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CPU temperature applet

Tuesday, July 4, 2006 ★ 14:57 ★ Category Gnome

A tip for the hot summer days: apt-get install lm-sensors sensors-applet and add the sensor applet to your panel. Setup the sensor and use this as the alarm command: notify-send -u critical 'CPU Temperature too high!'. It will popup a notification bubble if the temperature becomes too high.

Sensor configuration

Update: it seems that newer sensor-applet versions use libnotify directly: the notification bubble points to the sensors applet and has a nice icon too. Debian packaged this version just 1 day after I posted the notify-send trick… I suspect a conspiracy.