After my Diabo upgrade, battery-status worked for awhile, but some of the python stuff didn't go well and was affecting other apps. Now I think they all work, but now battery-status only runs as root. Under the user "user" it just returns nothing. Is there a permission or search path problem somewhere? The "internal-temp" program still works under "user".

I have a "Personal Menu" shortcut to battery-status because I find the normal battery status bar applet confusing. I wish there was a replacement for it that just gave the percentage number like battery-status and like on every other PC laptop.