silent-mouse.sh

silent-mouse.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e

# See https://wrgms.com/disable-mouse-battery-low-spam-notification/
# for instructions on how to use it
#
# TL;DR: run with "--keyboard" if you want to patch upower to ignore both
# mice and keyboard notifications (by default it ignores only mice)

# Check distro and upower version in use, and install required libraries
#
echo
echo "---------------------------------------------------------------------------"
upower --version
echo "---------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo

UPOWER_ORIG_VER=`upower --version`
OS=`awk -F= '/^ID=/{print $2}' /etc/os-release`
OS_VER=`awk -F= '/^VERSION_ID=/{print $2}' /etc/os-release | cut -d "\"" -f 2`
OS_VER_MAJOR=`echo ${OS_VER} | awk -F. '{print $1}'`

PATCH_LEGACY_URL="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/guiambros/f2bf07f1cc085f8f0b0a9e04c0a767b4/raw/73efac967c8fc9539802e7aa8eeba5492f8ae3b1/up-device-legacy.patch"
PATCH_CURRENT_URL="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/guiambros/f2bf07f1cc085f8f0b0a9e04c0a767b4/raw/73efac967c8fc9539802e7aa8eeba5492f8ae3b1/up-device-current-0.99.12p.patch"
PATCH_NAME="up-device.patch"
PATCH_URL=${PATCH_CURRENT_URL}

if [ "$OS" == "manjaro" ]
then
    echo "-- Manjaro detected; installing required libraries"
    sudo pacman -S base-devel gtk-doc gobject-introspection git
    PATH_UPOWERD="/usr/lib"
    PATH_UPOWER="/usr/bin"

elif [ "$OS" == "ubuntu" ]
then
    echo "-- Ubuntu detected; installing required libraries"
    sudo apt install -y git gtk-doc-tools gobject-introspection libgudev-1.0-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev autoconf libtool autopoint
    PATH_UPOWER="/usr/bin"

    if [ "${OS_VER}" == "20.10" ]
    then
        echo "--- Ubuntu version 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) detected"
        PATH_UPOWERD="/usr/libexec"
        UPOWER_BRANCH="UPOWER_0_99_11"
        PATCH_URL=${PATCH_LEGACY_URL}

    elif [ ${OS_VER_MAJOR} -ge 21 ]
    then
        echo "--- Ubuntu version 21 or above detected"
        PATH_UPOWERD="/usr/libexec"
        UPOWER_BRANCH="UPOWER_0_99_11"
        PATCH_URL=${PATCH_LEGACY_URL}

    elif [ ${OS_VER_MAJOR} -le 20 ]
    then
        echo "--- Ubuntu version 20.04 or lower detected"
        PATH_UPOWERD="/usr/lib/upower"
        UPOWER_BRANCH="UPOWER_0_99_11"
        PATCH_URL=${PATCH_LEGACY_URL}
    fi
else
    echo "-- Unknown system; this script was only tested on ubuntu and manjaro."
    exit 1
fi
echo "---------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo


# Download upowerd source and selects the proper branch
#
cd ~
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower

if [ -z ${UPOWER_BRANCH} ]
then
    echo "-- Using latest master branch (0.99.12 or above)"
    cd upower/src
else
    echo "-- Using branch ${UPOWER_BRANCH} (latest compatible with your distro)"
    cd upower
    git fetch --all --tags
    git checkout tags/${UPOWER_BRANCH} -b ${UPOWER_BRANCH}
    cd src
fi


# Download and patch upowerd
#
wget ${PATCH_URL} -O ${PATCH_NAME}
if [ "$1" == "-keyboard" ] || [ "$1" == "--keyboard" ]; then
        SILENCE_KEYBOARD="+     if ((type == UP_DEVICE_KIND_MOUSE || type == UP_DEVICE_KIND_KEYBOARD) && state == UP_DEVICE_STATE_DISCHARGING) {"
        sed -i "/UP_DEVICE_KIND_MOUSE/c${SILENCE_KEYBOARD}" ${PATCH_NAME}
fi
patch -F 1 < ${PATCH_NAME}


# Compile upowerd
#
cd ..
./autogen.sh
./configure
make


# Install upowerd
#
CUR_DATETIME=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S`

pushd .
cd src/.libs
strip upowerd
sudo chown root.root upowerd
sudo mv upowerd ${PATH_UPOWERD}/upowerd-silent
cd ${PATH_UPOWERD}
sudo mv upowerd upowerd-original-${CUR_DATETIME}
sudo ln -s upowerd-silent upowerd
popd


# Install upower
#
pushd .
cd tools/.libs
strip upower
sudo chown root.root upower
sudo mv upower ${PATH_UPOWER}/upower-silent
cd ${PATH_UPOWER}
sudo mv upower upower-original-${CUR_DATETIME}
sudo ln -s upower-silent upower
popd


# Restart upowerd
#
sudo systemctl restart upower


# Compare versions before/after (they will likely be different, but it depends on what your distro packages by default)
#
echo
echo "---------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "upower version BEFORE the update:"
echo "${UPOWER_ORIG_VER}"
echo "-------------------------------------"
echo "upower version AFTER the update:"
upower --version

