Laptop Mode Tools 1.72 Ported To Python 3 & PyQt5

Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 1 February 2018 at 04:45 PM EST. 5 Comments
HARDWARE
For those making use of laptop-mode-tools as one of several Linux power saving tools with this one designed to improve Linux laptop battery life, version 1.72 is now available after more than one year of development.

While the version may not imply it being a big release, Laptop Mode Tools 1.72 is actually significant. With laptop-mode-tools 1.72, the program has been ported to Python 3 and is using PyQt5 for rendering its user-interface.

Laptop Mode Tools 1.72 also can now tweak the commit interval for Btrfs file-systems, support for controlling all available Radeon GPUs via radeon-dpm, and a variety of other minor improvements.

More details on Laptop Mode Tools 1.72 can be found via today's release announcement or heading straight to the GitHub site.
Related News
About The Author
Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

Popular News This Week