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Implementing battery charge limits in GNOME

By @jelly

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It will mitigate battery loosing capacity over time.

#GNOME #Linux #LinuxMobile #FrameworkLaptop #freedesktop

A mockup of GNOME Settings Power Panel. It shows a section "Battery Health" with an option to "Preserve Battery Health"

GNOME battery charge control

As someone who has to use a laptop for work, I keep my laptop plugged in 8 hours or more a day, 7 days a week.
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Jonas
Jonas
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neat, this is something I’ve been spending a bunch of time thinking about, and I wonder if we can improve the experience here even more:

New hardware (like ARM MacBooks) also allow to inhibit charging at any point via sysfs, so we could do smth like stop charge at 80% but provide a button (maybe quicksetting) to continue up to 100% once.

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SchwarzeLocke
SchwarzeLocke
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@jelly

I'm using extensions.gnome.org/extension… for some time now and am quite happy with it. That seems to have some more options, e.g. changing the charge limit ad-hoc or enable force-discharge.

Battery Health Charging - GNOME Shell Extensions

extensions.gnome.org
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Kent Borg
Kent Borg
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Is this a backend kind of thing that might show up in MATE? (The old good gnome interface.) Or is it only in the smartphone-envy version that outlaws scrollbars and menus but likes buttons?
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