How to display CPU and other temperatures in a panel?

[oshunluvr]

Seems ripe for a fun Conky script

[Schwarzer Kater]

I don't think Conky will work well (or at all?) within a panel…

But as I wrote: I will probaly switch to the Colorfull Gauge plugin that claydoh suggested when Thermal Monitor Fix does not work anymore - let's wait for Kubuntu 24.04 and Debian 13, until then I am contended.

[claydoh]

I imagine the 'fix' applet just needs to be edited to use the current libraries that replaced the ones formerly in the ksysguardd package, but someone's gotta actually do it.

[GreyGeek]

I use psensor. It is in the repository. If you allow it in the panel and hoover the mouse over it a popup will show all the sensors you've set to show. If you click on it a dialog will display showing the sensors values and displaying a graph it temp vs time, except for the CPU, which shows % usage. The icon in the tray will flash a color if a sensor goes out of range.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Thanks GreyGeek - I am contended by now (with my - temporary - solution), but how would Psensor look within a panel (and can it be used this way at all)?
My goal is something that looks very similar to post number 5.

[Schwarzer Kater]

There has been a "new" Thermal Monitor plug-in for Plasma 5 for about three months now.
See: https://store.kde.org/p/2070765/

I briefly tested it with Kubuntu 23.10 (Plasma panel), openSUSE Tumbleweed and Debian 12 (both with Latte Dock panel)- so far it works without problems and does not need an additional (and deprecated) ksysguardd.
It has less options to configure the look (as yet?) than the "old" Thermal Monitor and Thermal Monitor Fix plug-ins, but is very nice and promising IMHO.

And it is even already available for Plasma 6 !

[jglen490]

Psensor. Works well, and is somewhat configurable. Maybe not the prettiest presentation, but it is useful. I do not keep mine on screen at all times - it's just not that necessary.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Second time somebody suggested Psensor…
I do know about Psensor (and psensor-server), but in a (Plasma or Latte Dock) panel …?

Feel free to educate me!

[jglen490]

Here's what it looks like ...



To drop it down to the tray, click the top right "x". The icon will stay in the tray.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Thank you for the screenshot, but how does Psensor display selected temperatures in a panel then? For an example see e.g. the screenshot in post # 5.
Because that is what this thread originally was about…

[jglen490]

It's not going to do that. It is it's own app. Of course it's Linux, so maybe you can rewrite it

But, seriously while it's a very good app, I don't believe it's going to satisfy your expectations.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Ah, OK - thanks for clearing this up. Because I have never found any option in Psensor to display something in a panel (and sometimes one can be "blind").

So the "new" Thermal Monitor plug-in seems to be the best option - at least for future Plasma releases - so far.

[jglen490]

You're welcome! And, of course, to each his own, as the saying goes. Linux provides all the choices we need - and sometimes don't want

[Schwarzer Kater]

So here is an example how the "new" Thermal Monitor (https://store.kde.org/p/2070765/) looks like in a panel.

TUXEDO OS 2 with "new" Thermal Monitor in the Plasma panel (panel height 40 px, standard font Noto Sans):

[TRobo]

Hi Schwarzer Kater, I've just circled back to this thread after discovering the "new" Thermal Monitor widget as well. It's great that it doesn't need ksysguardd, although relying on ksystemstats means that it can't show me all of the HDD temps in my system until someone writes a plugin for ksystemstats to handle those. The older versions of Thermal Monitor used javascript to access HDD sensors via either udisks2 or smartmontools, but ksystemstats doesn't have that capability. ksystemstats can show me only the temp of my NVMe drive because it sees it as a PCI device.

Just one question for you, did you find that in order to show the chosen name of the device with the "new" Thermal Monitor widget that you have to set the minimum panel height to 40 px? I usually go a little smaller than that, but then the names disappear if I do that.

Edit: Oh, I just realised that the "new" Thermal Monitor works OK for me on KDE Neon, but when I try to install it on Kubuntu 22.04 LTS I get an error message:

"file:///home/redacted/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.olib.thermalmonitor/contents/ui/main.qml:12:1: module "org.kde.kirigami" version 2.20 is not installed"

So I guess that Plasma version is too old on Kubuntu 22.04? I'm not even sure how to check what version of kirigami I have on there.

Thanks.