Where to place commands I want automatically executed at system boot?

Jumpy

I recently found out a way to keep my miniPC fan noise at low levels by under-clocking the CPU using these two commands below:
$ sudo cpupower frequency-set -g powersave $ sudo cpupower frequency-set --max 3400000
But where should I place these commands on my Solus Budgie system, so they are always automatically applied whenever I turn on my computer, and preferably regardless of the user if that's possible?

carlberger

That would be systemd. One example is here:

https://zt4ff.medium.com/running-scripts-on-boot-in-linux-using-systemd-e10d3606f28f

Search the web for "systemd exec command on boot" , to get more how-to's

brent

Solarmass But I am not sure if it would work for your command running as sudo.

something I've never tried either. Be amazed if it worked. that's the way I would do it as well (if it let me).

Could also modify the /root .desktopfile too if sudo not an issue.

carlberger this article is really interesting: create the command, change permissions for user to execute command so sudo is out of the picture, then do a one-time sudo systemctl start service at startup command. Would take some finesses and concentration but sudo problem solved.

Solarmass

In Budgie settings there is Autostart option. But I am not sure if it would work for your command running as sudo.
Another option is systemd units service
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/User

pomon

Try.
Create the service file

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/cpupower-tweaks.service

Paste this:

[Unit]
Description=Set CPU governor and max frequency
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cpupower frequency-set -g powersave
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cpupower frequency-set --max 3400000

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable the service

sudo systemctl enable cpupower-tweaks.service

To verify after reboot:

systemctl status cpupower-tweaks.service
cpupower frequency-info

The first one shows if the service ran correctly.
The second lets you check if the governor and frequency limits were applied.

Jumpy

Thank you all for your replies. I will probably use these autostart methods more than once in the future.