Hello,
I have recently started using KaOS Linux and so far I am liking it a lot. I have one issue that I have failed to fix which is related to the missing power-profiles daemon. Back in 2021, KDE introduced the ability to choose from three different power profiles: power save, balanced and performance. This needs the power-prpfiles-daemon and systemd to enable the service. I cannot seem to find a way to installed that package.
Thanks for bringing this up, I noticed a while ago it was missing, forgot to check further.
According to this commit, power profile files should be included in powerdevil (without needing an outside, new depend):
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/commit/374c64829f9f51fd4ddac87a18bea9acc43735c1
But since the profiles are missing on KaOS, something must have been added after that commit.
demm On a spare laptop, I installed Manjaro KDE Minimal and I had to manually install power-profiles-daemon package to enable the power profiles. On Kubuntu and Endeavour OS power-profiles-daemon is installed by default.
Anyway, one might say that this feature may not save a lot of battery, but I am using my laptop running KaOS for my study and battery life matters even if it is just 20 to 30 mins longer.
You are correct that this is a feature Plasma added & is useful for more many, I'm just trying to figure why there is no mention in powerdevil needing to add a new dependency and why the added power profiles files are not used.
demm On arch linux
On Ubuntu
I hope this package gets added ASAP. I really appreciate the efforts of KaOS team.
Those packages are not the point, issue is the commit & all docs in powerdevil when this was introduced. It should not be needed at all to add a third party daemon, it should all be integrated in the bundled files in powerdevil.
I'm checking with Gentoo to see if they found a solution (since they also keep Plasma as much as possible clean from Gnome/Glib/Gobject dependencies).
If you absolute need the package right now, it is very simple to add to your install, see https://kaosx.us/docs/package/
Package is added (will replace tlp, so not an issue with repos growing).
The dependencies have been kept to a minimum, so it will be added to the default install.
You can install it now with pacman -U http://kaosx.tk/repo/build/power-profiles-daemon-0.11.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, until it is moved from the build repo.
https://github.com/KaOSx/main/commit/6caf10f3e1c60a665324b9fb933cbc275a152ba7
The daemon is enabled on install, best to reboot to have Plasma pick it up.
