Powerdevil fails, Energy settings unavailable

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manjaro-downgrade should be used instead.

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476375 – Powerdevil fails to start with ddcutil-2.0.0, spikes cpu usage to max every few seconds

For a better version of the workaround mentioned in this link see the other thread:

Frame drops below Vsync every coupel of secound, but killall org_kde_powerdevil fixes it

Hullo, For some reason they suggest editing /etc/xdg/autostart/powerdevil.desktop I will show you how to do this assuming the intended changes are desirable; Copy the powerdevil.desktop file from the system autostart directory to the one in your HOME, after making sure it exists: mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart cp /etc/xdg/autostart/powerdevil.desktop ~/.config/autostart/powerdevil.desktop Then edit the copied file, such as with micro: micro ~/.config/autostart/powerdevil.desktop To chan…