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:mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins
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Enable efficiency mode to reduce battery usage #2786

Open WhitespaceQ opened 1 month ago

WhitespaceQ commented 1 month ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I noticed a small but measurable increase in power usage when not plugged-in after using Flow Launcher for a few weeks or so. Manually setting "Efficiency mode" to the flow launcher executable in Task Manager solves this.

Describe the solution you'd like

For Flow Launcher to automatically set itself on efficiency mode on start up.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Manually set Flow Launcher to efficiency mode every restart.

Additional context Firefox implementation: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/30dfc0e2fcfec889f94fbd0ec5f20822c276c0fb/hal/windows/WindowsProcessPriority.cpp

Windows API reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-setprocessinformation

taooceros commented 1 month ago

Will setting flow to efficiency mode make it slower?

WhitespaceQ commented 1 month ago

@taooceros I haven't noticed any performance degradation, opening via hotkeys is instantaneous as usual. This is after days of uptime and multiple sleep/wake cycle.