Help- battery icon has disappeared

HI, my battery icon has disappeared from my system tray.

Can anyone tell me where and how to get into the control panel on this machine ?

THanks

 

Depending on your distribution, click on to open "control panel" or system management under the "Menu" button on desktop, then scroll down to "power management" and click to open it. In power management there is a series of options as to how you want the battery icon to appear. Click the corresponding button for the one you want. Restart your computer, it should show itself. Certain community editions, namely the XFCE, have a more sophisticated battery/power manager. You do not have to change the distribution to activate XFCE, just download from Synaptic or Package manager, the XFCE4 packages and change your "session" to XFCE when you log-in. This is much easier than it sounds.