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CPU Frequency is a GNOME Shell extension that adds an applet to the main panel, which shows current CPU(s) frequency.

Everybody loves screenshots, right?

As I couldn't find any real documentation for writing gnome-shell extensions, I based my code on better or worse snippets and tutorials found on internet. Some of the sources are mentioned below:

• gnome-shell-extensions
• Musings of an OS plumber
• Linux Mint Shell Extensions for Gnome 3 (MGSE)

The extension scans /sys/devices/system/cpu[0-9]+/cpufreq directories to find information about available and current CPU frequencies and presents it graphically.

The [email protected] directory should be copied to /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions or ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/:

# cp cpufreq\@zdyb.tk /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions

or:

$ cp cpufreq\@zdyb.tk ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

Please do not forget to enable the newly installed extension using for example gnome-tweak-tool.

If you don't want icons to be desaturated, you can edit [email protected]/extension.js file and change DESATURATE to false:

const DESATURATE = false;

The cpu icons are borrowed from GNOME 2.x applet named cpufreq. The icons are included in GNOME repository, so I assume the original author has nothing against using them in this project. If it's not true, please someone let me know.

Copyright 2011 Aleksander Zdyb

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.