Jupiter – Light weight power and hardware control applet

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Jupiter is a light weight power and hardware control applet for Linux. It is designed to improve battery life of a portable Linux computer by integrating with the operating system and changing parameters of the computer based on battery or powered connection.

Additionally, Jupiter provides quick access to some of the commonly needed hardware controls like screen output and resolution, WIFI, and bluetooth.

If you use Linux on a portable computer, let Jupiter take the effort out of going mobile.

Features

Automatically adjusts CPU mode for AC or battery
Automatically tunes the kernel for AC or battery
Automatically tunes hardware for AC or battery
Supports Asus Super Hybrid Engine (SHE)
Remembers and applies last selected configuration
Fast and efficient, low resource utilization
Easily Customizable

Install jupiter in ubuntu

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/jupiter
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jupiter

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How to change CPU speed display in Fahrenheit

By default the temperature in Celsius is hard-wired into Jupiter.

If youwant to change CPU speed display in Celsius to Fahrenheit use the following procedure

First backup your copy of existing jupiter configuration file

cp /usr/bin/jupiter ~/jupiter

Next edit the file:

gksudo gedit /usr/bin/jupiter

Find the following section in the file:

def get_temperature(self):
temp = int(self.collect_data(self.temp))
temp = temp / 1000
return str(temp) + ‘ ºC'

change to:

def get_temperature(self):
temp = int(self.collect_data(self.temp))
temp = temp / 1000
temp = ((temp * 9) / 5) + 32
return str(temp) + ‘ ºF'

Save, logout and login.

After changing this you need to disable your jupiter PPA otherwise when you update next time this will overwrite this change


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8 Responses

  1. dunbrokin says:

    I have this app installed and it is great…apart from 1 thing. If you have set video displays to external on your laptop…and you take away your laptop without remembering to change the video setting to show both external and internal, then when you log on you end up with a blank screen and no way (that I have found yet) of getting your screen to display.

  2. Dan Jones says:

    Installing this screwed up my sudoers file.
    I kept getting these awful errors, and couldn’t use sudo. I had to reboot into recovery mode to fix it.

    It had appended a line that starts with %jupiter ALL=NOPASSWD: …
    But instead of creating a new line at the end of the file, it put it at the end of the last line.

    It should have checked to make sure that it was on a new line before appending to the file. I was seriously confused about what was going on for a while. MAJOR bug!

  3. Jose Ramon B. says:

    I installed Jupiter in my notebook and netbook. It was OK with the notebook Dell XPS. However, my netbook Asus eeePC 1201T became veeeeery slow (e.g., more than 5 minutes to finish the boot AFTER typing the login password — and it was really slow in all the programs I worked, like browsers and LibreOffice). I tried to uninstall the package jupiter-support-eee but the problem remained. So, I uninstalled jupiter and everything became OK again.

  4. 4ensicPenguin2 says:

    nice program.

    it solved my problems on an ASUS X54C-BBK3.

  5. sahil says:

    Thank you very much problem resolved 100% on my AMD PhenomII 965

  6. KeyXMakerX says:

    Will not work with ubuntu 13.04?

  7. ramin says:

    hey guy’s im using ubunto 13.04
    and when i try to install this app
    i got this eeror
    can u plz help me fix it?
    error:
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    E: Unable to locate package jupiter

  8. codename47 says:

    Hi, u can download the deb package from here:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/jupiter/files/jupiter_0.0.50.2_all.deb/download

    then, via root user, type in terminal:
    dpkg -i jupiter_0.0.50.2_all.deb

    and you are done.

    However, i still havent figured out for it to start automatically on startup.

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