LXpanel cpufreq frontend menu is disabled

[Random832]

The menu [which is used to select what governor, and what frequency for userspace governor] is disabled (apparently deliberately, source code comments say it's because it won't work without root privs, and the method it uses indeed requires root access), but this should really be fixed and changed to use gksudo if root authentication is required.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mr Anonimus (altj2)]

i fixed it for my distro
patch is against lxpanel 0.8.2
you're free to use the patch for ubuntu or upstream it into lxde proper.
cheers.

https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/blob/f0588913c2add95aa1de90025d60ebe9ba8e26ff/KEEP/lxpanel-cpufreq.patch

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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