Prime Render Switch and Status
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Plasma 5 Monitoring driver gpu intel nvidia prime
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This is a simple widget that shows the status of your video graphics card using the "prime-select" command and lets you switch between your Nvidia card and your intel video card. Also, it give you the option to see what version of Nvidia drivers you have and a quick short-cut to open nvidia-settings.
For this widget work like a charm, you need to have installed "zenity" and "libnotify-tools" (This is required if you want to be able to switch video cards) and you need to have the Nvidia drivers installed and the switch "prime-select nvidia" and "prime-select intel" working properly.
You can customize the names and models of the video cards in settings.
This widget works on dark and light themes.
Version 0.2 1 month ago
Version 0.2 is now much simpler, you can change the size of the icon in the taskbar and it doesn't need the zenity dependency.
Version 0.2 1 month ago
Version 0.2 is now much simpler, you can change the size of the icon in the taskbar and it doesn't need the zenity dependency.
Very good applet. I've changed kdesu for pkexec. and Intel for ondemand in my case. What do you think about to use the applet in the system tray? I think it's a good option. Anyway, thank you for your work!
Good work!
romenskiy2012
Sep 25 2020
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Prime Render Switch and Status is part of KDE Themes and Extensions, which is supported by the following people:
franciscot
1 month ago
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jfespinal
1 month ago
The true is that I am very new making applets for kde, and I don’t know how to put it on the system tray. I was having trouble with the logout command that I used and I don’t know a command that make a kde logout for sure every time that the user runs it, but with the feedback of the users I can make better updates.
I know that I made just intel and nvidia cards I made this because this is my configuration but other users may have ati cards, the command will be prime-select ati? I don’t know, maybe you could help to make better updates.
I am glad that this applet helps so many users because I started this for my self and I saw that I could share it here!
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franciscot
1 month ago
You can use this command to start the logout: qdbus org.kde.ksmserver / KSMServer logout 1 3 3
Or logout without confirmation: qdbus org.kde.ksmserver / KSMServer logout 0 3 3 (careful!)
You can get the profiles with the 'prime-select query' command. In my case they are "intel" "ondemand" (hybrid) and "nvidia"
Sorry not to be of more help, I am an amateur programmer.
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franciscot
1 month ago
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jfespinal
26 days ago
this is what I get with prime-select:
nvidia: use the NVIDIA proprietary driver
intel: use the Intel card with the "modesetting" driver
PRIME Render Offload possible with >= 435.xx NVIDIA driver with prime-select service DISABLED
intel2: use the Intel card with the "intel" Open Source driver (xf86-video-intel)
PRIME Render Offload possible with >= 435.xx NVIDIA driver with prime-select service DISABLED
unset: disable effects of this script and let Xorg decide what driver to use
get-current: display driver currently configured
log-view: view logfile
log-clean: clean logfile
I was trying with the pkexec, there is not information how to put a plasmoid on the system tray and the commands you wrote for logout are not working for me.
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franciscot
26 days ago
And I think the keyboard indicator is a good example too. In my system is in /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.keyboardindicator/
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driglu4it
5 months ago
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jfespinal
5 months ago
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