[xubuntu-users] Laptop battery preservation

[Victor Forberger]

On 4/27/25 20:25, Phil wrote:
> I just finished reading a review of Ubuntu 25.04 and it mentions that 
> there is now a battery preservation setting. I have Xubuntu 25.04 and I 
> cannot see such a setting under "power manager". Is there battery 
> preservation setting in Xubuntu?
> 


Xubuntu is not Ubuntu and gnome. So, the desktop environments do not 
duplicate.

To control your processor speed, try indicator-cpufreq.

Install either through synaptic or

$ sudo apt install indicator-cpufreq

Then from the terminal:

$ indicator-cpufreq

If you have Status tray running in your panel, you will see an icon 
appear for selecting the possible power settings for your processor 
(Intel processors generally have a choice between Performance and Power 
Save).

When changing the setting, you will be asked to enter your 
administrative/sudo password.

To learn more about this command/app:

$ indicator-cpufreq --help

or

$ man indicator-cpufreq

Finally, you will probably want to run this process in the background 
(probably $ indicator-cpufreq &). For further info, see 
https://linuxhandbook.com/run-process-background/ and 
https://www.howtogeek.com/440848/how-to-run-and-control-background-processes-on-linux/

-Victor


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