question about temperature monitor

[Marty Jack]

I have an lm_sensors based thermal plugin running in the development panel. You are able to select the sensor you want to monitor. Because it is lm_sensors based, it is as good as the hardware drivers. (The coretemp driver is a little behind the latest Intel chips.)

The answer for why the temperature looks like 22000 is that the hardware reports it in thousandths of a degree. This is another reason why you want to be lm_sensors based; the accumulated base of knowledge about what units each sensor reports is in sensors.conf.

There is no committed release date at this time for the next feature release panel that I have been working on. It is, as yet, too unfinished and unstable for anyone else to be running. For now, conky or gkrellm are a way to see these sensors, if you wish to use the desktop space.

[graysky]

Cool, thanks for the update.

[wombalton]

any thing new here?

I'm using LXPanel 0.5.7 on archlinux with kernel 2.6.39 and the temperature monitor applet just shows NA …
in the terminal however I can see lm-sensors is just working fine …

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$ sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:       +46.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1:       +46.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

is there anything I can type in the applet settings dialogue? I tried to put coretemp-isa-0000 in the Sensor field, but with no result at all... same with Core 0, core0, etc.
any other suggestions?

[worker201]

Anxiously awaiting further information on this matter. I am getting the same results as other users - sensors working fine, but unreadable by the Temperature Monitor applet.

[whatthefunk]

Ive given up on a panel applet and made a conky for it. Much easier.

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${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C

[Basilicum]

Hi,

What do you mean with a conky ?
Can you explain how to deploy the code:
${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C

I noticed that xfce has a sensors applet. Is there some generic way to apply xfce applets in lxde ?

regards

[piotreks]

What do you mean with a conky ?
Can you explain how to deploy the code:
${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C

I think conky refers to the conky package: http://conky.sourceforge.net/

I noticed that xfce has a sensors applet. Is there some generic way to apply xfce applets in lxde ?

Short answer: I don't think there is, at this point.
Long[er] answer: I'm not familiar with how XFCE interacts with gtk applets, but the LXPanel plugins have a specific API they need to adhere to.

[danamlund]

I made a lxpanel plugin that uses lm-sensors. This topic seems an appropriate place to mention it.

http://danamlund.dk/sensors_lxpanel_plugin/

It understands temperatures, fans and voltage sensors. Other types of sensors output raw data.

[lionhater]

I made a lxpanel plugin that uses lm-sensors. This topic seems an appropriate place to mention it.

http://danamlund.dk/sensors_lxpanel_plugin/

It understands temperatures, fans and voltage sensors. Other types of sensors output raw data.

Thanks danamlund, but can't install it in Mageia 2 LXDE:

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[burak@localhost sensors-lxpanel-plugin-1.0]$ make
gcc -Wall `pkg-config --cflags lxpanel gtk+-2.0` \
-shared -fPIC sensors.c -lsensors -o sensors.so \
`pkg-config --libs lxpanel gtk+-2.0`
[burak@localhost sensors-lxpanel-plugin-1.0]$ su
Password: 
[root@localhost sensors-lxpanel-plugin-1.0]# make install
cp sensors.so /usr/lib/lxpanel/plugins
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/lxpanel/plugins': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
[root@localhost sensors-lxpanel-plugin-1.0]# 

[danamlund]

Note to people: Lionhater and me solved the problem over email.

Turns out the plugins directory is different on 64bit machines.

I have updated the download. And it should install on either 32bit or 64bit machines now.

Thanks again to lionhater for the bug report.