UPower
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UPower (previously DeviceKit-power) is a piece of middleware (an abstraction layer) for power management on Linux systems. It enumerates power sources, maintains statistics and history data on them and notifies about status changes. It consists of a daemon (upowerd), an application programming interface and a set of command line tools. The daemon provides its functionality to applications over the system bus (an instance of D-Bus, service org.freedesktop.UPower). PolicyKit restricts access to the UPower functionality for initiating hibernate mode or shutting down the operating system (freedesk
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- upower.freedesktop.org
- Image
- Xfce4 pop-up notification draining battery.png
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- has command line option
- --enumerate
- software version identifier
- 1.91.2
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
- operating system
- Arch Linux
- Commons category
- UPower
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower
- programmed in
- C
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