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For devices where the kernel directly supports controlling the charging limits, you may be able to do that with the controls in
/sys/class/power_supply/{probably BAT0}/
. Specifically you should be looking for thecharge_start_threshold
andcharge_stop_threshold
files, but I remember as if sometimes there would be some variance in the names.If you have kernel support, you should be able to use TLP to make better use of this functionality, and in theory KDE's xbattery and brightness" widget should also show controls related to it, but I couldn't see it in action myself.
For devices that use the EC (Embedded Controller) of chromebooks (I think such are the Framework laptops too) you can use the
ectool
command utility made for those. Framework makes available a precompiled version, that should work for chromebooks too when running Linux.Possibly it still depends on your specific device whether it will work, but the
ectool chargecontrol idle
command should make it stop using the battery while it is plugged in to a sufficiently powerful charger, andectool chargecontrol normal
should be able to restore it.I recommend checking out the other commands of both the ectool command and the chargecontrol subcommand if you see anything interesting (though do be cautios!), for instance with chargecontrol you can also set an interval of a charging boundaries, or read the current state.
It's worth to note though that I remember reading somewhere (maybe in the chrome ec docs?) that this does not work with all chargers, but it should be ok with the original one you got with the device.