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Questions tagged [gnome-power-manager]

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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 management but did not find it useful.
user16295
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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 maybe "shutdown". The "do nothing" function did…
user755218
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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 to get back low power notification, my battery is…
Mohit Bhagat
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Replace XFCE Power Manager with Gnome Power Manager

Is there a way to "swap-out" the existing XFCE power manager in a Xubuntu install with the more common GNOME power manager without breaking the install? Am having problems with the xfce power manager on a Toshiba laptop (wont suspend properly) -…
Zors
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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 I'd like to have GDM and the GNOME session follow…
htorque
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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 when my machine, calculation-wise is basically in…
Markus Gratis
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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 plug it in. It gets annoying when my computer…
Ryan
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How to enable battery status indicator in gnome shell?

I'm using Ubuntu Precise with Gnome Shell on a Dell Latitude E6520 and I'm missing the battery status icon. When I run gnome-power-statistics then the battery info is displayed correctly so I'm sure Linux and Gnome can see the battery (So there is…
kayahr
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Other devices in the battery power indicator?

Every now and then, I encounter some mention of other devices being shown in the power indicator. For example, along with the laptop battery, listing the battery level for an iPod being charged over USB. I understand the specification mentions that,…
Dylan McCall
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Change screen brightness automatically on AC connection/disconnection

I want to keep the screen brightness at minimum level when its unconnected to power and at maximum level when it's connected On Ubuntu 11.04 it was possible, through this config screen: However on Ubuntu 11.10 my power settings looks like this: …
NeDark
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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 immediately. This problem was not present in Ubuntu…
Håvard Pettersen
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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. Just after restart can detect plug/unplug. This…
Daniyal Javani
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How to stop turning off sequence when power manager says that battery is too low and want to power down?

According to this thread I can disable this thing altogether but this battery-critical-power-down not always happens. Is there a way or terminal command that can stop the power manager shutting down my computer when that infamous message box pops…
Calmarius
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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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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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