Open up the 'etc/hildon-desktop/status-menu.plugins' file again. Now the easiest way to fill up the space previously used by battery icon is to find the entry with the highest position-value (it's the number on the right of '=' in those lines: X-Status-Menu-Position=1 ) and replace it with a 1. So, if you find that 12 is the highest position-value in that file (X-Status-Menu-Position=12), change the 12 to 1, like so: X-Status-Menu-Position=1. Those are just indexes in the status menu, starting on 1. Since there are two columns the indexes are like: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...