Make power profile defaults configurable

[crmne]

Summary

This is a smaller version of #5621: no menu, just a persistent config file.

omarchy-powerprofiles-set now reads:

# ~/.config/omarchy/powerprofiles.conf
ac=performance
battery=balanced

Those are today's defaults, so behavior is unchanged unless the user edits the file. If the file is missing or contains an unavailable profile, the helper falls back to the existing defaults.

The existing udev rule is unchanged. This makes the Omarchy helper configurable and seeds the default config file.

One important detail: udev launches the helper through the system manager, so $HOME is not guaranteed to be the desktop user's home. The helper therefore still honors OMARCHY_CONFIG_HOME first, but otherwise derives the user config path from its installed executable path under ~/.local/share/omarchy/bin. That lets the same config file work from boot, Hyprland autostart, and udev AC/USB events without changing the udev rule.

Why

Editing the udev rule directly does not hold up as a persistent user preference:

• boot applies the profile outside udev via omarchy-powerprofiles-init
• Omarchy regenerates/replaces the power-profile udev rule during migrations/updates
• udev/systemd runs the helper outside the user session, so relying on $HOME alone can miss ~/.config/omarchy/powerprofiles.conf

This gives users an Omarchy-supported override without changing defaults for everyone.

Testing

• bash -n bin/omarchy-powerprofiles-set migrations/1780735021.sh
• git diff --check
• bin/omarchy-powerprofiles-set ac with local ac=balanced
• smoke-tested an installed-path helper with HOME=/root and ac=balanced, verifying it still reads the user config from the executable path
• smoke-tested OMARCHY_CONFIG_HOME override precedence
• OMARCHY_CONFIG_HOME=/tmp/omarchy-powerprofiles-migration-test/.config/omarchy OMARCHY_PATH=/home/carmine/Code/omarchy bash migrations/1780735021.sh

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Pull request overview

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Adds a user-configurable default power profile configuration so omarchy-powerprofiles-set can choose AC/battery profiles based on persisted settings.

Changes:

• Add a migration to install a default powerprofiles.conf into the user config directory (if missing).
• Add config/omarchy/powerprofiles.conf with default ac/battery profile mappings.
• Update omarchy-powerprofiles-set to read and validate configured profiles before falling back to hard-coded defaults.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
migrations/1780735021.sh	Creates the config directory and seeds powerprofiles.conf if it doesn’t exist.
config/omarchy/powerprofiles.conf	Introduces default AC/battery profile mappings.
bin/omarchy-powerprofiles-set	Loads profile defaults from config and applies them if valid.

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[MrDach]

This would be great to be able to configure! My Dell Latitude with an i7 will also start taking off if I keep it in performance mode.

For now I've added the following to ~/.config/hypr/autostart.conf

exec-once = sh -c 'sleep 3; powerprofilesctl set balanced'

Which is a terrible hack but I just get annoyed by having to do the change manually on every boot.

Shame that your config menu PR was closed.

[crmne]

Thanks for the comment @MrDach. I know a ton of people having the same problem.