
This applet monitors various temperature, frequency and fan sources in your kicker panel.
Make sure you have enabled a supported kernel module.
Homepage:
http://kima.sourceforge.net
Features:
supported thermal sources:
- the Linux ACPI Thermal Zone driver. The corresponding kernel module is called thermal.
- the thermal sources of the Linux ACPI driver for the IBM ThinkPad laptops. The corresponding kernel module is called ibm-acpi.
- the IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS) driver. The corresponding kernel module is called hdaps.
- the Omnibook Configuration Tools & Patches. The corresponding kernel module is called omnibook.
- the iBook G4 CPU and GPU thermal zones. It may work on other Apple machines as well (please let me know).
- the thermal sensors available through hwmon (I2C, lm_sensors, ...).
- the CPU thermal sensor of the i8k kernel driver for Dell Inspiron and Latitude notebooks.
- the GPU thermal sensors of nvidia-settings (provided by the nVidia GPU card driver tools)
- the termal sensors provided by hddtemp daemon (make sure hddtemp runs on 127.0.0.1 port 7634 before kima starts)
supported frequency sources:
- the Linux kernel /proc/cpuinfo interface
- the Linux kernel cpufreq subsystem
supported fan sources:
- the fan sensors available through hwmon (I2C, lm_sensors, ...).
- the fan sources of the Linux ACPI driver for the IBM ThinkPad laptops. The corresponding kernel module is called ibm-acpi.
- the fan sources of the i8k kernel driver for Dell Inspiron and Latitude notebooks.
misc sources:
- CPU usage source
- uptime source that displays the current system uptime
- battery source that displays the current state of charge of your batteries
misc:
- cpufreqd control module to switch cpufreqd profiles via cpufreqd remote interface
installation:
grab a appropriate package for your distribution or the sources below.
using the source:
run configure
./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix)
build the sources
make
install the applet (with appropriate rights)
su -c 'make install'
finally add the applet to your KDE panel (RMB on kicker).
10 years ago
Kima 0.7.4:
- CPU usage source added
- russian translation added
Kima 0.7.3.2:
- thread wakeups minimized which should lead to a better powertop result
- crash fix: prevent i18n calls from within threads (it seems i18n isn't thread safe)
Kima 0.7.3.1:
- the 0.7.3 tag was inconsistent to the released tar.gz so we decided to release 0.7.3.1
- improvements regarding the dbus error handling
- XNVCtrl support fixed
- small autoconf/automake script improvements
Kima 0.7.3:
- more robust battery source in case of libhal/dbus errors
- since Kima 0.7.2 was already tagged we jump to 0.7.3 the changeog lists the never released 0.7.2 though
Kima 0.7.2:
- battery source added that displays the current state of charge of your batteries through libhal
- nvidia thermal source: optional configure switch added to query libXNVCtrl.a instead of nvidia-settings
- updated admin directory that supports automake 1.10
- swedish, turkish and indonesian translation added (thanks to Oskar Ellström, UÄŸur í‡etin and Donnie S Bhayangkara)
- translation fixes
- processes started by kicker does not exit correctly because of kimas' use of QProcess. KProcess fixes the problem
Kima 0.7.1:
- uptime source added
- initial source scanning parallelized
- spanish translation added
- hungary translation added
- german translation fixes
- hddtemp source bugfix, in case reading from network failed
- preferences bugfix, an enabled source was not displayed on kicker
- cursor fixed if one drags a source and clicks right mouse button
- encoding of the degree sign is now UTF8
Kima 0.7:
- support for moving the sources via drag and drop added
- support for hddtemp daemon added (http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php)
- german translation added
- repainting of the sources improved
visit http://kima.sourceforge.net/#changelog for reading the full changelog
10 years ago
Kima 0.7.4:
- CPU usage source added
- russian translation added
Kima 0.7.3.2:
- thread wakeups minimized which should lead to a better powertop result
- crash fix: prevent i18n calls from within threads (it seems i18n isn't thread safe)
Kima 0.7.3.1:
- the 0.7.3 tag was inconsistent to the released tar.gz so we decided to release 0.7.3.1
- improvements regarding the dbus error handling
- XNVCtrl support fixed
- small autoconf/automake script improvements
Kima 0.7.3:
- more robust battery source in case of libhal/dbus errors
- since Kima 0.7.2 was already tagged we jump to 0.7.3 the changeog lists the never released 0.7.2 though
Kima 0.7.2:
- battery source added that displays the current state of charge of your batteries through libhal
- nvidia thermal source: optional configure switch added to query libXNVCtrl.a instead of nvidia-settings
- updated admin directory that supports automake 1.10
- swedish, turkish and indonesian translation added (thanks to Oskar Ellström, UÄŸur í‡etin and Donnie S Bhayangkara)
- translation fixes
- processes started by kicker does not exit correctly because of kimas' use of QProcess. KProcess fixes the problem
Kima 0.7.1:
- uptime source added
- initial source scanning parallelized
- spanish translation added
- hungary translation added
- german translation fixes
- hddtemp source bugfix, in case reading from network failed
- preferences bugfix, an enabled source was not displayed on kicker
- cursor fixed if one drags a source and clicks right mouse button
- encoding of the degree sign is now UTF8
Kima 0.7:
- support for moving the sources via drag and drop added
- support for hddtemp daemon added (http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php)
- german translation added
- repainting of the sources improved
visit http://kima.sourceforge.net/#changelog for reading the full changelog

kenws
11 years ago
kima 0.7 support values provided by hddtemp in daemon mode. Make sure hddtemp runs on 127.0.0.1 port 7634 before kima starts.
