xfce4-power-manager(1)

Usage

xfce4-power-manager [options]

Overview

xfce4-power-manager manages the power sources on the computer and the devices that can be controlled to reduce their power consumption (such as LCD brightness level, monitor sleep). In addition, xfce4-power-manager provides a set of freedesktop-compliant DBus interfaces to inform other applications about current power level so that they can adjust their power consumption, and it provides the inhibit interface which allows applications to prevent automatic sleep actions via the power manager; as an example, the operating system's package manager should make use of this interface while it is performing update operations.

You can run xfce4-power-manager from the command line without specifying any extra arguments.

Options

--daemon: Starts the power manager in daemon mode.

--debug: Have the power manager print debug messages to the console; useful if you have to send in a bug report.

--dump: Have the power manager print the configuration information to the console.

--restart: Causes the running power manager to restart.

--customize: Shows the configuration dialog.

--quit: Causes any running instance of xfce4-power-manager to exit.

--version: Show the version information.

Homepage

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/start

Manpage authors

Ali Abdallah <[email protected]>, Robby Workman <[email protected]>, Eric Koegel <[email protected]>.

History

Arch Linux 2026-11-01 to Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 11 (Bullseye)
Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 9 (Stretch)
Debian 8 (Jessie)
Debian 7 (Wheezy) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

--daemon since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --debug since Debian 8 (Jessie); --dump since Debian 8 (Jessie); --version since Debian 8 (Jessie).

--no-daemon until Debian 10 (Buster).