Fixing the upower warning - WSL/ZSH/Spaceship prompt

December 11, 2020

The blog post discusses a warning that appears when using the Spaceship prompt in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with ZSH:

(upower:26251): UPower-WARNING **: 10:47:25.757: Cannot connect to upowerd: Could not connect: No such file or directory

The author provides a solution to disable the battery status feature in the Spaceship prompt:

# Turn off power status when using spaceship prompt
export SPACESHIP_BATTERY_SHOW=false

This can be added to the ~/.profile file to prevent the upower warning from appearing.

Key Takeaways

The warning occurs because upowerd is not running in WSL
Disabling the battery status feature resolves the issue
The fix can be implemented by setting an environment variable

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