Description

WIP Another power management for GNU/Linux (everthing is still in progress, so don't expect it to work properly)

• helps you to manage your power, lasting your battery life with an easy, beautiful default CLI interface.
• inspired by TLP so it comes with good default configuration and highly customizability in mind.

Why another?

TLP was pretty good and useful, but there are still some problems with it. First, application was slow since it's written in Perl and Bash, furthermore the design of TLP doesn't allow it to be used as a library for other applications easily, for example, a GUI.

Some pwr5's pros over TLP:

• pwr5 is made with extensibility in mind, it provides a universal C library for any application to use, either a cli, ncurses or a Gtk+ client.
• pwr5 is written in C99 so it's very fast, much faster than bash and perl so every time you type a command, you don't have to wait.
• pwr5 tries to using sysfs interface and available library instead of invoking directly the binary, which is slow and unstable
• by cutting off some overheads over Perl and Bash scripts, pwr5 is more power efficient. A program which manages power have to be power efficient itself, of course.

Build and run

Make sure that you have a working GCC that supports C99 (4.8 or newer should be ok) on a recent kernel (3.19 or newer should be good)

Implemented features

• Battery
• CPU
• Disk
• Graphics
• PCI
• USB
• Wireless
• Backlight
• Config parser
• Commandline interface
• Systemd services

Contributing

pwr5 needs your help to be a universal tool that supports many laptops.

1. Fork it
2. Create a new branch
3. Commit your changes to the new branch
4. Make a pull request

License

pwr5 is published under MIT License

Author(s)

• l4 (l4.foss@gmail.com)