kima

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Kima - Kicker monitoring applet
This applet monitors various sources such as temperature, frequency and fan speed values in your kicker panel. Kima has a project page on sourceforge and a page on kde-apps too.

Kima

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 (for each CPU and/or commulative for all CPUs)
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 an appropriate package for your distribution or the sources from the URLs above.

Alternatively you could compile from 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).

changelog

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
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
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, Uğur Çetin 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

Kima 0.6.3:

fixes a bug that could crash kima
thanks to Johannes and Peter for debugging and testing

Kima 0.6.2:

support for the GPU thermal sensors of nvidia-settings (provided by the proprietary nVidia GPU card driver tools)
the configuration is remebered even if the applets gets removed from the kicker and later added again (only one instance of Kima is allowed in the kicker)
upgrade note: to have your config persistent Kima needs to be removed from the kicker and added again (restart KDE or killing kicker won't work)
performance improvements:
- ability to disable sources for performance reasons (don't pay for sources you don't use)
- tooltip speed improved by using cached values
- apply preferences immediately
- improved threading mechanism that results in faster source value updates (the source displays the value immediately after fetching)

Kima 0.6.1:

lm_sensors capabilities improved by implementing hwmon support:
i.e. fan and thermal sensors provided by k8temp are now supported
i2c is used as a fall back if hwmon isn't available
thanks to Diego "Flameeyes" Petteno

Kima 0.6:

CPU Info renamed to Kima (Kicker monitoring applet),
uses threads to fetch values from the sensors (thanks to Johannes Schaub),
i8k thermal and fan support for Dell Inspiron and Latitude notebooks added.

CPU Info 0.5.2:

i2c (lm_sensors) fan support added,
ibm-acpi: support for the ibm_acpi-extra-thermal.patch added.

CPU Info 0.5.1:

fan support for the ibm-acpi kernel module added,
omnibook support fixed,

CPU Info 0.5:

0.5 is able to display as many sources as you want,
cpufreq subsystem source is able to handle multiple CPUs,
a "Source" provides a QWidget to display its values (not just a Label, this provides flexibility to do fancy things in future),
the prefs dialog is reworked. Every source has its own prefs dialog which could inherit the more general prefs dialog of the super class.
debian directory cleaned to make it easier for deb packagers (thanks to Manfred Paul)

CPU Info 0.4.3:

Let the user choose the alignment of the sources (thanks to Jocke Andersson)

CPU Info 0.4.2:

support for the thermal sensors of the IBM Hard Drive Active Protection System (HDAPS) driver added. The corresponding kernel module is called hdaps.
rounds frequencies more intelligent (i.e. 1333 MHz to 1.3 GHz but 860 MHz not to 900 MHz).

CPU Info 0.4.1:

support for showing the degrees in Fahrenheit added (switch to Imperial system per kcontrol: "Regional & Accessibility"->"Country/Region & Language"->"Other")
cpufreq frequency source rounds its value to save space,
fixes a resize bug that prevents the applet from being relayouted if the user changed the prefs,

CPU Info 0.4:

cpufreqd control module added (thanks to Valentine Sinitsyn),
support for iBook G4 CPU and GPU thermal zones added (thanks to Flavio Castelli),
initial i2c (lm_sensors) thermal support added,
amount of resize events minimized (the applet is only resized if the width is greater than a previous cached value),

CPU Info 0.3.1:

new layout manager implemented which is able to handle small kicker panels,

CPU Info 0.3:

ibm-acpi support added (http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net),
proc frequency source: rounded value to save space,
tooltip shows the selected source italic,
extended context menu to let the user choose different sources.

CPU Info 0.2:

support for multiple sources added,
the source can now be choosen by the user,
omnibook support added (http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke),
tool tip added that shows the values of all sensors,

CPU Info 0.1:

supports the last sensor of the Linux ACPI Thermal Zone Driver,
supports the Linux kernel cpufreq subsystem,
supports the Linux /proc/cpuinfo interface (if cpufreq is not available),
font type and color configuration.

development

Visit our project page at sourceforge
How to obtain?

svn checkout https://kima.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kima/trunk/ kima
cd kima/
make -f Makefile.cvs
./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix)
make
su -c 'make install' # maybe: sudo make install
appletproxy `kde-config --prefix`/share/apps/kicker/applets/kima.desktop
dcop kicker Panel restart

Debian/Ubuntu packagers:
There is a debian dir for Kima at https://kima.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kima/trunk/debian/

faq

Q: Kima shows the thermal values in Fahrenheit/Celsius where can I adjust that?
A: You can switch to metric/imperial system via kcontrol: "Regional & Accessibility"->"Country/Region & Language"->"Other"->"Measure system"->"Metric"/"Imperial" and restart the applet (dcop kicker Panel restart).
Q: Where does Kima stores its preferences?
A: Take a look at ~/.kde/share/config/libkimarc.
Q: Kima shows only a few Sources. Why is my supported Source not visible?
A: Please make sure the kernel module is loaded before Kima starts. Otherwise the source can't be detected.
Q: Are there plans on intigrating any other sensors into Kima? A: Kima is not limited to temperatures, frequency and fan speed. As the changelog suggests Kima adds more and more sensors that hopefully evolves too in the future.

contact

Authors:

Ken Werner ken_dot_werner_at_web_dot_de
Johannes Schaub schaub-johannes_at_web_dot_de
Valentine Sinitsyn (cpufreqd control module)

Thanks to:

Franziska Simmank (website)
Manfred Paul (debian support)
Rainer Dorsch (debian support)
Johannes Schaub (threading)
Flavio Castelli (iBook G4 support)
Jocke Andersson (extended preferences)
Raoul Martin
Donnie Bhayangkara
Gonzalo Nemmi
Mariusz Ciesla
Mark Rosenstand
Santiago Bruno
Dark Apostrophe
Sascha Hoogen
Peter Avramucz
Oskar Ellström
Uğur Çetin
Vadim Likhota