TCC Bridge

My laptop uses the Tuxedo Control Center to manage power profiles, but the only way to switch between them is through a full desktop GUI. That annoyed me enough to write TCC Bridge: a small Bash script that does the same thing from the command line.

The script talks to the tccd daemon over D-Bus using gdbus, and parses the JSON it returns with jq. You can list all profiles, switch to a specific one by ID, or just cycle to the next one with a single command.

It also fires a desktop notification through notify-send whenever the profile switches, which makes it perfect to bind to a keyboard shortcut. One keypress and my laptop is in performance mode, no window, no mouse.

During this project I learned how D-Bus works and how to introspect services on it, something I knew existed but had never actually used before. Sometimes the right answer really is just a shell script.

Source Code

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Take a closer look at the source code here: GitHub