How to Change Your CPU Governor in Linux With CPUPower-GUI

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In this video I cover how to easily change your CPU governor using a GUI tool called CPUPower-GUI.

https://github.com/vagnum08/cpupower-gui

Step 1. Install CPUPower-GUI.

https://github.com/vagnum08/cpupower-gui#packages

Please note that sometimes you may need to install libhandy-1-dev to get the application to work.

To do this on an Ubuntu based distribution, run the following Terminal command.

sudo apt install libhandy-1-dev

Step 2. Use CPUPower-GUI.

The interface is straightforward, the Settings tab will allow you to switch between the governors available for your CPU, if supported turn off cores in order to save energy, and specify a minimum or maximum CPU frequency.

Step 3. Set CPU Governor At Boot.

The Preferences tab allows you to specify a default profile to load at boot, however this only currently works with the Gnome desktop environment.

However you can get this working on other desktop environments if you edit the cpupower_gui.conf file located in the / etc directory.

For example, to enable the Performance governor on boot, set the below.

[Profile]
profile = Performance

Save the file once done.

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