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#54 Set NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching to Yes to prevent macOS GPU access

Milestone: v5.0.0

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: nobody

Labels: OSX (1)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2019-08-12

Created: 2019-02-20

Creator: Brian Krisler

Private: No

If NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching is not set to YES, DavMail will become a significant user of battery power.

This can be observed by launching Activity Monitor and seeing Requires High Perf. GPU set to Yes for DavMail. Adding the above to Info.pist (attached) will fix this issue.

References:
- http://supermegaultragroovy.com/2016/12/10/auto-graphics-switching/
- https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1734/_index.html

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Mickael Guessant - 2019-02-20

status: open --> open-fixed
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Mickael Guessant - 2019-02-20

I will have to trust you on this, patch merged in trunk

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Mickael Guessant - 2019-08-06

Released in 5.3.0

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Mickael Guessant - 2019-08-12

status: open-fixed --> closed-fixed
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