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Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages

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On 9/17/23 08:50, Darac Marjal wrote:
> 
> On 17/09/2023 11:39, gene heskett wrote:
>> On 9/17/23 05:35, Phil Wyett wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 17:06 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
>>>> On 9/16/23 14:55, Phil Wyett wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 08:17 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
>>>>>> Greetings all;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> gkrellm has traditionally used mbmon to collect the motherboard
>>>>>> data
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> temps and voltages that it can display. Bub mbmon won't run
>>>>>> because
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> can't find the monitor util for this mid-range asus mobo.
>>>>>> Complains
>>>>>> because it cannot find a via-686 thing, which sounds a bit dated
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just spent around 3 hours with synaptic looking for likely
>>>>>> suspects
>>>>>> w/o any hits.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Asus z-370 mobo, i5 flavor full 32G memory
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any suggestions??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks all;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Would more up to date packages like 'lm-sensors' and/or 'dmidecode'
>>>>> possible give you the data you are looking for? Any additional
>>>>> information on the data you require and how it would be used would
>>>>> be
>>>>> advantageous.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Phil
>>>>>
>>>> Both of those are the newest versions according to apt.
>>>> Thanks Phll
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> gkrellm does not depend on mbmon currently. mbmom should not be part of
>>> a current conversation regarding use of gkrellm as I see it.
>>>
>>> What data are you wanting from the motherboard and what have you tried
>>> thus far?
>>>
>>> Notes:
>>>
>>> gkrellm depends on gtk2 and should be avoided IMHO.
>>>
>>> Both gkrellm and especially mbmon are very dated and IMHO should not be
>>> used with newer hardware as they likely do not fit requirements.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>> No doubt true, but I've not found anything else you can park along the 
>> edge of the screen on every workspace so you've a constantly visible 
>> machine status. And I've not found anything that can report psu etc 
>> voltages, or fan speeds from those that have tach's since buster. 
>> Temps and other stuff still work though.  I find it handier than the 
>> lock button on the outhouse door at a family picnic. If Bill wilson 
>> has dropped it, what are folks using now?
> 
> In the world of i3 window managers (i3, i3gaps, sway etc), there is a 
> convention to have a "bar" along the top or bottom edge of the screen. 
> i3 is a tiling window manager so it's not usual to have a taskbar, but 
> it's still useful to have somewhere to put "widgets" such as the system 
> tray and the "bar" fulfils this function. There is a "bar" protocol 
> allowing several programs to exist which handle the actual rendering of 
> the bar, plus nearly all of these bars use an accompanying "status" 
> program to provide the actual content. The "status" program (i3status, 
> py3status, conky etc) handles all the hard work of querying sensors, 
> finding free space etc and presents it in a text form to the bar.
> 
> The upshot of this is that the "bar" and "status" programs can, with a 
> bit of tinkering, present live statistics of just about any part of your 
> system (personally, my bar consists of: the weather, disk space, memory 
> usage, CPU usage, CPU temperature, network throughput, battery level, 
> headphone battery level, sound system volume, backlight level, date and 
> time).
> 
> You don't need to switch to a tiling window manager to use a bar, 
> though. https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki claims to work quite 
> nicely with window mangers such as GNOME or KDE's.
> 
> 
>>
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
sounds promising, I;ll look into some of them. Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-16 14:20 +0200
  Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2023-09-16 17:40 +0200
    Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-16 23:10 +0200
  Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2023-09-16 20:30 +0200
    Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-16 23:10 +0200
      Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2023-09-17 11:30 +0200
  Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2023-09-16 21:00 +0200
    Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-16 23:10 +0200
      Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2023-09-17 11:40 +0200
        Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au> - 2023-09-17 12:20 +0200
          Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2023-09-17 12:40 +0200
        Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-17 12:50 +0200
          Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2023-09-17 13:00 +0200
          Re: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-09-17 23:20 +0200
        Replacing Gkrellm (was: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-09-17 19:30 +0200
          Re: Replacing Gkrellm (was: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord  temp and voltages) Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> - 2023-09-17 20:00 +0200
            Re: Replacing Gkrellm Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-09-22 00:20 +0200

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