Laptop Temperature Monitor

I recently downloaded and used Laptop Temperature Monitor, a user-friendly applet designed for the GNOME desktop. It provides real-time temperature updates for your laptop CPU on your desktop screen. Additionally, you can log temperature readings to a file for future reference. This handy software is free to use and is released under the GNU General Public License.

Installation of Laptop Temperature Monitor is simple and can be completed by following a few easy steps. You'll need to unzip the package file (tar xzf laptoptemp-0.2.tar.gz), navigate to the installation directory (cd laptoptemp-0.2), run the configure file (./configure), compile the software (make), and finally install the software (sudo make install).

Users should keep in mind that to run Laptop Temperature Monitor, some requirements will need to be met. You'll need python, python-gnome, and python-gnome-extras.

One of the highlights of the latest Laptop Temperature Monitor release is its added support for monitoring Harddisk temperatures (using hddtemp). Additionally, the software now also allows for monitoring of Linux kernel i2c sensor modules. Users can now select which sensor they want to monitor, if several are available. The latest release has also added Italian and Dutch translations, courtesy of Stefano Maggiolo and Adriaan Peeters, respectively. Lastly, there have been bug fixes for i8k and ibm_acpi modules, as well as various minor bugs.

Overall, using Laptop Temperature Monitor made monitoring my laptop CPU temperature very easy and provided a wide range of features that I found quite useful. If you're looking for an easy-to-use and reliable temperature monitoring software, Laptop Temperature Monitor could be a great fit for you.