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    Battery overuse in Mint Cinnamon

    Well! What I have read about TLP is that it works by resetting some of default Linux settings and it does this by default after installation and then restart. All these default settings of TLP can be adjusted according to one's needs. Being quite a nerd in Linux I dare not change any of these...
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    Battery overuse in Mint Cinnamon

    No I didn't make any changes but after reading your message I think it is probably due to these default settings that I am seeing the weird behavior. If I do change the settings as you have described don't you think it will kill the very reason that I installed TLP for. Perhaps, this is how TLP...
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    Battery overuse in Mint Cinnamon

    Thanks LeoR for your kind help. Update: I installed TLP 3 days back but I have noticed that since I installed the app the performance has slowed down and also LibreOffice has started behaving weirdly -- it takes long time in starting print preview and sometimes is unable to restore previously...
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    Battery overuse in Mint Cinnamon

    Yes I am sure these should work fine for Mint as well. Anyway, I shall update you on this. Thanks again for your help. Kamran.
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    Battery overuse in Mint Cinnamon

    Update: Thanks for the help. I have installed TLP with Synaptic Manager. Now how do I configure it or does it work out of box?
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    Battery overuse in Mint Cinnamon

    Thanks to both Condobloke and Wizardfromoz. l'll sure give it a try and report back. I do hope that tlp will solve the problem. By the way, would you recommend switching to some other distro. I use linux Mint on my laptop as the main OS ad only need to work on Office suite (I use LibreOffice)...
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    Battery overuse in Mint Cinnamon

    I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon on my Lenovo Ideapad 151 since past 6-months. I have noted that since I installed Mint on my system its battery run out time has decreased. Initially I thought it was because my battery was getting older but the other day I read that it was a known problem with...
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