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[JustGreg]

Jemimah's excellent traytemp does not work under Puppy 5.0 Lucid. Here is a small BASH / GTKDialog script to display the acpi temperature value in a small window. The pet installs the script chck-temp to /usr/bin, the usual desktop file to /usr/share/applications and an icon to /usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons. After the pet installs, there is a entry of Check Temperature in the Utility / General Utilities menu. With a little editing, one can have in the launcher section (next to Menu button) of JWM tray.

This does not monitor the temperature, so no warnings are given. But, it does allow one to check on it.

17 June 2010, I found a better looking thermometer image.

24 June 2010, I incorporated the code from rcrsn51 to handle the different versions of the file name with the temperature data

I hope this is a help.

[8-bit]

It would do me no good on my Toshiba Satellite L550 laptop.
It seems it does not have any readable temperature sensors.
At least I could never get any results from pwidgets.
pwidgets also says it can find no fan.
The laptop has a fan.
But at the same time, hardware info reports the temperature as 51 Celsius.
I installed CPU frequency scaling tool also.

[JustGreg]

This pet is very simple. Try entering this code in a console terminal window (urxvt):

[prehistoric]

Hi Greg,

I just borrowed a little code to display md5sums for iso files. This allowed me to add this to a custom ROX menu for iso files without putting gtkhash in luci 203. (Myself, I use gtkhash, but I don't want to force the overhead on everyone.)

[JustGreg]

From Prehistoric:

[nitejumper]

First post for me, thanks everybody for the help I've gotten over the past 3 months with Puppy.

8bit, et al, the command to read temperature in MY machine is "cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature".

Notice the spelling of 'THM'.
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I've been wanting a digital temperature display for my system tray in Icewm, but haven't been able to find one. I cobbled this thing together (my first program that compiled, and my first time making PNGs).

Since I had just modified pbatt to show battery percentage icons, I borrowed heavily from brad_chuck's program (in fact, the header in the source code still calls itself 'pbatt'). I just cut stuff out of 'bevent' until it did what I wanted.

Since I'm already running pbatt (with percentage icons), new program had to call a bash script named something other than 'bevent' ('cause that's what is called by pbatt), but otherwise, the main program is identical to 'pbatt'.

I put the main program (temp_tray5) in /usr/bin, the folder with all the PNGs in /usr/local, and added this line to /root/Startup/icewm -

sleep 1 && temp_tray5 &

it works, at least for me, YMMV.
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next project is to modify 'freememapplet_tray_215ce' to display CPU load percentage in the system tray.
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nitejumper

[JustGreg]

Nitejumper, it is interesting that on your system, the temperature information is in directory

[nitejumper]

JustGreg said:

[rcrsn51]

[JustGreg]

Thanks, rcrsn51. I will add the code and try it out. If it works then I will post the new pet. It did work properly. I have updated the pet (first post) with the improved script. Thanks for the help!

Nitejumper, the acpitool works nicely with Lucid. It is a handy "add-on" for laptops, net books, etc. I have added it to my Lucid installation. Be careful with the acpid pet. The program acpid should be a kernel module. If acpid module was not build for the kernel (2.6.33.2) then it will not install and work. You need to check to ensure there are no problems. I have no experience with the particular pet that you mentioned, so I can not help on its use. But, I have tried using kernel modules and found the it can be difficult to get added one to work properly. I hope this helps.