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Module: PowerProfilesDaemon

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DESCRIPTION

The power-profiles-daemon module displays the active power-profiles-daemon profile and cycle through the available profiles on click.

CONFIGURATION

Option Typeof Default Description
format string "{icon}" Message displayed on the bar. {icon} and {profile} are respectively substituted with the icon representing the active profile and its full name.
tooltip-format string "Power profile: {profile}\nCPU driver: {cpu_driver}\nPlatform driver: {platform_driver}" Messaged displayed in the module tooltip. {icon} and {profile} are respectively substituted with the icon representing the active profile and its full name. {cpu_driver} and {platform_driver} are substituted with the CPU and platform drivers reported by recent power-profiles-daemon versions. {driver} is kept for backward compatibility: it resolves to the legacy single driver on older daemons and falls back to the CPU driver on recent ones.
tooltip bool true Display the tooltip.
format-icons object See default value in the example below. Icons used to represent the various power-profile. Note: the default configuration uses the font-awesome icons. You may want to override it if you don't have this font installed on your system.
expand: bool false Enables this module to consume all left over space dynamically.

FORMAT REPLACEMENTS

{profile}: Active profile full name.

{icon}: Icon (from format-icons) representing the active profile.

{cpu_driver}: The CPU driver reported by recent power-profiles-daemon versions. (tooltip)

{platform_driver}: The platform driver reported by recent power-profiles-daemon versions. (tooltip)

{driver}: Kept for backward compatibility: resolves to the legacy single driver on older daemons and falls back to the CPU driver on recent ones. (tooltip)

CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES

Compact display (default config):

"power-profiles-daemon": {
  "format": "{icon}",
  "tooltip-format": "Power profile: {profile}nCPU driver: {cpu_driver}nPlatform driver: {platform_driver}",
  "tooltip": true,
  "format-icons": {
    "default": "",
    "performance": "",
    "balanced": "",
    "power-saver": ""
  }
}

Display the full profile name:

"power-profiles-daemon": {
  "format": "{icon}   {profile}",
  "tooltip-format": "Power profile: {profile}nCPU driver: {cpu_driver}nPlatform driver: {platform_driver}",
  "tooltip": true,
  "format-icons": {
    "default": "",
    "performance": "",
    "balanced": "",
    "power-saver": ""
  }
}

STYLE

  • #power-profiles-daemon

  • #power-profiles-daemon.performance Applied when the performance profile is active.

  • #power-profiles-daemon.balanced Applied when the balanced profile is active.

  • #power-profiles-daemon.power-saver Applied when the power-saver profile is active.

Note: the module applies a CSS class equal to the name of the active profile, so any additional profile exposed by power-profiles-daemon can be styled by its name.

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