TLP is an advanced tool that is handled only by the terminal and aims to manage the energy of our laptops, making better use of their battery.
I don't know if it's necessary to install this application if you already have a tool to manage power in KDE , GNOME , or Xfce ; however, if you want to try it, I'll tell you how. It would also be useful for users who only use Window Managers.
Users who have Yaourt installed only need to run:
$ sudo yaourt -S tlp
But I don't use that; I do things with makepkg . The problem is that when I tried to create the package to install it, I got an error because the PKGBUILD script was trying to access a folder that didn't exist.
Steps to install TLP
The first thing we need to do is install the dependencies that TLP requires:
$ sudo pacman -S hdparm wireless_tools rfkill ethtool
Now we need to clone the project from GitHub :
$ git clone https://github.com/linrunner/TLP.git
We downloaded the tarball with the necessary scripts for makepkg to work:
$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tl/tlp/tlp.tar.gz
We unzip it and run makepkg :
$ tar xfv tlp.tar.gz $ cd tlp $ makepkg
When the package tlp-0.3.9-9-any.pkg.tar.xz is created we install it with:
$ sudo pacman -U tlp-0.3.9-9-any.pkg.tar.xz
And that's it. As I have read, it is not necessary to do anything else, just enable the service and run it:
$ systemctl enable tlp.service $ systemctl start tlp.service
Then to see certain statistics or the devices of our computer we execute any of these 3 commands (separately):
$ sudo tlp-stat $ sudo tlp-pcilist $ sudo tlp-usblist