cpupower-gui
cpupower-gui is a graphical program that is used to change the scaling frequency limits of the cpu, similar to cpupower. (by vagnum08)
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TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life (by linrunner)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cpupower-gui
Posts with mentions or reviews of cpupower-gui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-05.
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Best / most practical way to cap CPU frequency?
I use cpupower-gui for this, and installing the .deb on their releases page works flawlessly. In my experience, it does a pretty good job at improving battery life, even on modern systems.
- How to Change Your CPU Governor in Linux For Better Performance or Battery Life – CPUPower GUI
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Limiting power usage with Ryzen
I was looking into using envycontrol to disable the dGPU in linux, and maybe ryzen controller or cpu-power to limit cpu power usage.
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Question about my LXDE screen brightness
For power management, you could use something like cpupower-gui to underclock the CPU whenever you need to conserve battery.
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Does anyone know of a KDE GUI for selecting CPU governor?
There's https://github.com/vagnum08/cpupower-gui but its GTK based
- CPUPower-GUI – Graphical Interface to Control CPU Power on Linux
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AMD P-State vs. ACPI CPUFreq Testing With Ryzen Laptops On Linux 5.17
I use gnome so I have no clue what the KDE slider does, sorry! But you should check out cpupower-gui
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What's the program that you can park cores utilized in The Phawx video?
You can also use cpupower-gui to park cores, although Phawx mentioned he used some other tool. In this tool, you just need to uncheck the cpu you need to turn off.
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Can't install power-profiles-daemon on Xubuntu
Also I would recommend using cpupower-gui if your frequencies are too high. This tool lets you do frequency scaling and lets you select a governor in a gui.
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How to get maximum battery usage time when no charger is there?
github for cpupower-gui
TLP
Posts with mentions or reviews of TLP.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
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Battery time remaining changing
Usually full charge give me about ~5 hours, after install tlp here https://linrunner.de/tlp
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Thinkpad P52: touchscreen and battery threshold
https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/
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Best Power Management: Fedora 38 + Kernel 6.2.15 + TLP?
They definately do conflict, it was discussed back when ppd first arrived: https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/564
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Power State management best practices?
If you're certain your GPU has deeper power saving states than P8, I would start by checking why it's not using them. Maybe tlp, powertop or nvtop (or their documentation) can help.
- How hot does the x230 get under the keyboard?
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Anyone Using Multiple Old Laptops As Home Servers?
I use TLP for my personal laptop https://linrunner.de/tlp/
- Why do so many people use Linux on their ThinkPad's? I used it for a while and just didnt get on with it
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How an I temporarily minimise power usage on my Mint laptop?
if you don't already have it installed, you could try tlp: https://linrunner.de/tlp/
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Ubuntu basic configuration
Install TLP
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Battery only charging to 80 % (set under Windows)—How to change under Fedora?
Maybe will be helpfull https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/596
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cpupower-gui and TLP you can also consider the following projects:
Ananicy - Ananicy - is Another auto nice daemon, with community rules support (Use pull request please)
auto-cpufreq - Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux
gamemode - Optimise Linux system performance on demand
System76 Power Management - System76 Power Management
linux-gui - (Archived in preparation of fully new GUI implementation) GTK3 GUI client with systray, for ProtonVPN. Works on top of linux-cli.
slimbookbattery - Slimbook Battery 4
pychess - PyChess - a chess client for Linux/Windows
RyzenAdj - Adjust power management settings for Ryzen APUs
ImEditor - Simple & versatile image editor.
nixos-config - My NixOS configurations.
ryzen-controller
corectrl