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Laptop Mode Tools is a package that allows you to extend the battery life of your laptop by enabling the Laptop Mode Linux kernel feature along with other power-related tweaks.

This was a command line only tool until version 1.64, which introduces a GUI that lets you toggle individual power saving modules. The new GUI configuration tool isn’t exactly pretty as you can see in the screenshot below, but it’s definitely an useful addition because it no longer requires users to work with various configuration files.

The GUI is written in PyQT and the options are generated at runtime, based on the list of available power saving modules.