[i3blocks config] Enhancements for laptops, Power Profiles

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I’m back at i3 (again) and while tinkering I thought I may as well share what I have so far.

Since there is a Power Profiles Daemon these days and it integrates in GNOME and KDE just fine these days, I wanted to at least know what profile is active in i3 Blocks.

So I went ahead and made some modifications that work. But I do think all that is needed will be a rofi menu for switching profiles. I hope to add that later.

~/.config/i3/i3blocks.conf

#Show the current powerprofile
powerprofile]
label=
command=~/.config/i3/scripts/powerprofile
interval=5

~/.config/i3/scripts/powerprofile

#!/bin/bash

#A script to show current power profile

current_profile=$(/usr/bin/powerprofilesctl get)
echo "$current_profile"

Maybe this is way too simple to share, but maybe some other laptop users may appreciate this.

EDIT:

So I got the basics working, not pretty yet but works, the menu sorts alphabetically and not in the order its entered in the script.

Adaptations from Powermenu script now called powerprofile-menu

# powerprofilesctl required
 if ! command_exists powerprofilesctl ; then
   exit 1
 fi

# menu defined as an associative array
typeset -A menu

# Menu with keys/commands

 menu=(
   [Performance]="powerprofilesctl set performance"
   [ Balanced]="powerprofilesctl set balanced"
   [ Power Saver]="powerprofilesctl set power-saver"
   [ Cancel]=""
)

menu_nrows=${#menu[@]}

The entry in i3 config: config

# Power Profiles menu
bindsym $mod+Shift+p exec ~/.config/i3/scripts/powerprofile-menu

TODO:

  1. Fix the sorting
  2. Intelligently display available power profiles?
  3. widen menu to display propperly

@joekamprad Can you see if the script can intelligently check what powerprofiles are available and leave out the ones not available?

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i was searching for a way to handle profiles already for i3… but your idea is a nice start!
Using rofi or yad will be possible.

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I was contemplating to modify the Powermenu, but was a bit stunned at the amount of code in there. I’s well commented though.

We could bind the Powerprofiles menu to a key in the config and then be done.

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2022-01-19_19-00
same here would be nice to be able to sort as it is…
Would also be nice to get a validation on successful setting profile :wink:

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For me the validation is the changing of the profile name in my bar.

The leaf is a nice touch! I don’t know how to make a pull request with the changes, maybe you can implement it in the config. Looks good!

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yes this is the best way… i just see you have the blocks part posted already :wink:

blocks:

#set power-profile
[ppd_menu]
full_text=
command=~/.config/i3/scripts/power-profiles
color=#407437

#Show the current power-profile
[ppd-status]
command=~/.config/i3/scripts/ppd-status
interval=5
color=#407437

2022-01-19_19-22

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I can add it to the i3 configs, also it is always nice to see the one contributing it in the commits as if I add it it looks like me contributing it…
But I can add a link to this post in the message.

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This is not working here.

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Works for me, strange. I’ll check later if the modification is needed for the script to work as intended.

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the powermenu script has also ROFI_OPTIONS=(-theme ~/.config/rofi/powermenu.rasi) to use the right theme and settings I add one that works simply changed from powermenu:

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