this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can also do alt+left/right if you're already on a tty :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Arent you always on a tty though (unless youe sshd or something)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought you should use display server when you have dedicated GPU as the display server configures power save and power state while TTY doesn't, at least by default. For me nvidia-smi reports 100W in TTY and ~20W on X

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Display servers don't configure power settings, but desktop environments can. You can enable them while in a TTY.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

hm, maybe my terminology is off. But alt+left/right won't work from X11 or Wayland

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wish I could live in the TTY, but I'm stuck in X11/Wayland.