Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good independent power-manager?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 08:19:14PM +0100, Benjamin Block wrote

 The thing is, on my laptop I used to use the gnome-power-manager along
 with cpufreqd and laptop-mode to manage battery-mode. Is there any good
 replacement for this tool that doesn't belong to one of the big
 desktop-environments (I use i3 since 2 years ago)?

  I use sys-power/cpufrequtils which is a commandline tool.  It installs
cpufreq-info and cpufreq-set.  E.g. the command...

cpufreq-set -r -g conservative

will select the conservative power-governor.  The -r tells it to set
all cores (which I assume you want).  If you want to get fancy, you can
tweak acpid to call cpufreq-set when certain events happen; e.g. the
screen is folded down, AC power is (dis)connected, etc.

-- 
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] is there a good independent power-manager?

[Benjamin Block]

Hi,

after the recent stabilization of gnome3 I want to migrate away from the
whole gnome-toolchain. Maybe I will migrate to systemd in some months, if
everything has settled down but as for now I don't think I gain anything
from it.

The thing is, on my laptop I used to use the gnome-power-manager along
with cpufreqd and laptop-mode to manage battery-mode. Is there any good
replacement for this tool that doesn't belong to one of the big
desktop-environments (I use i3 since 2 years ago)?

best regards,
- Benjamin