Quite an interesting one this, CoreCtrl from developer Juan Palacios aims to be a "game changer" in letting you setup your hardware to do things automatically when a program is launched and more. The developer tagged us on Twitter about it and it does seem pretty sweet.
CoreCtrl is a Free and Open Source GNU/Linux application that allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles. It aims to be flexible, comfortable and accessible to regular users.
You can use it to automatically configure your system when a program is launched (works for Windows applications too). It doesn't matter what the program is, a game, a 3D modeling application, a video editor or... even a compiler! It offers you full hardware control per application.
You can see the developer show it off in the below video:
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Currently, on the GPU side it only support AMD GPUs with controls for fan, frequency and power, multiple sensors and so on. It also has basic CPU support for controlling the frequency scaling governor and using sensors. However, they do have plans to support more GPUs and NVIDIA too of course.
It looks nice and the idea sounds great, will be interesting to see how far this one manages to progress. We don't have many user friendly graphical interfaces for doing things like this, so it's lovely to see more.
You can find CoreCtrl on GitLab. They have also started a Patreon to get some financial support for the project to push it further.
I haven't been able to get it to work personally, so I've filed a ticket to see if I can sort it to test it out. Edit: Fixed by a recent update.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: EikeWhat I'm unsure about regarding manual compilation is if programs are usually equiped to uninstall (without leaving cruft) themselves...
That's 100% up to the dev as this operation normally depends of makefile uninstall rule (or similar).
If you ask me, unless you have a very good/mandatory reason to have a system wide installation, you should always install any piece of software that doesn't comes from your distro repos inside of a specific folder on you home directory. Safer & cleaner IMHO.
Last edited by x_wing on 16 July 2019 at 1:33 pm UTC
Quoting: chancho_zombieI'm getting this error
Quote[15-07-19 09:56:59.196][W] Cannot start helper
[15-07-19 09:56:59.196][W] Initialization failed
[15-07-19 09:56:59.196][W] Exiting...
I'm getting the same error in Solus.
Quote[16-07-19 16:21:42.304][I] ----- Application started -----
[16-07-19 16:21:42.540][W] No translation found for locale en_US
[16-07-19 16:21:42.540][W] Using en_EN translation.
[16-07-19 16:21:42.757][E] [helpercontrol.cpp:131] Helper start error. DBus Backend error: service start org.corectrl.helper failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127
[16-07-19 16:21:42.757][W] Cannot start helper
[16-07-19 16:21:42.757][W] Initialization failed
[16-07-19 16:21:42.757][W] Exiting...
Quoting: linuxcitythis looks like wattman and overclocking may become alot more easier in linux.
It looks to be pretty much a carbon copy of wattman from what I've seen whilst playing around.
Not sure why AMD haven't opened wattman, apparently it's done in QT too.
Looks rather promising !
appetrosyan Jul 17, 2019
Quoting: GuestThe app just launched so give it time to add a flatpak or snap versions :)
and btw, is it a GTK application ? or does it have its own UI ?
It's QML. Not the Kirigami kind that integrates with the DE, just the vanilla with Material Design.
Quoting: NezchanSo you did learn, then. As I said, “I agree that on a 'consumer'-oriented distro nobody should ever have to install from source”. Nothing in my comment opposes yours.Quoting: DuncWhile I agree that on a “consumer”-oriented distro nobody should ever have to install from source, I can't understand the attitude that refuses to learn. You might find it useful or interesting in the future.Dude, I used to run Slackware. I know all about building from source.
Quote"Useful or interesting" is for techie hobbyists, and I'm happy to leave it to them.Well, firstly, “useful” is for anyone. But we're on a gaming site that eschews MS Windows. To that extent, aren't we all hobbyists? :)
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