Tray icon indicator for powerprofilesctl command (from power-profiles-daemon project) for laptop, with support of modern Ayatana Indicators.
This indicator is compatible with Debian 12 (bookworm), it combines well with debian-mate-ayatana-settings. For standalone use one should install three packages - power-profiles-daemon, gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1 and adwaita-icon-theme:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install power-profiles-daemon gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1 adwaita-icon-theme
Installation on the Debian 11 (bullseye) is possible too, but here user should download and install packages power-profiles-daemon and adwaita-icon-theme from Debian 12 (bookworm) repository manually.
To install this indicator for the current user use the commands below:
cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/N0rbert/powerprofilesctl-tray
cd powerprofilesctl-tray
mkdir ~/bin
cp -v powerprofilesctl-tray.py ~/bin/
chmod +x ~/bin/powerprofilesctl-tray.py
mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart/
cat <<EOF > ~/.config/autostart/powerprofilesctl-tray.py.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=python3 $HOME/bin/powerprofilesctl-tray.py
Hidden=false
Name[en_US]=powerprofilesctl-tray
Name=powerprofilesctl-tray
Comment[en_US]=powerprofilesctl-tray
Comment=powerprofilesctl-tray
X-MATE-Autostart-Delay=0
EOF
The installed indicator will be placed inside MATE Panel as tray icon and will look as shown below:
| Profile ↓ / Look → | Default Debian with MATE desktop task | Debian with modern Ayatana Indicators using debian-mate-ayatana-settings |
|---|---|---|
| Power-saver |  |
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| Balanced |  |
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| Performance |  |
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Removal procedure is simple:
rm -v ~/.config/autostart/powerprofilesctl-tray.py.desktop
rm -v ~/bin/powerprofilesctl-tray.py