Flatsonar

CPU frequency settings

by Evangelos Rigas

Adjust the frequency of the CPU

Broad permissions Unverified publisher GPL-3.0-or-later v1.0.1
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About

A graphical utility for changing the CPU frequencies and governor. This utility can change the operating frequency of the CPU for each core separately. The program can detect offline cores and only present the available ones. Furthermore, if a core doesn't support frequency scaling is not shown. There is also an option to apply the same settings to all cores simultaneously. To apply the settings, the user must be local and active, as well as in group sudo. Local and active users not in this group must authenticate themselves as admin in order to apply the settings.

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • dconf: all GNOME settings
    --talk-name=ca.desrt.dconf
  • talks to system service org.rnd2.cpupower_gui.helper
    --system-talk-name=org.rnd2.cpupower_gui.helper
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • access to xdg-run/dconf
    --filesystem=xdg-run/dconf
  • access to ~/.config/dconf
    --filesystem=~/.config/dconf:ro
  • owns bus name org.rnd2.cpupower_gui.helper
    --system-own-name=org.rnd2.cpupower_gui.helper
  • sets environment variable DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR
    --env=DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR=.config/dconf

Who publishes this

Nobody has confirmed that the publisher controls this app id. Flatsonar warns before installing.

  • org.rnd2.CpupowerGui claims the domain rnd2.org; only its owner can prove that
    publisher:namespace
  • git source tracks a moving branch: what gets built can change without the manifest changing
    source:unpinned

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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