PM-POWERSAVE(8)

💤 PM-POWERSAVE(8) — bestie edition 💤

okay so this is the pm-utils User Manual page for pm-powersave(8), and honestly? it's giving "let your laptop nap so it doesn't die at 3pm" energy. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

pm-powersave — put your computer into low power mode 🔋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pm-powersave [{true | false}]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the pm-powersave command. short and sweet, fr fr.

pm-powersave can be used to set your system into low power mode. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 💅

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• true — puts the computer into low power mode, so it uses less energy and your laptop's battery life gets extended. main character energy for your battery tbh 🔋✨
• false — turns low power mode off. back to normal, no powersave, we're just vibing at full power ⚡

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🌸 FILES 🌸

• /etc/pm/power.d/, /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/ — okay so when you run pm-powersave, it combines the scripts in these two directories and executes them in sorted order. and here's the tea: if both directories have a script with the same name, the one in /etc/pm/power.d/ has higher precedence, and only that one gets executed. the other one just sits there, ignored, not invited to the party 🫶

so, therefore, to disable a script from /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/, simply create an empty file in /etc/pm/power.d/ with the same name — and don't set the executable bit on it. that's the whole trick, iykyk. 🧚

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• pm-suspend(8)
• pm-hibernate(8)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> — manpage author. the icon who wrote this all up 🫡

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright © 2007 Michael Biebl

This manual page was originally written for the Debian(TM) system, and has been adopted by the pm-utils project. 🌈

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

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and that's the page, bestie!! this was pm-powersave from the pm-utils User Manual, dated Mar 5, 2007 — yeah it's an old one but she still slays 💖 go forth and save that power 🦋✨