Epic: Battery Saver Mode

[zadjii-msft]

written by @carlos-zamora

It'd be cool if Windows Terminal could be smart about battery consumption when in Low Power Mode or running on a battery (as opposed to a desktop being plugged in). Here's some ideas on what behavior could change:

• Acrylic ideas:
  • Replace acrylic with mica
  • Disable acrylic / fall back to HostBackdropAcrylic when in low power mode
  • See also #7158 - disable that fix when in battery saver mode
  • also #11092
• Renderer: reduce refresh rate
• [ ] #5318 Cursor: blink less often or don't blink at all

Battery saving optimizations we should just do regardless

• [ ] #12706
• [ ] #1989

Put your ideas below!

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

Replace acrylic with mycah

Does this refer to Mica material?

[DHowett]

Replace acrylic with mycah

Does this refer to Mica material?

Ha! Yup.

[zadjii]

Also see #5318, which we should probably just do always

[miniksa]

GetSystemPowerStatus and Registering For Power Events will help us here.