
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

Michaelaustin
11 years ago
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kenws
11 years ago
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srochon
11 years ago
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
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
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
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
I will check if I can update the BIOS.
Thanks
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kenws
11 years ago
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kenws
11 years ago
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
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srochon
11 years ago
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
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kenws
11 years ago
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muczy
11 years ago
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
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Voytaz
11 years ago
From now on i don't need to install karamba on my laptop:)
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brazzmonkey
11 years ago
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kenws
11 years ago
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gohanz
11 years ago
http://www.slacky.it/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=29&func=fileinfo&id=873
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pupil
11 years ago
http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dsbhayangkara/
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pupil
11 years ago
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pupil
11 years ago
http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dsbhayangkara/
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Xemanth
11 years ago
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
at
http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/
under DOWNLOAD section ( My SuSE RPM's )
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MrGosh
11 years ago
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