How should I monitor which apps are draining my battery?

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Can anyone here recommend a manner of monitoring apps that utilize the most battery power on my ThinkPad? I have seen some people use PowerTOP, but I’m not sure if it conflicts with the power-profiles-daemon that Fedora is using these days.

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Hello @bmreading ,
I don’t think it would be a problem to use PowerTop if it is available in the repo. As an aside, they may share some of the same metric’s but AFAIK ptop is monitor only.

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You can apply recommended changes in powertop in the Tunables tab directly. AFAIR, they are applied permanently.

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I did not know that. Thank you.

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You need to enable the powertop systemd service I belive:

sudo systemctl enable powertop