I dunno that this makes it any easier...

I tried splitting up the sources to speed
up some compiling... but it didn't help.
I dunno that it's more readable this way.

I'm checkpointing this just in case.

power_profile.cc

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#include "power_profile.h"
+
+#include <thread>
+#include <map>
+
+#include "power_console.h"
+
+
+const std::map< std::string, Fl_Round_Button ** > powerMode=
+{
+	{ "power-saver", &saver },
+	{ "balanced", &balance },
+	{ "performance", &perfButton },
+};
+
+
+// Since this requires launching bg processes, we only do it at startup and then every 30s.
+void
+profileUpdate( void * )
+{
+	FILE *prof= popen( "powerprofilesctl get", "r" );
+	char buffer[ 1024 ]= "";
+	fscanf( prof, "%s", buffer );
+	pclose( prof );
+
+	( *powerMode.at( buffer ) )->setonly();
+
+	Fl::repeat_timeout( 30, profileUpdate, nullptr );
+}
+
+
+void
+setPowerMode( const std::string &mode )
+{
+	( *powerMode.at( mode ) )->setonly();
+	std::thread bg{ [mode]{ system( ( "powerprofilesctl set " + mode ).c_str() ); } };
+	bg.detach();
+}