Battery and power management on Omarchy

Battery handling on Omarchy 4.x is split between three things: power-profiles-daemon, which Omarchy installs and enables; a small set of shell scripts under omarchy-battery-* and omarchy-powerprofiles-*; and the Quickshell power panel on Super + Ctrl + P. Version 4.0.0 replaced the old Waybar battery module and the udev-driven profile switching with that shell, and most of the open complaints on 4.0.4 are about what the new panel reports rather than about power management itself.

Status on 4.0.4

Power management itself is not what people report. Profiles switch on plug and unplug as the manual describes, the 10 percent warning fires on a plain battery discharge, and thermal daemons are installed for you on Intel laptops.

Reporting is where it breaks. Checked against the v4.0.4 source tree, three of the most reported problems are visible directly in the shipped code, and all three are open: only the first battery pack is read, the low-battery warning depends on a daemon-wide flag rather than on the battery’s own state, and the charge limit shown in the panel is not the limit the firmware is enforcing.

Sleep and resume are a separate subsystem with their own failure modes. See suspend, sleep and resume.

What Omarchy does automatically

On any install:

• Installs power-profiles-daemon from the base package list and enables it at install time.
• Runs omarchy-powerprofiles-init from the Hyprland autostart, which sets the profile matching your current power source on every login.
• Remembers explicit profile choices separately for AC and battery under ~/.local/state/omarchy/powerprofiles/. With no saved choice you get performance on AC and balanced on battery.
• Re-applies the profile whenever UPower reports a power source change, which is what replaced the 3.x udev rules.
• Ignores the physical power key at the logind level, so a stray press does not shut you down.
• Holds a 15 second inhibitor before sleep so the session can lock first.
• Keeps Wi-Fi power save off on purpose. The shipped NetworkManager drop-in notes that it trades latency spikes for a fraction of a watt, and that some Intel BE200 and BE211 firmware drops the link when the radio naps.
• Disables zswap in favour of swap on zram, and skips the plocate index update while on battery.

On Intel laptops with a battery present, the install also adds thermald for Sandy Bridge and newer, and intel-lpmd for the hybrid cores in Alder Lake through Panther Lake. Both are gated on omarchy-battery-present, so desktops do not get them.

Hibernation is opt-in. omarchy hibernation setup creates a /swap btrfs subvolume with a RAM-sized swapfile, adds the resume mkinitcpio hook and the matching Limine kernel parameters, and installs a sleep hook that turns the keyboard backlight off before S4 because some ASUS keyboard controllers block the power-off with the LEDs lit.

Known problems

The big one is drain, not reporting. When a laptop that used to get hours suddenly gets minutes, the usual cause is a discrete NVIDIA GPU that never enters a low power state. Issue #1776 is the long-running version of this and drew 29 reactions before it was closed with a pointer to the hybrid GPU toggle. Issue #8648, a GTX 1650 HP Pavilion that went from full to empty in ten minutes after the 4.0.0 update, is less clear-cut: the reporter later noted the pack has dead cells, and a second reporter with an HP Victus saw 20 percent gone in the same ten minutes. Omarchy 4.x ships omarchy toggle hybrid gpu, which drives supergfxd to park the dGPU in integrated mode, plus a sleep hook that re-parks it after a wake.

Known issues

Issue	Models	Status	Fixed in
#11990 only the first battery pack is read	dual-battery ThinkPads, Surface Book 2	open	not yet
#10939 low-battery warning suppressed while docked	any laptop drawing more than its dock supplies	open	not yet
#9670 low-battery warning repeats every few seconds	laptops whose USB-C PD line flaps at low charge	open	not yet
#12005 widget says Charging while discharging	MacBook Air M2 on Asahi	open	not yet
#10344, #7374 charge limit misreported	ASUS Zenbook, ThinkPads	open	not yet
#6895 power draw shows 0W	HP Pavilion Gaming 15-dk0xxx	open	not yet
#8536 power panel never opens without a battery	desktops and mini PCs with no battery	open, and the acceptance suite asserts the panel is hidden without battery hardware	not yet
#8648 very fast drain after updating to 4.0.0	HP Pavilion and Victus gaming laptops, GTX 1650	open	not yet
#12095 USB autosuspend drop-in is a no-op	Intel Bluetooth controllers	open	not yet
#12096 hibernation removal leaves resume parameters	Limine plus btrfs installs	open	not yet
#12190 linux-omarchy hangs entering suspend	Dell XPS 13 DX13260, Wildcat Lake	open	not yet

A few of these are worth spelling out. The dual-battery bug is a single head -n 1 in omarchy-battery-status; the bar icon uses UPower’s aggregate device while the panel text uses the script, so the percentage above the progress bar and the bar itself can show different numbers at once. At least four unmerged pull requests propose the same fix, including PR #11750.

The warning bugs share one root. The low-battery check requires UPower’s daemon-wide on-battery flag, not the battery device’s own state, so a dock that supplies less power than the machine draws hides the warning entirely, and a flapping power line resets the already-warned latch on every event. One reporter logged roughly 260 critical popups over fourteen minutes before the machine died.

Fixes that work

Work down this list.

1. Confirm what your hardware actually reports before blaming Omarchy. upower -i $(upower -e | grep BAT | head -1) and cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/power_now. If UPower has the right number and the panel does not, it is a reporting bug, not a power bug.
2. For fast drain on a hybrid laptop, park the discrete GPU with omarchy toggle hybrid gpu. It installs supergfxctl if needed, switches the mode to Integrated and reboots. After the reboot, check with cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/power/runtime_status that the dGPU reads suspended.
3. Set the profile you want per power source explicitly: omarchy powerprofiles set battery power-saver. It sticks for that source across reboots.
4. For a laptop that only drains hard while asleep, the problem is suspend, not the battery. Read suspend, sleep and resume and suspend will not resume.
5. For a charge limit, write charge_control_end_threshold yourself or use your vendor tool. There is no Omarchy toggle on 4.0.4; PR #12177 proposes one and is unmerged.
6. If you want deeper tuning than three profiles offer, community discussion #3907 documents replacing power-profiles-daemon with TLP. Remove or mask the daemon first, because the two fight over the same knobs and Omarchy’s own profile commands stop working once it is gone.
7. If suspend started hanging on 4.0.4 specifically, boot the stock linux or linux-lts kernel from the Limine menu. The bespoke linux-omarchy kernel became the default boot entry in 4.0.4, and #12190 is a detailed open report of it hanging on suspend entry where stock linux 7.2.3 does not.

On 3.x the profile switching came from udev rules under /etc/udev/rules.d/. A 4.x migration removes the vulnerable versions of those rules, so do not expect to find them any more.

Report it

Run omarchy debug, which collects inxi -Farz, dmesg, this boot’s journal warnings and errors, and your package list, and offers to upload it. Add the output of upower -d, powerprofilesctl, omarchy-battery-status --shell, and ls /sys/class/power_supply/. For drain reports, add the runtime status of your GPU, or powertop output if you install it; Omarchy does not ship it. For anything involving a dock or charger, include the online state of every Mains and USB supply, because most of the warning bugs turn on exactly that.

Check the open issues first. Battery reporting has heavy duplication: the single dual-battery bug alone has more than ten separate reports.

Related

• Suspend, sleep and resume
• Battery drains fast
• Hybrid GPU laptops
• Hibernate fails or hangs
• omarchy-battery-status and omarchy-powerprofiles-set
• Omarchy manual: System sleep