Questions tagged [power]
Questions about power consumption on elementary OS
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Power issue on Hp 15
This is what my nav bar looks, I don't know what that turbo like icon is, but once I disconnect my power cable, the laptop shots off. Does anyone know of a fix to this please?
Thank you.
Here is the ...
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Keep USB ports powered when suspended
I have recently installed the new Elementary OS 0.6 on my laptop and PC. Before I had Kubuntu 18.04 installed on the laptop, and Elementary 0.4 on the PC.
In both computers, the USB ports didn't power ...
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Hibernate option in Odin
Question is similar to Hibernate option in Juno but for the Odin.
Does anybody have an instruction how to setting up hibernate mode?
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Brightness adjustment broken - Lenovo Yoga 6 13ARE05
Installed 5.1.7 Hera on my laptop (Lenovo Yoga 6 13ARE05); everything except brightness control seems to be working great. Brightness keyboard controls and System Settings -> Power -> Display ...
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Elementary OS becoming very slow on long usage
I'm using Elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera on a Toshiba laptop.
Since the couple of days,I've been using Eos for very long periods(~10-12 hours) straight. So,when I'm not using the laptop,I'll simply put it ...
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Prevent desktop from sleeping or suspending while using SSH
I have a desktop that has Elementary installed. I often use the desktop remotely, over SSH through local LAN or with Tailscale, but I am often disconnected from my session when using SSH. I found this ...
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CPU frequency control tool?
I am currently on Pop!_OS with Gnome. My preferred DE is Pantheon/Elementary OS. I need to toggle back and forth between CPU performance states based on my workload. Basically, whether I am doing ...
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How to get elementary os to stay awake
I have elementary os 5.0 Loki installed on a Dell Latitude e6410. This machine will not stay awake whether it's on battery or plugged in! I will go and set the sleep time to never in power settings ...
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Hibernate and Power Off options
In power options I don't see any option to shutdown when I press the power ON button, or the option to hibernate when I close the laptop lid. I wonder why, as this is what I use in Windows. I would ...
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macbook hardware specs INCLUDING battery
I am looking for where to find my specific computer hardware spec's, including my battery. I have a 2009-10 macbook pro and its needing a new battery. So, I need to find the battery size and make sure ...
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Suspend on elementary Juno has been broken
Suspend was working perfectly fine until yesterday. I mean, closing the lid, pushing the power button and selecting suspend from the power menu was well, suspending the system.
As of today, doing any ...
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Computer always Suspends when Its selected as Never [duplicate]
I needed some help with the power options on Elementary OS Juno. In the power options I have selected that computer should never suspend and that only the monitor would turn off after 15mins.
No ...
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WiFi disconnects after a period of time
Since updating to release-juno, from release-loki, the wifi disconnects after a period of time (around 15-20 minutes).
I'm using a Toshiba Satellite. I've checked the power settings, and when plugged ...
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Power usage NVIDIA on Juno
I noticed that after upgrading from Loki to Juno my battery life was severally decreased.
I have a Dell XPS 9550 with a NVIDI GeForce(R) GTX 960M.
I've installed tlp and tlp-rdw
I've addded the ...
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Power Configuration Seems to Not Be Respected by OS
Recently installed Juno based off recommendation from a friend. The issue I'm currently facing is my laptop (Dell XPS 13), even though I've configured to never suspend on both Plugged and Unplugged, ...
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Is it possible to configure different power management settings for plugged\unplugged?
In windows and Ubuntu (and other distro's) it's possible to assign different power management settings for when on battery power vs plugged.
For example, I'd like the PC to sleep when i close the lid ...
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power button shutdown instead of suspend on login screen
in power settings I configured the power button to suspend and it works, however the system still shuts down when it is in login screen after pressing the power button. is there anyway to fix this?
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How to auto adjust screen brightness?
I have the "automatic adjust brightness" option enabled on Power settings, but it doesn't seem work. I would like the display brightness to reduce automatically when the charger is unplugged.
Is ...
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How to improve battery life on MBP 2015?
I really like elementary os, i installed it on my 15" MBP 2015 -- however the battery life is pretty bad. I get about 3 hours maximum if i'm lucky -- this is much less than the 10 hours i'm used to on ...
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Screen lock prevention when playing video on OS level?
My question isn't how to prevent screen locks/screen turning off / suspend, that question is answered here:
Prevent screen locking while watching videos
My question is shouldn't this be solved on an ...
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Can I use TLP for power management (Dell XPS 15 9560)
How is power management being done in Elementary at the moment? Power managing the NVidia GPU seems important, and at the moment this is the only article I can find http://www.akitaonrails.com/2017/03/...
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Suspend shuts down my laptop
My laptop (Dell XPS 13) started shutting itself off every time I closed the lid. At first, I thought that maybe something was changed in my power settings but lo and behold, it's set to suspend when ...
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How to solve resume from suspend on MBP 2,1 17" 2006
Had to remove all of the Power settings related to resume (to 'do nothing') on my machine due to suspend not waking machine properly. Screen remains black.
Note: sometimes MacOS SnowLeopard did have ...
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elementary OS lacks wakeup from usb controls [closed]
I implemented the procedure from this link -> http://bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/74-ubuntu/220-ubuntu-resume-usb-hid but would be awesome if this was "out of the box" from elementary OS.
