System76-Power

Philbohackinz

I'm not sure if this would be the right tag. But I've been messing around with system76-power in Budgie. It was a feature I enjoyed in Pop but I didn't really see anything like that in Budgie. I got it to compile and working. It took some tweaking, to get the program running in a daemon. I'm not even sure if that is the right way to run it. When I switched to battery mode I could see my screen dim so I know that is at least working.

I don't see any gui options for changing it which I figured it may not work since its made for gnome but getting cli to work is a start.

So my questions are is there something that already works like this in Budgie? I may have overlooked it. If not is anyone interested in getting this feature to work and added to Budgie?

Philbohackinz

Maybe it would make more sense for this to be added in the Gnome build of Solus? I'm just throwing out suggestions that I think would help users have more control over hybrid graphics laptops.

System76 is also looking at integrating auto-cpufreq to it as well.

JoshStrobl

Not especially interested in adding something specific to system76 into the repository, especially given our intent to have our own power management + TLP alternative (in addition to hopefully returning to improve switchable graphics) in the future, not to mention shipping it in the ISO. Their "GUI" option is just a GNOME Shell extension, which aren't compatible with Budgie.

Philbohackinz

JoshStrobl Fair enough. I'm excited that you have plans in the future for that sort of thing.

jppelt

JoshStrobl I know this is a super old post and A LOT has happened since, no doubt. Just wondering if power management was still on the docket. Hopefully this was not brought up more recently. If so, I apologize for missing it in the forums.