Power Options

All-In-One blazingly fast Linux GUI Application for simple and advanced power management on any device.

Power Options can be a drop in replacement for any power-saving application, including TLP, auto-cpufreq, cpupower-gui, etc. Power Options covers all of the most common power saving settings and adds additional ones not present in any other application.

Upon install, Power Options will analyze the system and intelligently generate a wide range of profiles based on the findings. These profile are greatly optimized and shouldn't require intervention, unless the user wants more control.

Most applications only allow two profiles: Battery Profile and AC profile. This is suboptimal for ocasions where one might want greater control. This is what led to the creation of the profile system that this program uses:

• The user can have as many profiles as they please
• The user chooses which profiles will be selected for Battery and AC.
• The user can temporarily override the profile selection to another one until they remove that override.
• The user may set a persistent override that will be kept across reboots.

Available Frontends/Interfaces

One can simply install the daemon and edit the configuration files manually as those are written in TOML. But the biggest strength of this program are the GUI interfaces it provides, as almost any other power saving tool does not have one and resorts to configuration files.

Native GTK frontend

Simple, lightweight and native with a simple interface. Recommended for most users.

WebKit frontend

More advanced options and greater control. Not as lightweight. Recommended for advanced users and users who are looking to use power-options in tandem with another power management solution.

Features

Power options was made based on a recollection of all the tips and recommendations from the biggest linux wikis and guides as well as other power saving applications. Some examples include:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management
• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Power_management/Guide
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_management
• https://github.com/supplantr/ftw
• https://github.com/linrunner/TLP
• https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq
• https://github.com/vagnum08/cpupower-gui

Power Option includes the following features:

• More profile types than alternatives
• Can smartly generate profiles by analyzing the user's system.
• System Sleep Options (suspend, screen turn off)
• CPU Options
• Individual CPU Core Options. Most power saving tools lack this option and was one of the main motivations for this project.
• Screen Options
• Options for disabling radio components (e.g Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC)
• Network Options. Allows WAY greater control than alternative applications, but does require network driver reload. Limited to Intel network cards that use iwlwifi.
• ASPM Options
• PCI Options
• USB Options
• SATA Options
• Kernel Options
• Firmware settings
• Audio Options
• GPU Options
• Intel Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) settings

Installation

Arch Linux

There are 6 AUR packages for power-options.

• GTK: power-options-gtk (stable) and power-options-gtk-git (bleeding edge)
• Webview: power-options-webview (stable) and power-options-webview-git (bleeding edge)
• System Tray: power-options-tray (stable) and power-options-tray-git (bleeding edge)
• Just the daemon: power-options-daemon (stable) and power-options-daemon-git (bleeding edge)

Fedora

The COPR GTK package is maintained by @lpuv

sudo dnf copr enable leo/power-options 
sudo dnf install power-options

Other distros / from source

• GTK:

To build, requires dev libraries libgtk4-dev libadwaita-1-dev (or the equivalent in your distro)

git clone https://github.com/TheAlexDev23/power-options/ --depth=1
cd power-options/scripts
chmod +x *.sh
# Run as local user, will require sudo password
./install-gtk.sh
# If installing for the first time
./setup.sh
# If updating
./update.sh

• Webview:

To build, requires dev libraries libsoup-3.0-dev, libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev and libxdo-dev (or the equivalent in your distro)

# dioxus-cli is required
cargo install dioxus-cli
git clone https://github.com/TheAlexDev23/power-options/ --depth=1
cd power-options/scripts
chmod +x *.sh
# Run as local user, will require sudo password
./install-webview.sh
# If installing for the first time
./setup.sh
# If updating
./update.sh

• The system tray icon:

git clone https://github.com/TheAlexDev23/power-options/ --depth=1
cd power-options/scripts
chmod +x *.sh
# Run as local user, will require sudo password
./install-tray.sh
# If installing for the first time
./setup.sh
# If updating
./update.sh

• Just the daemon:

git clone https://github.com/TheAlexDev23/power-options/ --depth=1
cd power-options/scripts
chmod +x *.sh
# Run as local user, will require sudo password
./install-daemon.sh
# If installing for the first time
./setup.sh
# If updating
./update.sh

Dependencies

For build dependendencies, refer to the installation guide above.

Mandatory:

• lspci
• lsusb
• acpi

Optional:

• iwlwifi compatible network card for network configuration
• Intel sound card for audio configuration
• Intel/AMD GPU for GPU configuration
• xrandr: resolution/refresh rate control
• brightnessctl: brightness control
• ifconfig: ethernet blocking
• xset: screen turn off timeout
• xautolock: system suspend timeout

Webview frontend:

• webkit2gtk
• dioxus-cli

GTK frontend:

• yad
• libadwaita

Updating

If you've installed using the AUR, your package manager should handle the updates.

If you've installed using install scripts, simply pull the latest changes and re-run the install scripts again and ./update.sh. Important, do not run ./uninstall.sh, ./setup.sh or power-daemon-mgr setup if you want to keep your profiles

Limitations

• Network configuration only works on Intel cards and cards that use iwlwifi
• Resolution and refresh rate control only works on X11 (other options should work though).
• Audio configuration only works on Intel cards and cards that use snd_hda_intel or snd_ac97_codec
• GPU configuration only works on Intel and AMD cards or cards that use i915, amdgpu or radeon drivers/modules.
• Settings for resolution and refresh rate control are only available on the webview frontend.

Contributing

One of the easiest ways to help, is by opening issues when you encounter errors. This lets the developers know what to fix, and allows future users with the same issue find a fix for their problem.

Linux is a large ecosystem, there are alternatives for almost everything. And while power-options was built to be used with the most popular Linux software, you can still help by porting power-options to other alternatives that you use by opening PRS. Examples could include, porting power-options away from systemd, adding some X exclusive features to wayland, etc.

The dev branch will almost always have some experimental features that still remain to be merged into the main branch. If your hardware supports those features, the developers will be really greatful if you could test them in your system and inform of potential issues. Using the power-options Discord server is recommended for those use cases.

Acknowledgements

• Arch Linux Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org)
• TLP (https://github.com/linrunner/TLP)
• Open Source Figma Icon set (https://www.figma.com/community/file/1250041133606945841/8-000-free-icons-open-source-icon-set)