Using tdepowersave - tde-users

1 Apr 2025


      I installed tdepowersave. Clicking the system tray icon pops open a 
display dialog that does not fit the laptop screen. The 15 inch 
1920x1080 screen resolution is not the problem -- the dialog is too long 
vertically to fit the screen. Try as I might I could not resize the 
dialog and the dialog has no scroll bar.
The design of this dialog seems untested because many if not a majority 
of laptop screens are 14 inch -- some even smaller. As with most things 
I accept my own ignorance and naivety might be to blame. Nonetheless I 
get the feeling this dialog was designed on a large laptop -- no scroll 
bar? Or perhaps was tested only on a dual core laptop. (There are other 
dialogs like this, such as in KControl, that are not resizable and don't 
fit on a laptop screen)
One issue here is the laptop CPU is 4-core, but 8 threads. The dialog 
code (actually the kernel code) interprets this as 8 cores. While CPU 
usage is interesting, I think the information is superfluous to energy 
saving. Most people, at least me, are concerned only with the batteries.
* Is there a way to resize this dialog? I tried clicking the title bar, 
using Move and Resize to no avail.
* Is there a way to remove the CPU usage information? Nice info but not 
needed here.
* Is there a way to configure tdepowersave not to automatically start 
when there is no battery? The user account I use on my laptop is synced 
to my office desktop where there are no batteries and no real concern 
with energy usage.
Not too get carried away. Seems to be a decent tool but as often is the 
case, I seem to be a user outside the expected usage bell curve.
Thanks.