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I would like to execute a command which requires sudo privileges. Specifically, I want to set my CPU frequency to a performance governor using the following script.
sudo cpufreq-set -g performance
What I have done so far is I have added this custom command from System Settings -> Applications -> Startup. I also changed the permission of the newly created file from ~/.config/autostart. However, the sudo command is still not executing. Are there any other ways to do this?
If you have a laptop, you can use TLP to automatically set it.
If you prefer a more simple method, you can create a systemd service that will execute at startup.
sudo io.elementary.code /etc/systemd/system/cpuperformance.service
[Unit]
Description=Set CPU performance governor
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cpufreq-set -g performance
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Close that file and then execute sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable cpuperformance.service.
If you want to disable this in the future you can use sudo systemctl disable cpuperformance.service and sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/cpuperformance.service to remove the file.
tasksel laptop command.
– Orlando Lewis
Sep 20 '20 at 15:24
