{"id":179690,"date":"2025-06-13T00:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T00:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179690\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T00:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T00:11:08","slug":"ubuntu-24-04-lts-adds-power-warnings-for-eu-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179690\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Adds Power Warnings for EU Compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS? You will soon see a short notice when tweaking power management features, as the distro moves to comply with recent EU \u2018ecodesign\u2019 regulations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The changes are part of an update to the GNOME Control Center package<\/a> on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS\u2014which you may know better by its user-facing label of Settings. It adds an info bar to the Power panel when turning auto-suspend off that reads: <\/p>\n

\u201cDisabling automatic suspend will result in higher power consumption. It is recommended to keep automatic suspend enabled\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is the exact same text shown to users of Ubuntu 25.04<\/a> with GNOME 48<\/a>, which was the first version of the desktop environment to introduce the disclaimers. <\/p>\n

Ubuntu has back-ported the changes as a result of EU directive\u00a02023\/826<\/a>, which states:\u00a0\u201c\u2026users shall be warned about the increased energy consumption of the action [\u2026] on the displays integrated in or connected to the equipment.\u201c<\/p>\n

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If you never disable automatic suspend you won\u2019t ever see these warnings<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These \u201cecodesign requirements\u201d loop in all kinds of \u2018household and office electrical and electronic equipment\u2019, including laptops.<\/p>\n

OEMs sell laptops with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS preinstalled which is the warnings are being added (and why the patches were tracked as a bug in Canonical\u2019s OEM Priority Project<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The patches themselves are not intrusive. If you never disable automatic suspend (or visit the Power panel) you won\u2019t ever see a warning. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re simply there to reminder users that turning off energy-saving features will use more energy (like, duh).<\/p>\n

Although back-ported from Ubuntu 25.04 with GNOME 48, Ubuntu\u2019s developers needed to tweak the warnings to work with GNOME 46\u2019s single-page Power panel (GNOME 48 splits its Power settings across two pages).<\/p>\n

Translation updates will follow, so if you run Ubuntu 24.04 in a non-English language you may see the energy disclaimer in English for a short while.<\/p>\n

Why is this warning needed?<\/p>\n

\u2018Not letting your laptop suspend will require more energy\u2019 might sound like common sense, but common sense is a commodity in short supply these days .<\/p>\n

But on a serious note, users may inadvertently auto-suspend unaware that the the amount of energy their device will use will go up. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a heads-up with merit: for users: save money by lowering energy usage; and for the EU, help reduce the CO2 emissions to meet its environmental goals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS? You will soon see a short notice when tweaking power management features, as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[73922,2000,299,5187,73923],"class_list":{"0":"post-179690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-bug-fixes","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-ubuntu-24-04-lts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114673161584077481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}