powermode indicator

Powermode Indicator

It is a plugin for all desktops supported by libappindicator. It provides menu to choose power profiles.

I do use it on my system. I would love to see contributions and bug reports.

It depends on power-profiles-daemon

Installation

Arch Linux

paru -S powermode-indicator-git

Ubuntu and Debian

Deb file has been provided in release. You can download and install.

From sources

The packages is made using cmake

You will need following dependencies:

• cmake > 3.16
• gtkmm-3.0
• glibmm-2.4
• giomm-2.4
• appindicator3-0.1
• gcc or clangd
• pkg-config

Steps:

• Clone and change to the project directory

cd powermode-indicator

• Make a build directory

mkdir build

• To build run following commands

cmake -B build -S .
cmake --build build

• To install run following commands

cmake --install build

How to run and configure?

The indicator shows up in Status Tray once powermode-indicator command is executed.

I would recommend you to add it in autostart script.

Troubleshoot

• The indicator doesn't show performace mode or other mode if that is not available on your laptop. If you are not sure run the follwing command to check

powerprofilesctl

• If icons are not shown. Try papirus-icon-theme, breeze-icons or any other complete icon pack