CPU temps on the panel?

[Gary Hodges]

On 11/17/05, Andrew Otte <otte at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 1:16 pm, Peter Clark wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 November 2005 01:54, Gary Hodges wrote:
> > > Is there something like Gkrellm that will display my CPU temp and fan
> > > speed on the panel.  I use Gkrellm now, but it always seems to be in
> > > my way on the desktop.
> >
> >     Ktemperature will display the temperature in a systray applet. It's
> > available in the Universe pool. I don't know of any applet that controls
> > fan speed, however.
> >
> >     :Peter
> The package ksensors does all this and more.  I think you need to be running
> kde though.  Don't know for Gnome.

Well, I'm running KDE but I'm not getting much when I fire up
Ksensors.  I get the splash screen which goes away after a moment or
two, and the app is running according to ps, and that's all.  The man
page isn't helping much.  I'm wondering if I need a certain Qt package
installed???