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POWER PROFILES
An applet to modify the current system power profile as determined by
power-profiles-daemon (accessible via the command-line as powerprofilesctl
if installed correctly)
DESCRIPTION
This is an applet that will set the profile via the input menu or keyboard shortcuts.
The following options are selectable from the applet menu (see the screenshot):
- Power Saver
- Balanced
- Performance (if available)
There are two customizable keyboard shortcuts for switching profiles:
- Previous profile
- Next profile
There are also settings for customizing the operation of the keyboard shortcuts:
-
Cycle through profiles when using keyboard shortcuts (Default:
false)This will determine whether the keyboard shortcuts will cycle through the available system power profiles. Example: The current profile is 'Power Saver' and the keyboard shortcut for 'Previous profile' is entered. If this option is set to
false, the profile will stay set at 'Power Saver' and if the option is set totrue, the profile will change to 'Performance' if it is available or 'Balanced' otherwise. -
On-screen display for keyboard shortcuts (Default:
true)This will control whether there is an on-screen display (see the screenshot) if a keyboard shortcut defined via the applet configuration settings is entered. Similar to volume and other system on-screen displays, even if the option to cycle is set to
falseand the profile is unchanged by the keyboard shortcut, the on-screen display will still be shown.
COMPATIBILITY
This applet has been tested to be compatible with Cinnamon 5.6+ but is supported for Cinnamon 5.4+.
DEPENDENCIES
This applet depends on the following packages being installed:
On Debian-based, Arch-based, Fedora-based, and Gentoo-based systems, the
package is available in the default repositories as power-profiles-daemon.
KNOWN ISSUES
The power-profiles-daemon package and daemon conflicts with TLP and other
similar applications - there should only be one such tool installed and
running to ensure overall stability.
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