On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll move the Depends from gnome-session-bin to gnome-shell and > gnome-control-center. Both of those try to use upower's D-Bus > interface. upower is used not only to report the device's battery > state, but also used for the Power Mode (power profiles) feature which > I believe does work on "desktop" CPUs.
The Power Mode feature that uses power-profiles-daemon does not require upower. Its service is named org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles so that's how I was confused. gnome-control-center's Power panel has significantly more functionality when upower is installed. In particular, it shows the battery state of all connected devices. For instance, it can show the battery state of a connected Bluetooth mouse. Some "desktop" computers include Bluetooth support; for the others, there are USB dongles to add Bluetooth functionality. You can run these commands if you don't want the minimal upower service running on your computer: systemctl disable upower systemctl stop upower Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
