setting /xfce4-power-manager/critical-power-level to 55

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:52 AM, killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 31.03.2015 um 09:40 schrieb Liviu Andronic:
>> Dear all,
>> My laptop battery has started going haywire (it would only charge to
>> 50% of its design capacity), so I need xfce4-power-manager to Suspend
>> at something like 55% of charge when on battery.
>>
>> However, I notice that I can't set up critical-power-level at anything
>> above 20%. If instead I try to use the Settings Editor and set
>> /xfce4-power-manager/critical-power-level to 55, it seems to save the
>> value but in the xfpm GUI I can see instead the default "10%", and I
>> get no suspend/notification at 55%. So I guess the Settings Editor
>> value  is simply ignored.
>>
>> Is there a way to have a critical-power-level above 20% with xfpm?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Liviu
>>
> Instead of working around your bad battery you should recalibrate it. This will tell the battery firmware what the new high and low values are. How to do this depends on your battery.
>
I see. I have a Dell laptop. Any ideas how to approach recalibrating
it? Is BIOS, perhaps some hardware specific tool?

Thanks,
Liviu


> Regards
> killermoehre
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