INDICATOR-CPUFREQ(1)
π NAME π
bestie... let me put you onto indicator-cpufreq, aka the CPU frequency scaling indicator β¨ it's literally the little applet that lets you vibe-check your CPU's clock speed and change it on the fly, no reboot, no drama π¦
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
indicator-cpufreq
π DESCRIPTION π
okay so here's the tea β indicator-cpufreq is a program for displaying and changing CPU frequency on the fly. like, you're mid-chaos, your laptop is either screaming or snoozing, and you just... fix it. live. iconic behavior fr fr π
it does the exact same thing the Gnome CPU frequency applet does β the same functionality, no cap β but here's the slay: it doesn't require the Gnome panel and it works under Unity π so if you're on Unity and feeling left out of the CPU-fiddling party, this is your moment. main character energy only π
β¨ OPTIONS β¨
these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-) π
a summary of options is included below, because we're thorough like that:
-d,--debugβ prints the maximum debugging info π₯ (and yes, it implies-vv, so you get the whole entire lore, not just a snippet)-v,--verboseβ setserror_leveloutput to warning, then info, and then debug π¦ so it gets progressively more chatty with you
π AUTHOR π
indicator-cpufreq was written by Artem Popov <artfwo@gmail.com> π«Ά
this manual page was written for the Debian project (and may be used by others) πΈ
and that's the whole page, bestie π this was the INDICATOR-CPUFREQ(1) page from the General Commands Manual, dated July 29, 2011 β yeah, it's an elder but it still ate π mwah, go scale those frequencies responsibly β¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- ubuntu jammy: indicator-cpufreq 0.2.2-0ubuntu3 Β· GPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu noble: indicator-cpufreq 0.2.2-0ubuntu4 Β· GPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu questing: indicator-cpufreq 0.2.2-0ubuntu4
- ubuntu resolute: indicator-cpufreq 0.2.2-0ubuntu5 Β· GPL-3.0-only
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms