waybar-power-profiles-daemon(5)

Overview

The power-profiles-daemon module displays the active power-profiles-daemon profile and cycle through the available profiles on click.

Files

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/waybar/config

Configuration

Option	Typeof	Default	Description
format	string	"{icon}"	Message displayed on the bar. {icon} and {profile} are respectively substituted with the icon representing the active profile and its full name.
tooltip-format	string	"Power profile: {profile}\nDriver: {driver}"	Messaged displayed in the module tooltip. {icon} and {profile} are respectively substituted with the icon representing the active profile and its full name.
tooltip	bool	true	Display the tooltip.
format-icons	object	See default value in the example below.	Icons used to represent the various power-profile. Note: the default configuration uses the font-awesome icons. You may want to override it if you don't have this font installed on your system.
expand:	bool	false	Enables this module to consume all left over space dynamically.

Configuration examples

Compact display (default config):

"power-profiles-daemon": {
  "format": "{icon}",
  "tooltip-format": "Power profile: {profile}nDriver: {driver}",
  "tooltip": true,
  "format-icons": {
    "default": "",
    "performance": "",
    "balanced": "",
    "power-saver": ""
  }
}

Display the full profile name:

"power-profiles-daemon": {
  "format": "{icon}   {profile}",
  "tooltip-format": "Power profile: {profile}nDriver: {driver}",
  "tooltip": true,
  "format-icons": {
    "default": "",
    "performance": "",
    "balanced": "",
    "power-saver": ""
  }
}

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

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