Bumblebee Daemon

Bumblebee daemon is a rewrite of the original Bumblebee service, providing an elegant and stable means of managing Optimus hybrid graphics chipsets. A primary goal of this project is to not only enable use of the discrete GPU for rendering, but also to enable smart power management of the dGPU when it's not in use.

Build Requirements

autotools (2.68+ recommended)
libx11 and development headers
bbswitch (optional)

Building

autoreconf -fi
./configure
make

Usage

sudo ./bumblebeed --daemon
./optirun -- <application>

For more information, try --help on either of the two binaries.

Installing System-wide and Packaging

You can build the binaries and set the system wide paths at configure time

autoreconf -fi
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make

After building the binaries they can be installed using make:

sudo make install

For packagers you need to add DESTDIR=$pkgdir

make install DESTDIR=$pkgdir