Ubuntu
gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #1988889
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1988889

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

That's not the correct way to tell whether the Power Mode has been changed.

The GNOME Quick Settings feature in the top right of the screen has a complicated Power Mode switcher. The power mode button toggles between Balanced and whichever mode you selected last. Therefore, it needs to keep track of the last power mode selected that isn't Balanced. That's all that dconf/gsettings value is showing you.

You can get your current power mode by running this command:
powerprofilesctl get

I'm going to close this bug since I believe the issues here are fixed. Please feel free to open a new bug if you have additional issues.