tuxedo-power-profile-adapter

A DBus adapter that lets desktop environments control TUXEDO power profiles through the standard freedesktop power-profiles interface.

Overview

Modern Linux desktop environments like KDE and GNOME rely on the org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles DBus interface to switch between power-saver, balanced, and performance profiles. Normally this interface is provided by power-profiles-daemon.

TUXEDO laptops ship with the Tuxedo Control Center, which offers much more fine-grained hardware and power configuration than power-profiles-daemon. The catch: its daemon does not implement the org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles interface, so the standard power profile controls in your desktop environment simply stop working once you switch to it.

What it does

tuxedo-power-profile-adapter bridges that gap. It registers itself as the org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles DBus service and translates any incoming profile change requests into the corresponding calls to the Tuxedo Control Center daemon — completely transparent to the desktop environment.

In short: you get the full Tuxedo Control Center experience and working power profile controls in KDE, GNOME, or any other compliant desktop.

Installation

AUR

If you are on Arch Linux or an Arch-based distribution, the easiest way to install the adapter is via the AUR package:

paru -S tuxedo-power-profile-adapter

or with any other AUR helper of your choice. The package pulls in all required dependencies and sets up the systemd service automatically.

Manual

See the PKGBUILD in the AUR repository for reference on how to build and install the package manually.

Usage

The adapter is activated automatically by D-Bus when a desktop environment or another client accesses the org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles interface.