---
name: "pm-powersave"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "pm-utils"
version: "1.4.1-21"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pm-powersave"
---

# pm-powersave(8)

Put your computer into low power mode

## NAME

pm-powersave - Put your computer into low power mode

## SYNOPSIS

**pm-powersave** \[{**true** \| **false**}\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **pm-powersave** command.

**pm-powersave** can be used to set your system into low power mode.

## OPTIONS

**true**

Put the computer into low power mode to reduce energy consumption and extend your laptop's battery life.

**false**

Turn off low power mode.

## FILES

/etc/pm/power.d/, /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/

When you run **pm-powersave** it combines the scripts in these two directories and executes them in sorted order. If both directories contain a script with the same name, the one in /etc/pm/power.d/ has a higher precedence and only this one will be executed.

Therefore to disable a script from /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/ simply create an empty file in /etc/pm/power.d/ with the same name and without the executable bit set.

## SEE ALSO

[**pm-suspend**(8)](/pm-suspend/8.md), [**pm-hibernate**(8)](/pm-hibernate/8.md)

## AUTHOR

**Michael Biebl** \<biebl@debian.org\>

Manpage author.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007 Michael Biebl\

This manual page was originally written for the Debian(TM) system, and has been adopted by the pm-utils project.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.