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Distribution: Arch Linux 2007.05 "Duke" (Kernel 2.6.21)
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CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor for XFCE
Hey all - I'm currently using XFCE4.4 Beta and I'm merely curious if there exists any plugins to keep a watch on Frequency Scaling. I have the Temp plugin installed, but I can't seem to find any to do the same for scaling. I know that Gnome has the CPUFreq applet, but again - can't find a counterpart for XFCE. Thanks!
Distribution: Xubuntu 9.10, Gentoo 2.6.27 (AMD64), Darwin 9.0.0 (arm)
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I'm not sure if there is a panel plugin for this but I use adesklets and the 'doityourself' desklet. which lets you make your own desklet from the output of a script that you write. Mine is a status display with:
you can set the font and color, use images and use a translucent background. if you are interested I can send you my desklet (though some of it may require modification as I wrote it specifically for my ibook.)
It gleans the cpu frequency from:
cpufreq-info
with some grep-ing and sed-ing.
Last edited by johnson_steve; 10-06-2006 at 11:29 AM.
Distribution: Arch Linux 2007.05 "Duke" (Kernel 2.6.21)
Posts: 447
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Well, I appreciate the offer, but I found a much simpler solution (for me at least)
I just discovered that there is an "xfapplet" plugin for xfce4, which lets me use gnome applets as plugins. I merely installed this and the cpufreq applet from gnome and added all of that to the panel. Admittedly this probably takes up more HD space, but I know how to use all of these and adesklets and bash scripting are a bit above me at the moment (although I'm sure I could read your scripts, and figure out adesklets...)
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