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Kima - kicker monitoring applet

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Description:

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).
Last 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

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Michaelaustin

11 years ago

Do you plan on intigrating any other sensors into Kima? At present it only shows temperatures, fan speed and cpuu frequency, do you plan on including a battery monitor etc? OOr does a battery monitor already exist in Kima?

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kenws

11 years ago

Kima is not necessarily limited to temperatures, frequency and fan speed. As the changelog suggests Kima adds more and more sensors that hopefully includes battery sensors too in the future. The next release brings a new NVidia source and some internal structural changes.

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srochon

11 years ago

Hi

I just installed Mika onto my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop with Suse 10.2 installed. I installed the i8kUtils packages but can't see the fan panel within Mika. Do I have to install anything else to get it to work/show?

Thanks

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kenws

11 years ago

Hello Stephane,
Kima needs the i8k kernel module loaded before it starts. Otherwise the source can't be detected. Please modprobe the i8k module. Then a 'cat /proc/i8k' should give you some values. If so, you could start the applet via: appletproxy `kde-config --prefix`/share/apps/kicker/applets/kima.desktop

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srochon

11 years ago

Hi, thanks for your response.

I do have the i8k kernel drivers installed

Here is he output of "cat /proc/i8k"
1.0 A14 1V99Z0J 45 0 0 0 0 -1 2

I installed the i8kutils packages, but it is still does not work.

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kenws

11 years ago

Hello,
the output looks not too bad. I took a closer look to your /proc/i8k value which says your machine runs Bios A14. Which model do you have? Knowing that one could check whether the fan speed is supported on your notebook (see http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/00-README). The fan status shows valid values but the fan seems not to be rotating (which should be reported as 0 rpm). However Kima should at least provide a Source named "CPU". The provider of the source is shown in the preferences dialog that should state: "This source is provided by i8k kernel module.".

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srochon

11 years ago

My laptop is Dell Inspiron 8600. I have for the last 4 years.

I will check if I can update the BIOS.
Thanks

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kenws

11 years ago

From what I can see here I have no indication why it shouldn't work. If the kernel module is loaded before Kima starts and you have the i8k sources in the preferences dialog enabled it should display your CPU temperature and Fan speed.

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kenws

11 years ago

What happens if you perform the following command:
cat /proc/i8k && appletproxy `kde-config --prefix`/share/apps/kicker/applets/kima.desktop
It should first read your i8k values (just to ensure the module is loaded) and then a small window should pop up containing the Kima applet showing all available sources.

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srochon

11 years ago

Ya ok the A14 bios is the latest driver for my laptop.

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srochon

11 years ago

I used Fedora Code 6 and GKrellM for a year without any problems with the fans and was able to control the fans temperatures and speed.

I installed Suse 10.2 to get the wireless card working. I can't find GKrellM for Suse 10.2, so that is why I tried Kima.

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srochon

11 years ago

Also the applet show the THM value in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius. Any way I can change that. Also the only panels I see is cpufreq0, proc and THM.

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kenws

11 years ago

You can switch to metric system per kcontrol: "Regional & Accessibility"->"Country/Region & Language"->"Other"->"Measure system"->"Metric" and restart the applet.

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muczy

11 years ago

Very good program!
I would need 2 more functions:
- hddtemp support
- nvidia gpu core temp support
The first one is a must, i think!

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linmain

11 years ago

for the next version of kima, we built in support for the core and ambient temperature of your nvidia card.

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Voytaz

11 years ago

Kima is very useful for me, thank you.
From now on i don't need to install karamba on my laptop:)

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brazzmonkey

11 years ago

i'm getting visual artefacts with kima when my auto-hiding transparent kicker panel appears. no big deal but i thought you had to know.

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kenws

11 years ago

Yes, you are right. It is updated if the value changes. I'll try to improve this. Thanks.

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gohanz

11 years ago

A Slackware 11.0 package with SlackBuild is ready to download!

http://www.slacky.it/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=29&func=fileinfo&id=873


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pupil

11 years ago

available at my site and also added to openSUSE Build Service:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dsbhayangkara/

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pupil

11 years ago

x86_64 package available at http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dsbhayangkara/

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pupil

11 years ago

SLE 10 package (i586, x86_64) available at:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dsbhayangkara/

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Xemanth

11 years ago

Nice, this is the kicker applet which I have been searching for.

Feature request:
Is it possible to make temps and other stuff movable?

And It would be nice to see in the list aticonfig's gpu and mem mhz.

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linux3114a

11 years ago

kima-0.6-lotus.i586.rpm
at
http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/

under DOWNLOAD section ( My SuSE RPM's )

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MrGosh

11 years ago

Thanks for the rpm, but can you cross-compile a 64bit version too?

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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

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