clients using them.

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Edit: I use conky in my Window Manager to handle my battery readings.

then I went with batti-gtk instead for my tool bar in my window manager.

https://github.com/pborky/batti-gtk/blob/master/batti

Thanks, yes I think it's a Fujitsu issue rather than an Ubuntu one. Oh well, nearly time for a new laptop anyway

Well, if you have acpi and acpi tools installed in Ubuntu. You can compare the code with this terminal readout below.

but you have to type in acpi -b yourself as yours might be Battery 1 or some other name.

By comparing code. I mean whatever is written into battery indicator icon you are using in Ubuntu in what ever Desktop Environment you are using.

Because it might be just a minor adjustment needed in a text file by you.

Excellent tip, thank you.

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop pm-utils upower

I ran into an issue when I did an apt-get install unity which basically had no icons / taskbar extras. From a minimal install. Perhaps some HDD corruption or update corruption that made things odd. Re-installation (of the packages, not the OS) might improve things. Otherwise there are other tools.

$ upower -d

Is how I normally check my battery status. Also shows the battery for the wireless mouse. You might also check if your laptop uses the fujitsu-laptop.ko kernel module and if there's "options" you can pass it.

$ sudo modinfo fujitsu-laptop
$ lsmod | grep -i fuji

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