From eedf71f94807e528ae64c51eda8186f7e48416cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 23:48:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] services: upower: Default to a percentage-based policy. This is the documented default of UPower 0.99.15 (the actual default appears to be #f though). * gnu/services/desktop.scm () [use-percentage-for-policy?]: Default to #t. * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Adjust accordingly. Explain the tradeoff. --- doc/guix.texi | 7 ++++--- gnu/services/desktop.scm | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index e111801e67..95b4fb1b2c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -22756,9 +22756,10 @@ Enable polling the kernel for battery level changes. @item @code{ignore-lid?} (default: @code{#f}) Ignore the lid state, this can be useful if it's incorrect on a device. -@item @code{use-percentage-for-policy?} (default: @code{#f}) -Whether battery percentage based policy should be used. The default is to use -the time left, change to @code{#t} to use the percentage. +@item @code{use-percentage-for-policy?} (default: @code{#t}) +Whether a to use a policy based on battery percentage rather than on +estimated time left. A policy based on battery percentage is usually +more reliable. @item @code{percentage-low} (default: @code{20}) When @code{use-percentage-for-policy?} is @code{#t}, this sets the percentage diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm index 6bad2b5ecd..07e7500847 100644 --- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm +++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ (ignore-lid? upower-configuration-ignore-lid? (default #f)) (use-percentage-for-policy? upower-configuration-use-percentage-for-policy? - (default #f)) + (default #t)) (percentage-low upower-configuration-percentage-low (default 20)) (percentage-critical upower-configuration-percentage-critical