Fix Missing Battery Icon

I was having the same problem on 12.04 ... No power indicator applet (upon login -- saw
one AT the login screen).
Running gsettings list-recursively|grep settings-daemon spat out that:
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active false

In terminal,
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active true

... logged out and back in and I was good.

This was a fresh install from ISO of 12.04, so for those of you seeing two icons, you
might want to set "....plugins.power active false" and see if one goes away.