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LXQt power management watches your battery, laptop lid, and idleness on the screen. Each one of the checkbox is to battery laptop lid and idleness is a checkbox to enable or disable each. When you add when power is low select what you want to do suspend shutodwn hibernate or something.
LXQt power management watches your battery, laptop lid, and idleness on the screen. Each one of the checkbox is to battery laptop lid and idleness is a checkbox to enable or disable each.
The :guilabel:`Level is low at` changes when the battery is considered low power. The checkbox :guilabel:`Show icon` shows an icon in the tray for your power management. The checkbox :guilabel:`Use icons from theme` changes the appearance of your battery to be the battery icon from your icon theme.
The :guilabel:`Battery` tab has settings for monitoring your battery power level and some settings. On a laptop power management should show a + with a ring around it represeneting your current battery charge on your laptop when it is charging with a full green circle meaning you are fully charged in the system tray. If your battery is discharging you will see a - sybmol at the center of the circle. If you hover the mouse cursor over this it will show the percent of charge as a percentage and whether the battery is charging or discharging. When your battery is fully charged it will turn into a black circle.
The :guilabel:`Battery` tab has settings for monitoring your battery power level and some settings. On a laptop power management should show a + with a ring around it represeneting your current battery charge on your laptop when it is charging with a full green circle meaning you are fully charged in the system tray. If your battery is discharging you will see a - sybmol at the center of the circle. If you hover the mouse cursor over this it will show the percent of charge as a percentage and whether the battery is charging or discharging. When your battery is fully charged it will turn into a black circle.
The field :guilabel:`Enable Batter Watcher` Watches the battery on your system. The field :guilabel:`When Power is low then:` lets you choose what to do when your batter is low. The :guilabel:`Warning` field provides a duration to show a warning for low power. To change the level for low level of battery change the :guilabel:`Level is low at` field.
The field :guilabel:`Enable Batter Watcher` Watches the battery on your system. The field :guilabel:`When Power is low then:` lets you choose what to do when your batter is low. The :guilabel:`Warning` field provides a duration to show a warning for low power. To change the level for low level of battery change the :guilabel:`Level is low at` field. The checkbox :guilabel:`Use icons from theme` changes the appearance of your battery to be the battery icon from your icon theme.
The :guilabel:`Lid` tab manages settings for when you close your laptop lid. The lid watcher lets you choose to suspend or shut off your computer when the lid is closed on battery or on AC. The checkbox for :guilabel:`Enable Lid Watcher` enables actions to be taken when the laptop lid is closed and of course unchecking means it won't take any action. The :guilabel:`On battery` field changes what action to take when your laptop which each does it like it sounds like. The :guilabel:`On AC` is changes what action to take when your laptop lid is closed and it is plugged into power.
The :guilabel:`Lid` tab manages settings for when you close your laptop lid. The lid watcher lets you choose to suspend or shut off your computer when the lid is closed on battery or on AC. The checkbox for :guilabel:`Enable Lid Watcher` enables actions to be taken when the laptop lid is closed and of course unchecking means it won't take any action. The :guilabel:`On battery` field changes what action to take when your laptop which each does it like it sounds like. The :guilabel:`On AC` is changes what action to take when your laptop lid is closed and it is plugged into power.
