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
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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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| TuneD | Daemon for monitoring and adaptive tuning of system devices |
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| system76-power | Utility for managing graphics and power profiles |
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| thermald | Thermal daemon for Intel Architecture |
| powerstat | Measures the power consumption of a laptop |
| LACT | Linux GPU Control Application |
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