Saving Power by Using Profiles

Power management profiles let you adjust various power management parameters to the requirements of certain typical situations you are facing when using your machine. openSUSE® ships with a set of four preconfigured profiles which you can adjust to your needs. To switch profiles, click the battery monitor panel icon and select a different Power Profile. The following profiles are available by default:

Performance

Keep your machine running with full power and full speed to achieve maximum performance.

Presentation

Disable any display power management and screen savers to make sure that your presentation is not interrupted by a blanked display or something similar.

Powersave

Apply power management methods to make sure that your machine runs as long as possible when put on battery power instead of AC power.

Aggressive Powersave

Apply stricter power management methods when the battery is at a low level. These include shorter idle intervals before triggering suspend events, reducing screen brightness, disabling 3D effects and using CPU scaling policies that preserve resources.

Xtreme Powersave

Apply extreme power saving by reducing screen brightness even more and using stricter idle time and CPU scaling policies when the battery is already at warning level.