Using Custom Charge Thresholds with GNOME’s Preserve Battery Health Feature

Posted by linuxer on Apr 30, 2025 9:13 AM CST
linuxconfig.org; By Egidio Docile
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GNOME is probably the most used desktop environment on Linux; its latest iteration (codename “Bengaluru”), ships with many performance improvements and some new features, as the ability to limit the battery charge straight from the “control center”, in order to preserve its health and increase its lifespan. By default, when this feature is active, a battery will start charging only when under 75% of its capacity, and will stop charging when it reaches 80%. In this tutorial, we learn how to replace those values with custom ones.

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