{"id":5319,"date":"2015-09-29T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2015-09-29T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:23:20","slug":"install-laptop-mode-tools-ubuntu-1510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/09\/install-laptop-mode-tools-ubuntu-1510\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Laptop Mode Tools 1.68.1 in Ubuntu 15.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/extend-battery-life.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/extend-battery-life.png\" alt=\"Laptop Mode Tools\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/extend-battery-life.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/extend-battery-life-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laptop Mode Tools, power saving tool for Linux laptop, got a new release two days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install\/upgrade it in Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, and Ubuntu 14.04.<\/p>\n<p>This is a point release of Laptop Mode Tools 1.68 that updates details about runtime-pm in manpage, reverts &#8220;Drop out reload&#8221; feature, offers a more descriptive log error, repairs issues with stdout descriptor, and brings a couple of bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laptop-mode-tools-gui.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laptop-mode-tools-gui-450x324.jpg\" alt=\"laptop mode tools configure interface\" width=\"450\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laptop-mode-tools-gui-450x324.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laptop-mode-tools-gui-600x432.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/laptop-mode-tools-gui.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install Laptop Mode Tools 1.68.1:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>NOTE: Laptop Mode Tools conflicts with TLP (they are doing the same thing). You have to remove TLP if installed before installing this software!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Besides building it from the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rickysarraf\/laptop-mode-tools\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">source tarball<\/a>, you may install the binary package from my personal PPA. Just open terminal from the Dash, Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T key. When it opens, run below commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install python-qt4 laptop-mode-tools<\/pre>\n<p>Or download the <b>.deb<\/b> installer (98K) directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/ubuntuhandbook1\/apps\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/l\/laptop-mode-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\">THIS PAGE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, run below command in terminal to launch the configuration UI (see above pic.):<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">gksu lmt-config-gui<\/pre>\n<p>Install <code>gksu<\/code> from Software Center if need. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laptop Mode Tools, power saving tool for Linux laptop, got a new release two days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install\/upgrade it in Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, and Ubuntu 14.04. This is a point release of Laptop Mode Tools 1.68 that updates details about runtime-pm in manpage, reverts &#8220;Drop out reload&#8221; feature, offers a more descriptive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1293,1005],"class_list":["post-5319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-laptop-mode-tools","tag-ubuntu-laptop-power-saving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}