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nodefourtytwo / gnome-shell-extension-cpu-freq

Change CPU frequency from gnome shell
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No password prompt or govenor change Fedora 17 #9

Open abc-mikey opened 11 years ago

abc-mikey commented 11 years ago

Hi,

I've tried this with Fedora 17 and with both cpufreq-selector and cpupower installed. It does show the correct CPU info and the available scaling governors but actually trying to change one appears to do nothing. There is no password prompt and it does not change.

As mentioned in my post on CPU extensions, I'm not at all sure that having the menu "icon" show a label that is the CPU frequency is quite the right way to go. It's not particularly in keeping with the Gnome 3 appearance and as currently implemented as the issue of the popup disappearing from under you if the 5 second update kicks in. If I were doing it I would look at having an icon and putting the frequency in the popup menu and look into just updating the label without having to rebuild the popup.

nodefourtytwo commented 11 years ago

About Fedora, I can't really help because I don't have any installed. You have cpupower and cpufreq-selector, so I guess it has something to do with polkit not giving you the authorization to change the cpu governor as a user.

nodefourtytwo commented 11 years ago

And about the second part, I agree with you.Though, I still find it intersting to have a "live" view of the cpu frequency. Maybe an icon with 3 or 4 steps like battey and wifi would be interesting.