[REQUEST] Power Manager

[bananabob]

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For those of us with laptops that are not able to utilize TLP to switch on and off charging of the battery would it be possible to add messages/notifications to the Power Manager at user set percentages with the defaults at 40% for low battery and 80% for charged battery. These should show the current percentage of charge in the messages/notifications and require the user to click "OK" so that they are actually recognised or send the desktop applications into the background like an alt/f2 does until the battery changes status from charge to discharge or vice versa. This feature would also need to be switched off for those that do not require it.

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[Lurux]

I'm not sure I understand this correctly, but I think #10634 might be related

[bananabob]

I am not sure what #10634 means but it sounds like it could be what I am looking for. I just want to be able to know/stop my battery charging at 80% and restart at 40% and do not have access to TLP as I do not have a Lenovo laptop.

[Lurux]

Ok so these are different issues - I thought you were talking about power profiles, but if I understand correctly you actually want to limit the charge level of your battery.

Also TLP is not limited to Lenovo laptops, is it not able to do that ?

[bananabob]

TLP will run on other laptops it just will not control battery charging, only Lenovo provides that firmware (I think its is called)

I should add that even if power manager only puts out a message at 40% and 80% would be good enough. If that is all that can be achieved. There is BAM (applet) which puts out a message at 40% but not at 80% so it is possible.

[bananabob]

I have currently installed and am running a script to monitor my battery usage. A copy is attached here. I start it using the Startup Applications in the Setups. Just to show what I am talking about and what I would like to see in Power Manager. battery.txt .