Regards
Ken
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devsk
11 years ago
one more thing: I was wondering if "applies-to-all" font setting makes sense? all the items have same font size for me now and it is lower than the kde 'general font' and I had to edit 13 items. No biggy though!
Man, I am loving it! Thanks a bunch!
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linmain
11 years ago
about your font idea, that's a good one and we will think about it,
have fun, litb
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devsk
11 years ago
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linmain
11 years ago
<span style="color:blue;">CPU	</span>
the 	 will make Qt to insert a tab character.
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jesvj
11 years ago
I've just installed Kubuntu Feisty Herd 4 and it seems to work rather well on my Thinkpad T43. I miss Kima though, it's a nice piece of software :-)
Since Feisty seems usable by now it would be great of you would add a .deb for it. Thanks in advance
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kenws
11 years ago
I could try to build one if someone provides a ssh-login to a feisty-box. I think it could be done in less than an hour. Feel free to contact me via Jabber.
Regards
Ken
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fireedo
11 years ago
thanx
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kenws
11 years ago
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flyingeagle2
11 years ago
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linux3114a
11 years ago
at
http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/lotus.html
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muczy
11 years ago
But i only get the crash dialog, and (perhaps another) panel is already started.... :-S
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screemo
11 years ago
I'm using powernowd, and have added kima to the standard kicker panel.
Tried deleting the configurationfile aswell, but no change.
Could you please look into this ?
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kenws
11 years ago
thanks for reporting the bug. We figured out that KGlobal::locale()->measureSystem() isn't thread safe and changed Kimas code. I would really like to thank Johannes and Peter who helped me debugging this all night long. Kima 0.6.3 is now on its way.
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RND
11 years ago
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pupil
11 years ago
assuming your motherboard is supported.
install sensors package from yast, then run /usr/sbin/sensors-detect. follow the on-screen instructions (especially the one that require you to paste some text to /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/init.d/boot.local). restart KDE.
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jazztyle
11 years ago
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pupil
11 years ago
- my website -> i586
and the following repository (for YAST installation source):
- my repository (SLE 10, opensuse 10.2) -> i586, x86_64
- KDE:Community repository (SLES 9, suse 9.3, suse 10.0, suse 10.1, SLE 10, opensuse 10.2, suse factory) -> i586, x86_64. http://repos.opensuse.org/KDE:/Community
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mp83
11 years ago
i added the debian packages (sid and etch) to my repository. (debian.cp69.de)
big up..
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slux83
11 years ago
I would suggest to insert the percentage of the CPU usage!! :)
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rbryant4
11 years ago
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock
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linux3114a
11 years ago
at
http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/lotus.html
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jazztyle
11 years ago
on my machine, kima does not save its settings... whenever i remove and reload the applet it loads the defaults which are far too big for my panel...
I already tried the svn version also, but its the same behavior...
Dont know whats causing this (maybe not implemented yet?) ...
Beside this, kima is the best solution i have seen so far (works also great on dual core), so keep up the great work :)
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kenws
11 years ago
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jazztyle
11 years ago
I am eagerly awaiting the next version :)
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