Cinnamon Battery Applet displays loading when unplugged and discharging when plugged in

[dustypaws]

As the title says, on my GIGABYTE Aero 15XV8 when I plug in the AC it shows that I'm on battery power and when I unplug it shows that I'm currently charging. It's a minor annoyance to me really, just thought I'd share.

[gm10]

I'm not sure if you want help with that (or if we can help) but we'll always need to see the output of

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inxi -Fxz

And in this case the battery status the kernel reports:

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cat  /sys/class/power_supply/*/status

and the one that upower reports along with the chosen icon:

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upower -i $(upower -e|grep battery) | grep -e state -e icon

[dustypaws]

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System:    Host: sebastian-AERO-15XV8 Kernel: 4.15.0-36-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1) Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine:   Device: laptop System: GIGABYTE product: AERO 15XV8 serial: <filter>
           Mobo: GIGABYTE model: AERO 15XV8 serial: N/A UEFI: American Megatrends v: FB07 date: 07/24/2018
Battery    BAT1: charge: 94.2 Wh 100.0% condition: 94.2/94.2 Wh (100%) model: GIGABYTE Aero 15 status: Full
CPU:       6 core Intel Core i7-8750H (-MT-MCP-) arch: Skylake rev.10 cache: 9216 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 26496
           clock speeds: max: 4100 MHz 1: 2802 MHz 2: 3634 MHz 3: 3563 MHz 4: 3593 MHz 5: 3539 MHz 6: 4021 MHz
           7: 3694 MHz 8: 3699 MHz 9: 3658 MHz 10: 3244 MHz 11: 3691 MHz 12: 3488 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel Device 3e9b bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA GP104M [GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 drivers: modesetting,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@144.03hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel Device a348 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 Sound: ALSA v: k4.15.0-36-generic
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 512.1GB (2.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: THNSN5512GPU7_TOSHIBA size: 512.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 model: Samsung_SSD_960_EVO_1TB size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 92G used: 12G (14%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p3
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 298 Uptime: 5:38 Memory: 2723.1/32026.0MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
           Client: Shell (sudo) inxi: 2.3.56
  

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╰─>$ cat  /sys/class/power_supply/*/status
Full

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╰─>$ upower -i (upower -e|grep battery) | grep -e state -e icon
    state:               fully-charged
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charged-symbolic'

[gm10]

All of that looks consistent. According to that you should be seeing the full battery with AC power icon. Is that incorrect?

[dustypaws]

Sorry for the delay...

Speaking of delay, there's a somewhat weird delay of around 2-3 Minutes before the icon changes state. So if I unplug, it still shows AC power for around 2-3 Minutes. If I un- or re-plug within that time, that's where the weirdness with the switched statuses starts...curious... So I guess some process in the background doesn't update quite fast enough or doesn't get notified, I don't know...just guessing.

[gm10]

Sounds like it. I don't know if that's normal for Cinnamon since I'm not actually using it - on MATE the status switches instantly. Might be an issue with the Cinnamon power applet. Did you try an alternate battery monitor, I know there's one in the list of applets you can add. Maybe a Cinnamon user can weigh in. But 2-3 minutes sounds extreme either way.