Gnome Default Power Mode

Desktop Environments Gnome
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Hey,
Does somebody knows how to change the default Power Mode on Gnome? Is just so I can change from power saver to performance on one click
Thanks

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Have a look here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME#Power_modes

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Thanks, I already have the Daemon running. What I want is to be able to change from power saving to performance on a click, but currently it just switch from the last used profile to the default which is balance.

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You could go to Gnome settings, choose Power on the left side and set the default to Power Saver. Then Power Saver is default instead of Balanced.

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I don’t use power-profiles-daemon myself. Just installed and enabled it for the sake of testing.

This is what I see in the setting menu:

power-mode

Have a look at the CLI as well:

$ powerprofilesctl --help
Usage:
  powerprofilesctl COMMAND [ARGS…]

Commands:
  help       Print help
  version    Print version
  get        Print the currently active power profile
  set        Set the currently active power profile
  list       List available power profiles
  list-holds List current power profile holds
  launch     Launch a command while holding a power profile
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Interesting. On my system there is no Performance Power mode

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Looks like that performance mode is not available in all systems.

For more info:
:eye: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/power-profiles-daemon#introduction

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Thanks @pebcak

From that link

If the AMD P-State scaling driver is not loaded or is not in active mode, then
the placeholder driver will be used, and there won't be a performance mode.

This is indeed my situation. :slight_smile:

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Here’s how you can activate it:

If you install the OS with systemd you can add kernel boot parameters by adding them to:
/etc/kernel/cmdline
And then:
sudo reinstall-kernels

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You can switch between the last one use and the default one just by clicking on Power Mode, without having to go to the arrow menu.
What I want to do is just go from Power Saver to performance and the other way round just by clicking on Power Mode.
The only way I can think of is removing the Balance Profile, but I want to leave that as a last option

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Perhaps a shortcut for powerprofilesctl ?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/proc_setting-key-shortcut/

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Ah… that’s what you want! Now I get it.

This seems to be a reasonable workaround.
You don’t need to go to systray and click on the “power mode”.

Make shortcuts for

powerprofilesctl set performance
powerprofilesctl set power-saver
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Thanks,
Hadn’t thought on a powerprofilesctl shortcut, I’ll use it

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Not possible to activate because my laptop doesn’t support cppc

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It is also known that power-profiles-daemon is not really working nicely on AMD CPUs could be TLP is a better alternative…

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:wink:

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Thanks @joekamprad . Interesting, didn’t know.