Monday, September 19, 2016

More updates, again, part 2, return of the update

More stuff:

PadLock

Fixed a crash caused when attempting to open the information of a package that has a large number of activities. This is not an actual crash, but the Package Manager will stop working which causes some problems to occur such as the list not being displayed, or in some cases, the
ErrorDialog being shown asking you to restart the application.

The current fix is just a band-aid workaround, but it prevents the application from effectively halting whenever it meets a binder transaction error in the package manager.

This has so far only been observed when attempting to view Google Play Services, so user be warned.

pstate-frequency (dev):

Version bump to 3.5.0

Adds support for custom power plans via configuration files. Config files can either specify:

PLAN_AUTO_AC and PLAN_AUTO_BAT meaning this is a shim plan that calls through to actual power plans based on whether the machine is on AC power or battery.

PLAN_CPU_* which means this is an actual plan which defines values to set the CPU to.

Currently these config files are simply sourced by the shell process, meaning that can technically execute arbitrary code. The plans shipped with pstate-frequency are safe, and you should not notice any change from older versions like 3.4.0, but please be careful when adding in custom plans as any complex logic you may have in the plan file will be executed potentially as root.

Currently pstate-frequency ships with 5 plans which are set to mimic the old functionality when power plans were hardcoded into the script. Hopefully by using custom plans, users will be able to better configure pstate-frequency to suit their individual needs (such as my own like setting a CPU max of 85 for balanced plans) without having to do so many command line overrides.

steam-wrapper (dev):

Version bump to 0.6.0

Adds support for running in a 32-bit namespace using linux32 which may potentially fix issues with games that run a 64-bit client for 64-bit hosts and cause performance issues (looking at you, CS: GO). The default value of this option is 0 (off) but it can be overridden in the conf file or on the comand line using the -b option.

Fixes a dbus-crash on exit which was observed on ArchLinux systems.


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