osdcpufreq - OSD CPU frequency monitor

osdcpufreq displays an OSD-like window (similar effect as a television's on-screen volume control) with information about the CPU current status, including frequency, driver, governor... It is very useful for laptops equipped with mobile technology processors (like the Intel Centrino), which can change the speed on the fly.

screenshots

The best way to understand how the program works is looking some screenshots. Click on a screenshot for a full-size view of the desktop.

features

*****Highly customizable interface. You can easily change the colour, the bar length, the font, the font size, the position, the shadow, etc. of the OSD window.
*****Highly customizable behaviour. You can set the number of seconds the OSD window is on the screen, or if you want it to stay always on top.
*****Desktop environment independent. It works with any desktop environment or window manager, like KDE, GNOME, XFCE, WindowMaker, IceWm, etc.
*****Easily configurable. Every setting can be easily changed editing the well commented $HOME/.osdcpufreq.conf file.

usage

[[ Firstly, copy the /etc/osdcpufreq.conf file to your home directory (cp /etc/osdcpufreq.conf $HOME/.osdcpufreq.conf) and edit it to change the default settings. ]]

It is really easy: open an X Terminal, like xterm or konsole, and execute osdcpufreq command ;-)

The program's purpose is to quickly display the current status of the CPU, that's why I recommend you to associate a keyboard shortcut for the osdcpufreq command, for example: Ctrl+Shift+C. The configuration process depends on the desktop manager you were running:

-->KDE: you can configure it inside Control Center--> Regional & Accessibility--> KHotKeys. Select New Action and type osdcpufreq into the Action name field, then go to Actions, select New--> Command/URL and type osdcpufreq. Finally go to Triggers, select New--> Shortcut Trigger and capture your keyboard shortcut.

-->WindowMaker: you can attach osdcpufreq to a hotkey using WPrefs. To do this, osdcpufreq must be a command in your right-click menu or submenu. Go to WPrefs--> Applications Menu Definition, drag Run Program item to the menu, select it and type osdcpufreq into Program to Run field, then capture your keyboard shortcut. Finally reset WindowMaker: WindowMaker->Exit->Restart.

-->XFCE: Settings--> Window Manager Settings--> Keyboard--> Add, write any name, then, inside Command shortcuts, double click on none none, type osdcpufreq, and now capture your shortcut.

requirements

*A processor that supports frequency scaling, like Intel Pentium M (Centrino), mobile AMD K6-2+, mobile AMD K6-3+, mobile AMD K7, AMD64 with Cool'n'Quiet, etc.

*Linux Kernel version 2.6 with CPU Frequency scaling (CPU_FREQ) and CPU frequency translation statistics (CPU_FREQ_STAT) support. Of course, your processor's CPUFreq driver must be enabled, either inside the kernel or loaded as a module.

*The X Window System. The X server (Xorg/XFree86) must be running when executing osdcpufreq.

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license

osdcpufreq is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation (GPL-2).

OSD CPU frequency monitor