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Feature request: Warn about applications potentially draining battery when running on battery #233

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spotlesscoder opened this issue May 6, 2023 · 0 comments

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Problem

Some apps need more compute power than others - for example, watching 4K videos with VLC media player or other applications like Oracle VirtualBox or comparable apps.

I often run into a situation where I have a few VMs still running in the background when amd I take my laptop, close the lid and then when I'm on the train, I just take out the laptop, open the lid again to do some writing on libreoffice. But I already forgot about the VMs still running in the background.

They often use precious battery capacity and suddenly I realize my battery is almost empty

Proposal

When battery mode is detected, show notifications when either

  • certain known battery hungry apps are running (like Video Players actively playing videos, running VMs with KVM, VMWare, Oracle, etc.
  • Average CPU usage is staying high for more than a few seconds

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