Monitoring temperature and fanspeed graphically in Ubuntu

[Ari Torhamo]

ma, 2005-11-14 kello 03:48 +0100, ulrich steffens kirjoitti:

> you could also have a look at gdesklets. its in universe and unlike the
> sensors-applet the information is being displayed on the desktop.
> 
> ulrich


I installed gdesklets, but couldn't get out the temperature or fan speed
readings. After some struggle and head scratching I did sensor-detect in
terminal (read the readme :-), went through the process and tried again.
Now the desklet had sort of stopped working ("configure desklet" didn't
open and the log said "Something bad and unexpected happened."). Got the
idea of trying xsensors again (which I installed earlier and tried
without success) and now it worked! I almost couldn't believe my eyes.

Xsensors actually looks rather nice, but I still would like to have a
real Gnome UI. And above all, an easy to use graphical configuration
process. Maybe it wouldn't be so hard to build - sensor-detect of
lm-sensors seemd quite intelligent and perhaps needs just a frontend and
a good user guide.

Regards,

Ari