waybar-power-profiles-daemon(5) File Formats Manual waybar-power-profiles-daemon(5)

waybar - power-profiles-daemon module

The power-profiles-daemon module displays the active power-profiles-daemon profile and cycle through the available profiles on click.

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/waybar/config

Option Typeof Default Description
format string "{icon}" Message displayed on the bar. {icon} and {profile} are respectively substituted with the icon representing the active profile and its full name.
tooltip-format string "Power profile: {profile}\nDriver: {driver}" Messaged displayed in the module tooltip. {icon} and {profile} are respectively substituted with the icon representing the active profile and its full name.
tooltip bool true Display the tooltip.
format-icons object See default value in the example below. Icons used to represent the various power-profile. Note: the default configuration uses the font-awesome icons. You may want to override it if you don't have this font installed on your system.

Compact display (default config):

"power-profiles-daemon": {
  "format": "{icon}",
  "tooltip-format": "Power profile: {profile}nDriver: {driver}",
  "tooltip": true,
  "format-icons": {
    "default": "",
    "performance": "",
    "balanced": "",
    "power-saver": ""
  }
}

Display the full profile name:

"power-profiles-daemon": {
  "format": "{icon}   {profile}",
  "tooltip-format": "Power profile: {profile}nDriver: {driver}",
  "tooltip": true,
  "format-icons": {
    "default": "",
    "performance": "",
    "balanced": "",
    "power-saver": ""
  }
}
2024-04-23