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<title>&applet; Manual</title>
<abstract role="description">
<para>&applet; shows the current clock speed of the CPU and provides an
interface to change the clock speed if the CPU supports it.</para>
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<copyright>
<year>2005</year>
<holder>Davyd Madeley</holder>
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<year>2004</year>
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<primary>CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor</primary>
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<sect1 id="cpufreq-applet-introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<figure id="cpufreq-applet-figure">
<title>&applet;</title>
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<para>The <application>&applet;</application> provides a convenient way to monitor the CPU Frequency Scaling for each CPU.
</para>
<para>To add <application>&applet;</application> to a panel, right-click on the panel to open the panel popup menu, then choose
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Add to Panel</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>.</para>
<note><para>
Unfortunately, CPU frequency scaling can currently only be monitored on
Linux machines that have support in the kernel. It can however, support the
several generations of frequency scaling interfaces in the kernel.
</para></note>
<para>When there is no CPU frequency scaling support in the system, the &applet; only displays the current CPU frequency.</para>
<para>When CPU frequency scaling is supported in the system, the &applet; displays the CPU icon with a progress bar. The state of the progress bar represents the current CPU frequency with respect to the maximum frequency.</para>
<para>By default the &applet; displays the current CPU frequency as a value
in Hertz (the standard measure of frequency), but can be configured to
display a percentage instead. For more information on how to configure &applet; see <xref linkend="cpufreq-applet-prefs"/>.</para>
<para>Each instance of &applet; can monitor only one CPU. You must start an
instance of &applet; for each CPU that you want to monitor if you are in a
multiprocessor (SMP) system.</para>
<sect2 id="mate-cpufreq-icons">
<title>Understanding the Icons</title>
<para>
The &applet; has a series of icons that graphically represent the current
scaling level of the processor you are monitoring. They are:
</para>
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<phrase>100% Power</phrase>
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The CPU is running at, or close to, 100% throughput
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The CPU is running at, or close to, 75% throughput</para>
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The CPU is running at, or close to, 50% throughput
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format="PNG"/>
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<phrase>25% Power</phrase>
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<entry><para>
The CPU is running at, or close to, 25% throughput
</para></entry>
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<sect2 id="mate-cpufreq-selector">
<title>Frequency and Governor Selector</title>
<warning><para>The Frequency Selector functionality may not be available
on your MATE Desktop by default. Please consult your system
administrator, vendor documentation, or the documentation that came with
this software.</para></warning>
<para>
To set the CPU frequency, (left-)click on the monitor and a menu
will be shown. This menu will offer you a list of available frequencies
and/or frequency governors for your machine.
</para>
<tip><para>
You can choose whether you want to show available frequencies or
governors in the <guilabel>Preferences</guilabel>.
See <xref linkend="cpufreq-applet-prefs"/> for more information.
</para></tip>
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<title>Preferences</title>
<para>To configure the <application>&applet;</application>, right-click on the applet, then choose <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> from the popup menu.</para>
<para>The <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> dialog contains the following components: </para>
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<title>&applet; Preferences Dialog</title>
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<para>Use this drop-down list to select the CPU that you want to monitor.</para>
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<title>Selecting the CPU to monitor</title>
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<note><para>
The <guilabel>Monitored CPU</guilabel> option will only appear on
multiprocessor (SMP) systems.
</para></note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show in Mode</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Use this drop-down list to select the mode in which you want to display the applet.
Available modes are: Graphic, Text and both (Graphic and Text)
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show CPU frequency as frequency</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Select this option to display the current CPU frequency.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show frequency units</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Select this option to display or not the frequency units in the frequency mode.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show CPU frequency as percentage</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Select this option to display the current CPU frequency as a percentage.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Show menu</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This option allows you to choose how much information is shown in
the frequency selector dropdown
(see <xref linkend="mate-cpufreq-selector"/>). You can select to
display <guilabel>Frequencies</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Governors</guilabel> or both <guilabel>Frequencies and
Governors</guilabel>.
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<title>The selector configured to Frequencies and Governors</title>
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<phrase>CPU governors selector</phrase>
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</para>
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