[TLP 1.9 Beta] Introducing TLP Profiles Daemon - Call for testers

[linrunner]

Hi @ALL,

I'm looking forward to your help with test coverage, as with every beta release!

Test Objectives

1. TLP Profiles Daemon (tlp-pd)
tlp-pd enables convenient power profile switching from your Linux desktop environment. Together with tlp it replaces power-profiles-daemon. It's the most important thing to test because it's a completely new invention in this release.
A third configuration profile is being introduced, designed to save as much power as possible.
You can now choose the following options on your desktop:

• performance: configuration parameters ending in _AC are used. performance is automatically selected when AC power is connected.
• balanced: parameters ending in _BAT are used. balanced is automatically selected when operating on battery power.
• power-saver: parameters ending in _SAV are used. Manually selectable only.

Test case: click through the three profiles on the desktop and check whether they can be selected.
Also, check the output of tlp-stat after each profile switch to ensure that the tunables have been set according to your configuration.

tlp-pd also comes with the new command tlpctl. It allows you to change profiles in a shell without root privileges (only when tlp-pd.service is running). Get the details with man tlpctl.

tlp-pd is an optional component. If you do not want to install it, you can also change the active profile by shell command: sudo tlp <profile> (root required of course).

Supported desktops:

• GNOME 43 and later
• KDE Plasma 6 and 5.2x
• Cinnamon 6.4.x (Debian 13 and Linux Mint 22.1)
• LXQt 2.2.1

Note: Cinnamon 5.4 in Debian 12 Bookworm (with additional applet) does not work.

2. General regression testing (check if everything still works for you)
When changing the power source AC <-> battery, do active profile and tunables change accordingly: check desktop and compare the outputs of tlp-stat.

3. Battery Care
Check that the newly supported Tuxedo hardware can set the charge thresholds.
Please report results in the dedicated issue #803 (comment)

Beta Packages - Arch, Debian/Ubuntu

See the download page.

What do I need from the testers?

After installing please reboot. Then I expect your unabbreviated outputs of

sudo tlp-stat

for each power profile: performance (AC) balanced (battery) and power-saver (via Gist please).

Bug Reports

If something does not work as expected → please open an issue.

Thanks in advance for your feedback on the beta! :-)

More Info

• https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/blob/main/changelog
• https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/releases/tag/1.9.0-beta.1

[LevitatingBusinessMan]

It appears that the tlp-git package has overwritten my /etc/tlp.conf.

I can't say I am terribly happy with that outcome.

Edit: I managed to recover the config from a snapshot so no harm done, but you should probably get the maintainer to add /etc/profile.conf to the backup array.

[linrunner]

@levitating the AUR package provides for a backup to be created: /etc/tlp.conf.pacsave. I just tried with yay to confirm it works.

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=tlp-git#n53

I recommend keeping your individual configuration in /etc/tlp.d/.

[LevitatingBusinessMan]

I see, the official package creates a .pacnew instead: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/tlp/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads#L47

[linrunner]

@LevitatingBusinessMan the AUR package has the same backup=(etc/tlp.conf)statement as the official one. Your problem seems out of scope here.