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 ===== About ===== ===== About =====
-The CpuFreq Plugin shows in the Xfce Panel the following, chooseable informations: +Originally written by Thomas Schreck, this panel plugin shows information about the CPU governor and frequencies supported and used by your system. At the moment, changing any of these settings is not supported by this plugin but might be implemented in future releases.
- +
-  * current CPU frequency +
-  * current used governor +
- +
-In a seperate dialog it provides you following informations of all available informations: +
-  +
-  * all available CPU frequencies +
-  * all available governors +
-  * used driver for the cpu+
  
 ===== Usage ===== ===== Usage =====
  
-Using the plugin is quite simple. You select the cpu which you want to monitor in the Xfce Panel. Next thing you could change is the timeout interval how often the informations have to be updated. A good value is 1,0 which means 100 ms.+From the configuration dialog, which is available by right-clicking on the panel widget, select the CPU which you want to monitor in the panel. Instead of showing values for a single CPU, you can alternatively choose minimum, average or maximum, which might make more sense on a multi-core system. If your system is using the Intel 
 +pstate driver, the current maximum will be chosen by default, as this is what other monitoring applications like i7z show as the current real performance.
  
-You can also specify which informations should be displayed in the panel.+The remaining options on the configuration dialog let you customize the panel widget layout and what data is shown on the panel. 
 + 
 +The overview window can be accessed by left-clicking on the panel plugin widget, or from the context menu, similar to the configuration dialog. It shows detailed information for every CPU (core).
  
 ===== Screenshots ===== ===== Screenshots =====
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 {{ projects:panel-plugins:xfce4-cpufreq-plugin02.png |CpuFreq Preference dialog.}} {{ projects:panel-plugins:xfce4-cpufreq-plugin02.png |CpuFreq Preference dialog.}}
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 +
 +===== Known Problems =====
 +
 +==== Help! I cannot change CPU frequency nor governor in the CPU information dialog ====
 +This is not a bug, though it might look like one because of the widgets used that pretentiously suggest the user could change something. Changing CPU frequency or the governor is not implemented and probably will never be, as it is supposed to be handled by the kernel or power manager. The only function this plugin nowadays performs is showing CPU frequency information. The CPU info dialog is a remnant of the past when it was still possible to change these settings (or at least when it was planned to implement this). It will be redesigned to use proper widgets in a future version. More information about this can be read in [[https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3428|bug #3428]].
  
 ===== Recent Releases ===== ===== Recent Releases =====
 +==== 1.1.2 (2015-06-23) ====
 +  * Fix IT_PROG_INTLTOOL warning
 +  * Translation updates: Basque, Bulgarian, Greek, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
 +
 +==== 1.1.1 (2014-12-23) ====
 +  * Fix panel resizing caused by freq format function (bug #10385)
 +  * Various other widget layout fixes and simplifications
 +  * Fix missing return type of cpufreq_show_about (bug #10343)
 +  * Fix typo in panel-plugin/Makefile.am (bug #10332)
 +  * Various other fixes to the build system
 +  * Many translation updates
 +
 +==== 1.1.0 (2013-09-03) ====
 +  * Support the Intel performance state driver
 +  * Improve config dialog and make it use shortcut keys
 +  * Add a proper "About" dialog
 +  * Add min, avg and max frequencies in cpu selection
 +  * Add support for selecting a custom font
 +  * Support showing icon only (bug #7474)
 +  * Improve overview window size and layout
 +  * Remove code for showing the frame
 +  * Rewrite layout code using >=xfce4-panel-4.9 features
 +  * Remove code for deprecated APIs and <xfce4-panel-4.9
 +  * Build plugin as a module
 +  * Fix showing frequency of wrong CPU core (bug #7179)
 +  * Fix reading min frequency from cpufreq sysfs
 +  * Support panel 4.9 features (deskbar mode) (bug #8396)
 +  * Port plugin to libxfce4ui (bug #8051)
 +  * Code clean up and refactoring
 +  * Updates and fixes for build system files
 +
 ==== 1.0.0 (2011-01-23) ==== ==== 1.0.0 (2011-01-23) ====
   * Fix support for xfce 4.8, fixing bug #6448   * Fix support for xfce 4.8, fixing bug #6448
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 ===== Recent Changes ===== ===== Recent Changes =====
 {{rss>http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/atom/ 5 date}} {{rss>http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/atom/ 5 date}}
-===== Reporting Bugs ===== 
-Bugs should be reported to the [[http://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xfce4-cpufreq-plugin|Xfce bug tracking system]]. 
  
 +  * [[http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/log/|View full log]]
 +
 +===== Reporting Bugs =====
  
 +Bugs should be reported to the [[http://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xfce4-cpufreq-plugin|Xfce bug tracking system]]. Before reporting bugs, please look if your issue has not been reported before, has already been solved or is on the [[http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/tree/TODO|TODO list]]. Also make sure you've read the [[http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpufreq-plugin/tree/README|README]]. Always make sure you're using the current version.
 ==== Open Bugs ==== ==== Open Bugs ====
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