@frameworkcomputer #GNOME and #KDE desktops, #UPower, and all the other tools out there don't work without charge_control_start/end_threshold either.
Also speaking of power management / #sleep / #suspend on Debian / Linux: Even when the #standby / #s2idle power usage was still reasonable/working I typically ran into issues with running out of power and then fsck's on reboot.
I thought I saw config options regarding the levels in #systemd's sleep.conf, but maybe I misremembered. Took me a while to figure out that I could tune these in #UPower's configs instead.
And it's still confusing to me what the difference between Low/Critical/Action is.

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

If anyone liked my idea, I made an issue for it and would appreciate a thumbs up :)

Please lower threshold for battery warning on peripherals

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/issues/293

#gnome #upower

Please lower threshold for battery warning on peripherals (#293) · Issues · upower / upower · GitLab

Hi, If I understand the situation correctly upower has set a threshold where peripherals that dips below 10% battery remaining trigger a warning, which the DE...

GitLab
Unfortunately I have no idea where in the #Gnome gitlab I should go to see if anyone has raised this issue before, or create a new issue. Settings? That can't be right? Is it even Gnome that decides the threshold, or is it #upower? idk
John Travolta and Gerard Butler - U Power (2023)

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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?

And now, finally, eudev and upower are fixed!    

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/66099

#guix #udev #eudev #libudev #upower

[PATCH gnome-team 0/3] Update upower

Surprise, that’s not what is blocking the upower update. I don’t have any more clues yet.

#upower #eudev