CPU frequency setting plugin - what's it called?

[Gilbert Sullivan]

On 05/02/2012 01:03 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
> 
Okay, I've been dumb (again). I saw the controls and just ASS-umed that
they actually did something!

Doh!

I'll eat a donut now, since it's one of the few things I know how to do.

;-)