Wingpanel Powersave Indicator

wingpanel-indicator-powersave is a user-discretion power management utility, serving as a frontend to throttlectl, a command-line user-discretion power management utility written in bash.

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Indicator (shows current CPU freqency)

Popover (provides power option toggles)

Building and Installation

For Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, elementary OS, etc):

Preinstall the following dependencies:

• libgranite-dev
• libpolkit-gobject-1-dev
• libglib2.0-dev
• libgtk-3-dev
• libwingpanel-dev
• policykit-1
• meson
• valac

Build and install

Frontend (wingpanel-indicator-powersave)

git clone https://github.com/quequotion/wingpanel-indicator-powersave.git
cd wingpanel-indicator-powersave/
meson build --prefix=/usr
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Backend (throttlectl)

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quequotion/pantheon-qq/master/throttlectl/throttlectl -o throttlectl
sudo install -Dm755 {,/usr/bin/}throttlectl
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quequotion/pantheon-qq/master/throttlectl/performance -o performance
sudo install -Dm644 {,/etc/throttle.d/}performance
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quequotion/pantheon-qq/master/throttlectl/powersave -o powersave
sudo install -Dm644 {,/etc/throttle.d/}powersave
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quequotion/pantheon-qq/master/throttlectl/throttle-cut.service -o throttle-cut.service
sudo install -Dm644 {,/etc/systemd/system/}throttle-cut.service

For Archlinux and derivatives (Manjaro, Artix, etc)

A package is available in the AUR: wingpanel-indicator-powersave-git. See the comments there for instructions on building it (without an AUR helper).