Questions tagged [gnome-power-manager]
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Ubuntu 22.04 / Modify Power Saver Behavior (Do Not Dim Screen)
First of all, I think it's really cool that Ubuntu 22.04 (I upgraded from 20.04, the last LTS version) now has the ability to switch between different profiles. Depending on what I do, I have times ...
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How can I control HDD spin down time?
I have 2 HDDs in my PC. Ubuntu is turning off the secondary HDD very quickly after about 15 minutes, which is short for me. I need to control this time. How can I do it?
I tried GNOME power ...
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What exactly does Ubuntu Power Mode option "Power Saver" do?
I am experiencing issues with Foliate when Ubuntu's Power Mode is set to "Power Saver" and I want to understand what exactly does this option "Power Saver" do to the system. ...
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How to configure sh handler for physical poweroff button?
How to make sh script and run it when physical poweroff button is pressed?
How to remove standard handler with user confirmation for this button?
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How to poweroff / reboot / suspend / hibernate Ubuntu 22.04 by two mouse clicks (not four as by default)?
How to remove confirmation menu when performing poweroff / reboot / suspend / hibernate actions? How to place this menu items without submenus?
In Ubuntu 20.04 I used "Simpler Off Menu" ...
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Where is working "Simpler Off Menu" gnome-shell extension for Ubuntu 22.04?
For Ubuntu 20.04 extension can be installed from here.
But for 22.04 it is not working. Where can I found working version and how to install it?
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How to enable hibernation for ALL power actions (button, idle, lid-close) on 21.10?
I'm installing Ubuntu 21.10 along side Windows 10 on an HP Probook G10 which is not supported. Since suspend isn't supported, and crashes when attempted, I went ahead and manually enabled hibernation ...
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Unable to login into user account - GNOME Power Management have not been installed correctly
Suddenly, I am unable to login to my user account. I have activated the root account and I am able to login to that root account, but I can't login to my user account. I am very sure it is not a ...
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gnome-power-manager Shows Only Wireless Mouse Battery, no AC or Other Devices
I'm diagnosing potential power issues with a Ubuntu 20.04 workstation and just attempted to interact with Power Statistics, a/k/a gnome-power-manager.
Unfortunately, the only hardware object that ...
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No Low battery notification on Ubuntu 18.04
I have gone through other questions as well and somewhere it was mentioned that using percentage policy = true and gsettings to different level will work and it did work for some time until now. How ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 and later: Don't suspend when lid is closed, just lock screen
Since my upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 there's no option in the settings about what to do when the notebook-lid is closed any more.
Before this function had the options "do nothing" and "suspend" and ...
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No Low Battery Notifications or Low Battery Action on 16.10/17.04/17.10/18.04.4
When upgrading to 16.10 and during installation the installer seemed to turn off battery notifications and actions - I know this because I set the critical action threshold to be 15% and during ...
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suspend works but only for a second before exiting back to the desktop
Suspend works but only for a second before exiting back to the desktop. I'm using an HP ZBook 15 G2 with Ubuntu 18.04.2 installed. Ubuntu is installed on a SSD partition while the swap disk is on a ...
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Automatically sleep when all users (ssh or GUI) are logged out?
I've got an Ubuntu 19.04 desktop that I sometimes use as a physical workstation, and sometimes log into using ssh or NoMachine.
In order to save power, I'm wondering if there's a way to make the ...
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I am tracing a suspend problem on my Acer Predator Helios 500 Ryzen and I need some help
just a short history: I am unable to suspend with any Linux distribution and be able to resume again. Currently running Ubuntu 19.04.
I am attempting to follow the steps here to trace the problem: ...
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Power statistics - change grid intervals on time axis?
I am looking at battery charge history in the power statistics monitor in Ubuntu Mate. I think this is the same as in Gnome or other related desktop environments.
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-...
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How can I make the screen not lock when I close the laptop in Ubuntu 18.04? [duplicate]
I think it is annoying that I have to enter my password every time I close the lid of my computer. There was a setting when the lid is closed: do nothing. in earlier versions, but this feature seems ...
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How to use keyboard keys without ending IDLE_MODE_BLANK?
I want to change the volume without waking my laptop display up.
This question wants to accomplish the same but has no usable answer (turning it off again is not an option as the environment is light-...
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Battery icon not showing in Ubuntu 18.04
I have just installed Ubuntu 18.04 along with Windows on my Dell Inspiron 7000 Gaming Laptop. My problem is that the battery icon does not show.
When using upower -i /org/freedesktop/uPower/devices/...
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Strange close lid behavior on GNOME
Recently I decided to switch to GNOME and it was glorious until I found out that I can't close the lid without the GNOME killing itself. I tried everything from the dconf-editor method to killing ...
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Gnome's critical power setting is missing?
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with GNOME Shell 3.18.5. My laptop is Asus GL752VW.
In the settings of Gnome there's no critical power setting where I can control what and when the laptop will shutdown or ...
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Laggy when lid is closed and on external monitor (on the MacBook)
I am running 17.10 on a MacBook 11,4. The problem is that the mouse pointer and application UI (with any app) is laggy, which is likely some power manager thing as it only happens when the lid is ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome not honoring blank screen settings
I've been using Ubuntu Gnome for around 5 years, and recently upgraded to 17.10. With this release, I've noticed a problem I cannot seem to resolve.
Under the "Power" settings is an option to "Blank ...
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What does "Interactive" do in Power settings
I got the answer for all, but Interactive from here.
But what does Interactive do?
