#[SOLVED] power profiles daemon slider glitching

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tranquil shale
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You have not described your problem adequately.
What is your DE? Where are you seeing a "slider" that could be bugged? What are you referencing?
Can you possibly provide screenshots? etc.

Assume you're trying to explain this to somebody that doesn't know jack about your computer - because that's what you should be trying to do.

gusty mason
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i cannot provide with videos because my phone has disabled recordings for a moment, it needs to charge up a little bit

gusty mason
gusty mason
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it's like moving very fast when i click on it, to balanced and to performance really quickly

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and from power saving to balanced quickly too

tranquil shale
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Be specific. Which slider where? A slider in a KDE menu? Which KDE menu?

gusty mason
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thingy

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power managment

tranquil shale
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That is far more descriptive.
So the KDE power menu has a slider which seems stuck on "Performance" and refuses to change its value when trying to via the GUI.
At a first glance I can't really see what would be the bug.
This looks like a KDE issue or KDE not having write permission to change the value somehow.

As an interim solution, you can try to do this via the commandline in a terminal.
You can check if powerprofilesctl is available to you via running powerprofilesctl --help.
If it is, you can use powerprofilesctl list to see a list of available power states and powerprofilesctl set <value from list> to set a given state

gusty mason
tranquil shale
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Ah, intel

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powerprofilesctl set balanced should set it to balanced

gusty mason
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how do i fix this then?

tranquil shale
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Beyond me as I neither use KDE, nor know what exactly could've gone wrong here. I can give you tools to work around the issue, not an actual fix.
This could be a KDE bug, this could be an incorrectly set permission that was set during installation or who knows what.

I'd jot myself the usage of powerprofilesctl as an interim solution down and google with something along the lines of "KDE power management stuck on performance"

gusty mason
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alr ty

gusty mason