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cpupower-governors

Example screenshot of the extension

Enables the ability to swap between kernel governors for the CPU useful for laptops.

  • Balanced: Mode controlled by the schedutil governor. Frequency changes dynamically and in a smart way.
  • Performance: Run the CPU at the maximum frequency.
  • Powersave: Run the CPU at the minimum frequency.

Requirements

  • cpupower.
  • pkexec, which is from polkit.

Tested on Gnome 3.38.1

Persistance

If you would like to define a governor on boot, check cpupower manual. Normally, it consists of two steps:

  1. Edit /etc/default/cpupower accordingly.
  2. Enable the service systemctl enable cpupower.service.