Save battery with motion throttling

LumaSpace's motion scenes look great, but a 60fps animation running behind your work is the fastest way to drain a laptop. Here's how the auto-pause rules work, and the three settings worth changing.

How auto-pause works

LumaSpace listens to four signals from macOS and pauses motion the moment any one of them is true:

• A window is fully covering the wallpaper.
• The display is set to sleep, or has dimmed below 20% brightness.
• A full-screen app has taken over.
• "Low power mode" is on, or the battery is below 20%.

When motion pauses, the last frame stays on screen as a still image. Most people never notice. Motion resumes from where it left off when the signal clears.

The three settings worth changing

Open LumaSpace → Settings → Performance.

1. Frame-rate ceiling

By default LumaSpace caps at 30fps on battery, 60fps on AC. Drop both to 24fps if you don't notice the difference. On a MacBook Air M2 we saw 38 extra minutes of battery from this alone.

2. Render resolution

Set to "Match window-visible area" to render only the visible pixels instead of full native resolution.

3. The keystroke

Quick manual override: ⌃ ⌥ P to pause/resume. Rebind in Settings → Shortcuts.