tuned-switcher - Man Page

simple utility to manipulate the Tuned service

Synopsis

tuned-switcher

Description

Tuned Switcher is a simple utility to manipulate the Tuned service.

Tuned is a daemon for monitoring and adaptive tuning of system devices.

In order to use this program, a daemon must be installed on your system.

Command-Line Options

No custom command-line options available.

Application Modes

Available modes

This software can operate in two modes:

  • system tray icon (aka applet) - default and recommended mode controlled by the system tray icon;
  • GUI application (aka widget) - simplified mode for desktop environments without a system tray support.

Modes auto-selection

If current desktop environment has a system tray support, an applet will be used, otherwise a widget.

This behavior can be overridden using the environment variable.

Environment Options

Environment variables can be used to override some settings.

Supported options

  • TUNED_SWITCHER_FORCE_GUI=1 - force widget mode even if the system tray support is present.

Forwarding options

Export the environment variable using the export command:

export TUNED_SWITCHER_FORCE_GUI=1

Start the application:

tuned-switcher

Startup

Tuned startup

Enable startup of the Tuned service to automatically apply performance profile settings at system boot.

If the system supports systemd, it can be done using the systemctl tool:

sudo systemctl enable --now tuned.service

Application startup

To enable program startup, the autorun settings of current desktop environment should be used.

Authors

Copyright (c) 2021-2025 EasyCoding Team and contributors.

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