Battery reporting for wireless peripherals is kind of a hit-or-miss. Some expose their level to the OS, others don't. Even when they do, the data can be flaky enough to ignore. And Bluetooth devices tend to support it more than 2.4GHz ones.

Makes me wonder: is there a reference list somewhere of which devices actually work with #UPower? Would be handy to know before buying.

#Linux #Bluetooth #GNOME

Could anyone shed some light for me on why Gnome Settings understands that a Logitech Unifying receiver mouse is a mouse, while the notification in the same system thinks it's a keyboard?

I wonder how many people have gone to the store and bought new batteries and thrown away the perfectly good batteries in their keyboards because of this, just to be annoyed by being greeted by the same message again next time they booted.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/issues/215#note_2698084

#gnome #linux #upower

The secondary #battery of my #LenovoThinkpad #T460s was completely dead, which somehow confused the whole battery management and it just turned off after 3 minutes, even when the primary battery still had a sufficient charge left.
Replaced now both and after 3 full charge/discharge cycles for initial calibration, #UPower reports the secondary battery now at only 77% capacity left, which I'd expected after 500-600 cycles or so.

Where do those numbers come from? UPower itself? Battery internal?

Dear #LazyFedi

I run a "minimal" #Debian system based on #i3wm, but I'd like my laptop to suspend or shutdown when the battery power gets too low, to avoid running the battery right to zero. What is a reasonable to do this? #upower seems like it might be part of the answer, but it seems like it is mainly glue to provide non-root users the ability to suspend etc...