TLPUI Is A Graphical User Interface For TLP Power Management Tool (Ubuntu Installation Instructions)
TLP is an advanced power management tool for optimizing battery life on laptops running Linux. Its default configuration is usually enough to see an improvement in battery life, however, TLP offers a wide range of configuration options which can be changed by editing its configuration file.
TLP is a command line tool and it doesn't come with a graphical user interface, but there is a third-party GTK GUI (written in Python) interface for TLP, called TLPUI.
TLPUI is considered to be beta software. In this development stage, it can read, display and save the TLP configuration, show information about configuration changes (the default values and saved/unsaved state), as well as display
The tool project page mentions that TLPUI still needs some translation optimizations. There are also no binaries right now so to use TLPUI you'll need to install it from source.
[[Edit 18 Feb, 2020]] TLPUI has been updated to support the new configuration scheme found in the latest TLP 1.3 (it supports the configuration the latest TLP 1.3, and older versions to TLP 0.8). To be able to use TLPUI with TLP 1.3 support, get the latest Git code of TLPUI (the Ubuntu PPA has been updated with the latest Git).
Update: you can now install TLPUI in Ubuntu or Linux Mint by using a PPA.
Below you'll find instructions for installing TLPUI in Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint (and Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distributions like elementary OS, etc.) from source. The steps below will generate a TLPUI DEB package, which you can easily install and remove.
1. Install TLP
TLPUI doesn't work without TLP so the first thing you need to do is install TLP. The tool is available in the Ubuntu repositories starting with Ubuntu 16.04 / Linux Mint 18 and in all supported Debian releases. You can install it using this command:
There's also a TLP PPA you can use to get the latest TLP version on older Ubuntu / Linux Mint releases. You can find PPA installation instructions (and instructions on installing TLP in other Linux distributions) on this page.
2. Install packages required to download and build a TLPUI DEB package
TLPUI depends on PyGObject. To get the latest code from Git we'll need to install
To install these packages in Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, use:
3. Get TLPUI from GitHub, build a DEB package and install it:
The
There is no menu entry for TLPUI so to start it you'll need to either press
After making any changes to your TLP configuration using TLPUI, remember to select
TLP is a command line tool and it doesn't come with a graphical user interface, but there is a third-party GTK GUI (written in Python) interface for TLP, called TLPUI.
TLPUI is considered to be beta software. In this development stage, it can read, display and save the TLP configuration, show information about configuration changes (the default values and saved/unsaved state), as well as display
tlp-stat statistics. |
| TLPUI showing an option was changed (and needs to be saved to be applied) and its default value |
The tool project page mentions that TLPUI still needs some translation optimizations. There are also no binaries right now so to use TLPUI you'll need to install it from source.
[[Edit 18 Feb, 2020]] TLPUI has been updated to support the new configuration scheme found in the latest TLP 1.3 (it supports the configuration the latest TLP 1.3, and older versions to TLP 0.8). To be able to use TLPUI with TLP 1.3 support, get the latest Git code of TLPUI (the Ubuntu PPA has been updated with the latest Git).
How to install TLPUI in Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint
Update: you can now install TLPUI in Ubuntu or Linux Mint by using a PPA.
Below you'll find instructions for installing TLPUI in Ubuntu, Debian or Linux Mint (and Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distributions like elementary OS, etc.) from source. The steps below will generate a TLPUI DEB package, which you can easily install and remove.
1. Install TLP
TLPUI doesn't work without TLP so the first thing you need to do is install TLP. The tool is available in the Ubuntu repositories starting with Ubuntu 16.04 / Linux Mint 18 and in all supported Debian releases. You can install it using this command:
sudo apt install tlp tlp-rdw
sudo tlp startThere's also a TLP PPA you can use to get the latest TLP version on older Ubuntu / Linux Mint releases. You can find PPA installation instructions (and instructions on installing TLP in other Linux distributions) on this page.
2. Install packages required to download and build a TLPUI DEB package
TLPUI depends on PyGObject. To get the latest code from Git we'll need to install
git. And to build the package, python3-setuptools and python3-stdeb need to be installed (along with some other packages that are automatically installed as dependencies of these two).To install these packages in Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, use:
sudo apt install python3-gi git python3-setuptools python3-stdeb3. Get TLPUI from GitHub, build a DEB package and install it:
git clone https://github.com/d4nj1/TLPUI
cd TLPUI
python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/python3-tlpui_*all.debThe
dpkg command installs the generated TLPUI DEB package (python3-tlpui_0.1-1_all.deb), but you can also install it using a graphical tool. You'll find the generated TLPUI DEB package in the TLPUI/deb_dist folder.There is no menu entry for TLPUI so to start it you'll need to either press
ALT + F2 or open a terminal and type:tlpuiAfter making any changes to your TLP configuration using TLPUI, remember to select
File > Save in TLPUI to actually save any changes you may have made to the TLP configuration.