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elementary logs out when screen goes blank
When I set my power setting to blank the screen after a set amount of time when the screen goes blank it logs me out of elementary. When I log back in I have to restart my applications.
elementary is ...
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Power Settings limited
Elementary OS is better than sliced bread but there are just a few small niggles one of them is that the power settings are consistent between charge and battery when it would make sense to separate ...
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“Turn off screen when inactive for” doesn't work
I use Loki and my desktop never turns screen off when inactive my computer.
Actually this feature was working until a few weeks ago.
Is there any chance to overcome this issue?
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System shuts down abruptly after waking up [closed]
I have recently installed Loki on Dell Inspiron 7560 (i7) laptop with 8 GB of RAM and 4 GB of Swap.
The system works fine for most of the time but when waking up after sleep and plugging in/out makes ...
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caffeine how to work it
I just installed Elementary Loki
How do I get caffeine to work?
It does not show up. If I run it from the term.. I get
PyGIWarning: Gtk was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi....
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Elementary os goes black when not touched for long
When not touched for long elementary OS goes black with a small underscore at top left corner & when pressed any key pc doesn't wake up
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How to increase battery performance? [duplicate]
I am using elementary OS 0.4 Loki on my LENOVO ThinkPad Edge E125. Everything is fine except battery performance. The battery lasts hardly 1 hour what was previously almost 3 hours. What should I do?
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TLP Power Management disables USB devices in my ASUS UX305 ultrabook. Needs restart!
I recently had Elementary OS (Loki) installed in my Asus UX305 (Dual Boot option). Out of the box, the notebook came with windows 10 home. I took some body's help in the installation as it was not ...
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How to bind power button to choice what I want
I don't know if when can, but I would like when I press Power Button to ask me my choice (shutdown/reboot/cancel).
I search on dconf but there is no value for choice.
Is it possible ?
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How to enable hibernate option in menu? [Loki]
My power menu looks the following and I want to have a hibernate option:
In Freya I was able to activate the hibernate option by following the steps outlined in this answer. I tried the same steps in ...
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Computer doesn't get past BIOS start, screen goes black
Today (02.09.16) I was updating the available security package on my computer when its battery died. Yes I know that all updates should be done with computer connected but I simply forgot and the ...
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Screen keeps dimming no matter what I set in power options
My screen is dimming and then completely black afters some inactivity period - but in power settings I've got "Dim screen when inactive" switched off. Is there any setting I am missing ?
Freya 0.3.2
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Why is there no option to change what closing the lid does on a laptop? [duplicate]
Why is there no option to change what closing the lid does on a laptop? it is really troublesome
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OS Freya only boots in recovery mode and doesnt hibernate
I installed Freya as a dual-boot to Windows. First its not working anyway so I searched the posts and get Grub repaired by purging and fixing it with Boot Repair. That let me boot into Freya some time,...
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Overheating Issue on MacbookAir 6,2
Its a horrible experience to use Freya on MacbookAir 6,2.
I have tried many methods such as tlp, powersave, thermald and pstate enabling to minimize the heating issue.
I finally found a better method: ...
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sleep mode not working when is plugged in [closed]
I've set the configs to go to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity when the laptop is plugged in but there's just a notify that indicates the laptop will go to sleep because of inactivity soon but it ...
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elementary OS Freya System Crashes [closed]
My computer is running elementary OS freya , but after working for some time my computer freezes. I can move the cursor all right but when I click on anything it does not respond. if i shut down my ...
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Power management : "do nothing" when laptop is closed [duplicate]
In Freya there is no way to specify an action for What to do when the laptop lid is closed (eg do nothing, hibernate, turn off etc.)
Unfortunately when I close my laptop, that is connected to my HDTV ...
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Audio powering off for GTX 670 [closed]
My audio keeps turning off unless there is a sound playing. I'm using a GTX 670 using HDMI to my monitor. Is this a power saving feature? If so, how can I turn it off?
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How to change laptop lid close behaviour (to not suspend when the lid is closed)
In other OSes, in the power settings I am able to configure a laptop's 'Close lid' behaviour. Options are like:
Hibernate
Sleep
Power off
Do nothing
I do not see such an option in elementary OS ...
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Power menu lacks restart command
The power menu in the right upper corner lacks restart. If I press physical power button i get a menu containing the restart.
Also the suspend in the right upper corner seems to work differently ...
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Elementary OS system setting for power has problem [closed]
If I set Turn off screen when inactive when plugged in then the same value is also in On battery. So I cannot set right for only when plugged.
This must be a bug either in my setup or in Freya.
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Lenovo Ideapad y510p overheats on Freya [duplicate]
I noticed recently a rather low performance in 3D games that are usually very little demanding for my machine, such as Team Fortress. This game can be run with no issues using only one of the GPUs, ...
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Says laptop battery is 100% but its not completely
Hi the wingpanel indicator says the battery is 100% charged. When i click on to the battery statistics it shows that it is just shy of being full but is no longer charging and is labeled as charged.
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Problem with Graphics/locking up [closed]
Sometimes, when the computer screen goes off, my laptop will flash the screen on black for a second, give me a cursor for less time that, and then go off. It then repeats this indefinitely. When I was ...
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How to hibernate Freya?
I installed Freya three days ago on my main machine, and I faced some issues with the hardware. But I got it to work at last. But the lack of hibernation support in Freya is causing me to seriously ...
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