Huh. I was running silent-mouse.sh in an emacs shell buffer.
I just re-ran it from an xterm window and it completed, but with non-zero exit

Making all in rules
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/rob/upower/rules'
GEN .gitignore
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/rob/upower/rules'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/rob/upower'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/rob/upower'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/rob/upower'
++ date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S

• CUR_DATETIME=2021-09-13-124821
• pushd .
  ~/upower ~/upower
• cd src/.libs
• strip upowerdecho installin upower
  strip: 'upowerdecho': No such file
  strip: 'installin': No such file
  strip: 'upower': No such file
  gitanmax:silentMouse$ echo $?
  1

The compilation went well, aside from some deprecation warnings wrt g_get__current_time, _GTimeVal

But I haven't undone my edits (set -x, --debug etc) so I'll clean up and run again

Clean download, all good. A little surprised by the final report.

upower version BEFORE the update:
UPower client version 0.99.11
UPower daemon version 0.99.11

upower version AFTER the update:
UPower client version 0.99.11
UPower daemon version 0.99.11

But I don't see the Low Power banner! Thanks so much.

Awesome, glad it worked well. And yes, 0.99.11 is the current version on ubuntu, so having the same version before/after is the expected result.

@guiambros Thank you so much for silencing the insessant spam from my mouse. Coupled with a temporary bug that prevents me from redirecting audio app by app in pipewire this was torture !

I opened a bug against gnome-settings-daemon. In my case at least, upower is flagging this as though it should be ignored. So I opened an issue to say gnome settings daemon shouldn't notify in that case.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/issues/664

I tested this script in Pop!_OS 21.10 and it works well, for those who were wondering. I changed ubuntu in line 35 to pop to make it work.

@guiambros

Thanks for the script! I ran with:

wget -O - https://gist.githubusercontent.com/guiambros/166039459a8579638b57f7d135505ab1/raw/733b8dd3ac3280bb76f48ba3dc04655df6d69025/silent-mouse.sh | bash

It prints a bunch of commands, detects correctly that I'm on Ubuntu 18, but then it seems to run into a upower error. I've pasted the last few lines of the command line.

make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/seita/upower/po'
test ! -f ./upower.pot || \
  test -z "fr.gmo it.gmo sv.gmo pl.gmo" || make fr.gmo it.gmo sv.gmo pl.gmo
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/seita/upower/po'
rm -f fr.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics --verbose -o fr.gmo fr.po
fr.po:7: warning: header field 'Language' missing in header
fr.po: 26 translated messages.
rm -f it.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics --verbose -o it.gmo it.po
it.po:8: warning: header field 'Language' missing in header
it.po: 19 translated messages.
rm -f sv.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics --verbose -o sv.gmo sv.po
sv.po:7: warning: header field 'Language' missing in header
sv.po: 19 translated messages.
rm -f pl.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics --verbose -o pl.gmo pl.po
pl.po:5: warning: header field 'Language' missing in header
pl.po: 26 translated messages.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/seita/upower/po'
touch stamp-po
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/seita/upower/po'
Making all in rules
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/seita/upower/rules'
  GEN      .gitignore
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/seita/upower/rules'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/seita/upower'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/seita/upower'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/seita/upower'
~/upower ~/upower
~/upower
~/upower ~/upower
~/upower

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
upower version BEFORE the update:
UPower client version 0.99.7
UPower daemon version 0.99.7
-------------------------------------
upower version AFTER the update:
upower: symbol lookup error: upower: undefined symbol: up_client_get_devices2
seita@starship:~ $ 

Is this error critical?

Thanks for your work on this.

I have ubuntu 20.04 and ran the script but got stuck in some dependencies, specifically:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gobject-introspection : Depends: libgirepository-1.0-1 (= 1.64.0-2) but 1.64.1-1~ubuntu20.04.1 is to be installed

I already had gobject-introspection installed, version 1.64.1-1~ubuntu20.04.1. (despite the above message) so

I downgraded the libgirepository-1.0-1 package from 1.64.1-1~ubuntu20.04.1 to v 1.64.0-2; ran the script again and it worked.

@skorasaurus -- thanks for sharing your experience!

This thread is quite old at this point. I'm also using 20.04, and haven't had to mess with upowerd for a while. Curious if you were still experiencing it.

It seems the frequent notifications were fixed upstream in gnome-settings-daemon. I haven't tracked the exact changes in gsd, but at least I haven't seen it nearly as frequently as before.

The folks from upower argue the issue should be fixed upstream (in this case gnome-settings-daemon).

@guiambros I still experience this issue, with marathon mouse/performance plus m705 on Ubuntu 23.10 with gnome 45.0, I also encountered this issue on Ubuntu 23.04 with gnome 44.

At this point, I was seeing this (or similar, I think at the beginning it was yellow, not orange) message for three months:

It appears on the login screen and after logging in despite "Do Not Disturb" turned on. It stays on the screen till I click on it.