(anyone from Windows, suspend = sleep)
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My Ubuntu 16.04 does not recognize power supply plug/unplug instantaneously
It takes some time after the change in state for it to actually reflect in the Unity Panel. upower -m also has the same delay to update.
I have tried reinstalling upower and gnome-power-manager ...
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How to stop gnome-power-manager from changing the global backlight setting?
After installing Ubuntu on my ThinkPad T510, the GDM screen and GNOME session would always start at 100% brightness.
I quickly found out, that this can be controlled via gnome-power-preferences, but ...
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reduce Screen brightness in battery mode automatically
KDE and XFCE4 has a program to adjust the screen brightness automatically in battery mode to a preset value.
How can i set the same with Unity ( or Gnome3 )?
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Is there a widget for Ubuntu 14.04 that monitors RAM, processor, hdd/ssd, LAN, etc?
I been using a process manager and it's ok but I was wondering if there is a desktop widget I could use, that doesn't cost me much RAM to use.
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Battery management doesn't recognize removal of power supply
I have a Lenovo Y460p running Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit). The battery does charge normally, but unplugging the power supply only very briefly shows the correct battery indicator. After about 1 second, it ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 resume after suspend fails in Gnome 3 (but pm-suspend always works)
Using any suspend action on my Asus Zenbook UX310UA under Gnome 3 always leads to failure to resume. This includes closing the lid or invoking "suspend" at the top right menu.
However, when I type pm-...
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Cannot detect power supply plug/unplug on Ubuntu 14.04.2
After plug/unplug power supply nothing happened, means battery icon does not have any reflect or when unplug power supply use battery until become completely empty without hibernate or even shut down. ...
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Unable to Change Critical Battery Action through dconf editor : Ubuntu 16.04
I have an ubuntu gnome 16.04 which is upgraded from 14.04. I want to shut down my machine when the battery reaches its critical level. This was configured through dconf editor and was working fine ...
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How to make upower show correct battery state?
Ubuntu battery icon uses about 1-2 minutes before recognizing that the charger is plugged in or not. How to make the battery status update more often so that it recognizes the charger's state ...
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What do the colors in Power Statistics mean?
I was looking at my power statistics and noticed three different colors are used: green, blue and red. What do they mean?
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Battery saver mode in ubuntu and mint [duplicate]
I have gone through sites and instaled various battery saver tools like tlp lui I actually dont remember their exact name. But non of those helped to save my laptop battery. Windows 8.1 gives me 3 to ...
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How can I get a visual indication if I muted audio and the battery power is running out?
Is it possible to show a flickering or something else to indicate the shut-down process is nearby instead to get my attention with beeps?
Ubuntu Gnome here.
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Ubuntu 14.04 power manager not working
The power manager has suddenly stopped working on my Ubuntu. It shows plugged in and 100% charged all the time. I'm using dual-boot with Windows 7 and the Windows power management tool is working fine....
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How to solve GNOME power manager installation problem?
I installed my updates today and now I can't login due to a fault. After booting, the login screen and the message about installation fault for GNOME power manager appears. After logging in, the ...
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The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Cannot login
I have booted my ubuntu 11.04 on my other PC ( I have put my disk into it and booted it) and now don't know why, when I put it back to my lappy I get this error
I cannot login to the GUI. I know I ...
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Gnome Desktop: Disabling power options
How do you disable the power management options from appearing under Gnome 3 desktop environment (not unity)?
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I use my ubuntu box as both a server for various development tools (including ...
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Unable to enter gnome session - configuration GNOME power manager failed to install
When I enter the password to login into the gnome session, it says the configuration for gnome-power manager installation failed and when I enter the password I get logged out automatically, to the ...
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Power Saving mode after start-up (12.04.4)
I have and issue that I can't seem to find right answer to. Immediately after purple loading screen I get an notification "Entering power saving mode", and I can't do nothing about it. If it's of any ...
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Changing suspend timer to more than 1 hour [duplicate]
In Ubuntu 13.10, I want to change my suspend timer to go to sleep after 3 hours, but in System Settings I can not do that.
I'm wondering is there any way to set it?
I've already tried the ...
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How do I make the power button shut the laptop down without asking?
The energy options screen, oddly, doesn't have an option for what to do when the power button is pressed!
Translating the three options:
"Suspend when inactive for:" (it's set to not suspend)
"When ...
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I cannot adjust the brightness of my Acer Travelmate 4740 laptop
I cannot adjust my laptop's brightness. What can I do?
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How to make Ubuntu recognize Samsung galaxy battery level?
When I plug in an iPhone device, it automatically charges the battery, and showing battery's power percentage.
How to do so, with an Android device?
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How to wake-up / suspend (or switch-off) Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop system automatically at a particular time of the day? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Scheduling StartUp and ShutDown
Currently, I keep my Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop system continuously running as I have to download some data at a particular time which generally ...
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Suspend when critically low power 11.10
Is there a way to suspend when Ubuntu is at critically low power. The only option in Ubuntu 11.10 power setting is to shutdown or hibernate. I run my battery all the way down till it suspends then i ...
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How to access gnome-power-manager in Lubuntu?
I have decided to replace Xfce4-power-manager with gnome-power-manager in Lubuntu 12.04 (didn't knew how to disable the tray icon in fact), which I did using synaptic, and now it shows:
But gnome-...
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Where is the gnome-power-manager binary in 12.04?
Using a tiling window manager, I called gnome-power-manager in earlier Ubuntu versions to get the battery tray icon.
In 12.04, the gnome-power-manager package is still there, but the binary is gone.
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