# Show battery percentage instead of icon

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/show-battery-percentage-instead-of-icon/2604>\
**Category:** Q&A\
**Created:** [February 5, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/show-battery-percentage-instead-of-icon/2604 "2019-02-05T09:32:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![eoiue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@eoiue](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/eoiue)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/show-battery-percentage-instead-of-icon/2604/1 "2019-02-05T09:32:52Z")

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The battery icon is pretty useless to me. Is there a way to show the percentage on the main menu instead of the icon?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![guu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@guu](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/guu)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/show-battery-percentage-instead-of-icon/2604/2 "2019-02-05T10:51:12Z")

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right now,no  
only hack the code maybe

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**Author:** ![Melon\_Bread](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/melon_bread/32/2716_2.png) [@Melon\_Bread](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Melon_Bread)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/show-battery-percentage-instead-of-icon/2604/3 "2019-02-05T15:20:16Z")

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I imagine if you right a proper function for it it would not be the hardest

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