While using lubuntu-desktop I added the battery-monitor to the panel. It seems to be essentially useless as the only information I get from it is whether the power cable is plugged in or not because even while discharging the battery monitor always stays stuck at 100%. I've tried resetting the panel which doesn't fix the problem. acpi gives the correct battery information. Is there an alternate battery monitor or a work around for this?

My preference is to have something that works and displays the battery information on the panel. I can check my battery status on the command line but that doesn't help if I just want a fast easy check.

I've tried conky but I can't get the ${battery} command or anything related to that to display the information even though calling acpi from the command line gives the correct battery status. I could probably write something for conky to just parse and display the output of a call to acpi but I would much rather have a fix or alternative to the battery monitor in the panel.