TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life

TLP is a feature-rich command line utility for Linux, saving laptop battery power without the need to delve deeper into technical details.

TLP’s default settings are already optimized for battery life and implement Powertop’s recommendations out of the box. So you may just install and forget it.

Nevertheless TLP is highly customizable to fulfil your specific requirements.

Latest News

• 17.02.2022 - How can I use Battery Care with my Laptop?

• 07.01.2022 - TLP 1.5 released

More news …

Welcome to TLP’s Documentation Site

The restructured site improves readability and facilitates access through a navigation sidebar. Can’t find something right away? Try the search field in the navbar.

Learn

As a new user read Introduction to learn about your benefits, then proceed with Installation and Usage. Finally Settings will tell you how to customize the configuration if desired. Find out about new features in the Changelog.

Resolve

If problems occur during use, you may want to check Frequently Asked Questions, Support and the Troubleshooting Guide.

Contribute

If you want to help, check out Contribute. Do you like to provide TLP packages for your distribution? Enter Developers.

Contents

• Introduction
  • How it works
  • Features
• Installation
  • Arch Linux
  • Debian
  • Fedora
  • Gentoo Linux
  • openSUSE
  • Ubuntu
  • Other Linux Distributions
• Usage
  • Start
  • Status
  • Version
  • Commands
• Settings
  • Introduction
  • Operation
  • Audio
  • Battery Care
  • Battery Care Vendor Specifics
  • Drive Bay
  • Disks and Controllers
  • File System
  • Graphics
  • Kernel
  • Networking
  • Platform
  • Processor
  • Radio Device Switching
  • Radio Device Wizard
  • Runtime Power Management and ASPM
  • USB
  • Trace Mode
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Installation
  • Settings
  • Audio
  • Battery Care
  • Disk Drives
  • Graphics
  • Input Devices
  • Operation
  • Powertop
  • Power Consumption
  • Processor
  • Radio Devices: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN
  • USB Devices
  • Warnings
  • Miscellaneous
• Support
  • Necessary Information
  • Bug Reports
  • Trace Mode
• Troubleshooting Guide
  • Step 1: Update your system
  • Step 2: Check the FAQ
  • Step 3: Disable TLP temporarily
  • Step 4: Determine affected power sources
  • Step 5: Is the causing device already known?
  • Step 6: Isolate the causing device
  • Step 7: Upgrade kernel or firmware
• Contribute
  • Support
  • Testing
  • Documentation
  • Code
  • Packages
• Developers
  • Source
  • Files
  • Makefile
  • Dependencies
  • Architecture
  • Installation Scripts
  • Debugging
  • Dev’s Changelog
• News
  • 17.02.2022 - How can I use Battery Care with my Laptop?
  • 07.01.2022 - TLP 1.5 released
  • 20.12.2021 - TLP 1.5 Beta 1 released
  • 24.09.2021 - TLP 1.4 released
  • 09.09.2021 - TLP 1.4 Beta 2 released / Call for Testers
  • 29.07.2021 - TLP 1.4 Beta 1 released / Call for Testers
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