Battery charge monitor applets appears & disappears at random

[sp-merrow]

Expected behaviour

Applet stays in the location it was placed and is constantly visible

Actual behaviour

Even when the indicator is visible, sometimes it vanishes upon logging out and logging back in. Changing the height of the panel usually gets it to reappear, but this seems to be temporary and only lasts until the next login.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Set panel to 28px in height (this is the height of my panel, but it happens at other heights as well) and attempt to place a battery charge monitor applet on it. It will not show up until you change the height of the panel, and then it's a gamble as to if it will still be there upon logging out and logging back in. Seems to disappear most often when close in proximity to other panel applets.

MATE general version

1.26.0

Package version

mate-panel: 1.26.1-1
mate-applets: 1.26.0-1

Linux Distribution

Arch Linux

Link to bugreport of your Distribution (requirement)

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73436

[MintMain21]

I keep on getting this same problem myself. I've since migrated to using the DE-agnostic cbatticon application instead, but I keep on getting messages from the absent BCM Applet, which seems to be running in the background but is completely invisible on my taskbar. After discovering this post, I upped my Taskbar size until the BCM Applet appeared, removed it, and shrunk it back down to default. Thanks.

[issteve]

Thanks to a hint I used as a workaround a shellscript in the autostart: mate-desktop/mate-panel#897 (comment)