temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
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temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
Is there an app that will live in the system tray, one to display the system temperature and another to display the speed of the cpu and allow you to control the cpu speed/policy?
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Re: temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
You have to install lm-sensors. Open a terminal and run this command.syeager wrote:display the system temperature
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sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
Then test the sensor output using the lm-sensors utility "sensors".
What you can monitor depends on what your motherboard supports and what lm-sensors found.
You may have to reboot at different stages of this process.
Lm-sensors can be tricky to configure correctly so be prepared to Google.
Right click the panel,syeager wrote:display the speed of the cpu and allow you to control the cpu speed/policy?
select "add to panel",
select "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor",
select "add"
(This is how it's done in Mint Main Gnome Edition, I don't know how it's done on
the Fluxbox Edition, but "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor" is the name of the utility.)
mick
Re: temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
lm-sensors is installed and sensors works. however, that does not give me a icon in the system tray to display temperature.
the gnome method will not work in fluxbox and with the new tint2 panel. i believe the tool you are using is an applet for the gnome toolbar/panel, not the system tray. any other thoughts?
the gnome method will not work in fluxbox and with the new tint2 panel. i believe the tool you are using is an applet for the gnome toolbar/panel, not the system tray. any other thoughts?
Re: temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
I found gatotray, which is a nice tool to display both cpu temp, usage, and frequency. You can find it here:
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Softwar ... otray.html
I had to install libgtk2.0-dev and I modified the background color to show a different color for whether I am at the slower or faster speed. It is working.
It should display the top processes, but that does not work. I also wanted to make the background transparent but I could not find a way to do that.
So, now how can I set the cpu speed policy? I want to add menu options to set the speed to max/min/auto or whatever?
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Softwar ... otray.html
I had to install libgtk2.0-dev and I modified the background color to show a different color for whether I am at the slower or faster speed. It is working.
It should display the top processes, but that does not work. I also wanted to make the background transparent but I could not find a way to do that.
So, now how can I set the cpu speed policy? I want to add menu options to set the speed to max/min/auto or whatever?
Re: temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
nice app ! thanks !
gatotray
1. download and extract (current is 1.10)
2. sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
3. cd gatotray
4. make
5. ./gatotray
but doesnt have hdd temp or any options
gatotray
1. download and extract (current is 1.10)
2. sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
3. cd gatotray
4. make
5. ./gatotray
but doesnt have hdd temp or any options
Re: temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
How you setup conky ?
i installed it from the repository
i installed it from the repository
Re: temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
oh ok , in terminal
conky [options]
man conky for info
create a custom conky setup
http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/04/ ... nky-setup/
post your .conkyrc files
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865
conky way better , you jus saved my conky life
conky [options]
man conky for info
create a custom conky setup
http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/04/ ... nky-setup/
post your .conkyrc files
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865
conky way better , you jus saved my conky life
Re: temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
To me it was just my .conkyrc
TEMP HD : ${hddtemp /dev/sda}
TEMP CPU: ${execi 3 sensors | grep "Core 0" | cut -d+ -f2 | cut -c1-2}
CPU FREQ: ${freq} MHz
and CPU
${font sans:bold:size=7}CPU: ${cpu cpu}% ${cpubar cpu}
TEMP HD : ${hddtemp /dev/sda}
TEMP CPU: ${execi 3 sensors | grep "Core 0" | cut -d+ -f2 | cut -c1-2}
CPU FREQ: ${freq} MHz
and CPU
${font sans:bold:size=7}CPU: ${cpu cpu}% ${cpubar cpu}
Re: temperature icon and cpu control in system tray
nice ima try that .conkyrc , way to many examples didnt work for me then I found out I should have installed the conky-all in software manager