CPU frequency setting plugin - what's it called?

[Chris Green]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:45:41PM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> On 05/02/2012 12:25 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:44:40AM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 04:36:54PM -0700, Willie Matthews wrote:
> >>>> On 05/01/12 14:58, Chris Green wrote:
> >>>>> A while ago I installed a panel plugin which showed the CPU frequency
> >>>>> and allowed setting the frequency, for example one could lock the CPU at
> >>>>> maximum speed if one wanted.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can someone tell me what the pluging is called because I can't find it
> >>>>> now.
> >>>>>
> >>>> You can also make launchers with the bash command to set the cpu governor.
> >>>>
> >>> That's certainly a way of doing it if there's nothing else available.
> >>
> >> I think you're looking for
> >> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
> >>
> > Unless I'm confused (quite likely) that doesn't allow *setting* the CPU
> > frequency or governor.
> > 
> Excuse me for butting in. I guess that you might be doing what I
> mistakenly did for a while with that plugin. I expected to control the
> CPU by using the Properties dialog. Then, one day, I accidentally
> LEFT-clicked on the plugin. Heh.
> 
No, I'm left (button 1) clicking on the panel, I get the "CPU
Information" display with "Scaling driver:", "Available Frequencies:"
and "Available Governors:" for each processor.  However clicking on
either "Available Frequencies:" or "Available Governors:" and selecting
a different value from the pull-down list doesn't actually change
anything.

-- 
Chris Green