asusctl – control aspects of ASUS laptops

asusctl is a control daemon, CLI tools, and a collection of crates for interacting with ASUS ROG laptops.

asusd is a utility for Linux to control many aspects of various ASUS laptops but can also be used with non-ASUS laptops with reduced features.

The main goal of this work is to provide a safe and easy to use abstraction over various laptop features via DBUS, and to provide some helpful defaults and other behaviour such as toggling throttle/profile on AC/battery change.

It includes a graphical user interface, rog-control-center.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • System daemon..
  • GUI app (includes tray and notifications).
  • Setting/modifying built-in LED modes.
  • Per-key LED setting.
  • Fancy LED modes (See examples) (currently being reworked).
  • AniMatrix display on G14 and M16 models that include it.
  • Set battery charge limit (with kernel supporting this).
  • Fan curve control on supported laptops (G14/G15, some TUF like FA507).
  • Toggle bios setting for boot/POST sound.
  • Toggle GPU MUX (g-sync, or called MUX on 2022+ laptops).

Website: gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl
Support:
Developer: Armas Spann, Luke Jones
License: Mozilla Public License 2.0

asusctl is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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