MATE-POWER-MANAGER(1)

💖 mate-power-manager(1) — like, the MATE power manager, bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for mate-power-manager, and if you're running MATE you're literally already using it (or you should be, no cap). let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

mate-power-manager — the MATE power manager userspace daemon 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mate-power-manager [ --help ]

that's it, that's the whole vibe. two options, both icons. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so mate-power-manager is the backend program of the MATE power management infrastructure — the whole integrated situation that gives you a complete and integrated solution to power management under the MATE desktop environment. it's the main character, the others are just supporting cast. 🫶

and the features?? bestie. it supports stuff like:

• suspending 😴
• hibernating 🧸
• screen blanking 🌑
• cpu frequency switching ⚡
• and more!!

…all in one small neat package. it's giving "does everything and doesn't even brag about it." iconic behavior, fr fr. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — shows a summary of the options. the classic "help me pls" move, works every time 🎀
• --no-daemon — do not detach mate-power-manager into the background, so that error messages will be displayed on console. aka it stays right there in your terminal being loud and honest about its problems. lowkey the move when you're debugging. 👀

ngl, if you want the daemon to actually go do its little background thing and leave you alone, don't pass --no-daemon. that's the whole point of it. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• mate-power-preferences (1) — your other bestie, the one with the actual buttons 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> for the Debian system, and updated by Ow Mun Heng <nikeow@yahoo.com>. shoutout to them, absolute legends for documenting this. 🫶✨

so yeah, that's the page — dated 29 March,2006, from the MATE-POWER-MANAGER(1) corner of the manual universe. still serving after all these years. slay. 💜🎀