Ksensors

KSensors is a GUI frontend to lm-sensors.

= Get it =

tar xvfz ksensors-0.7.3.tar.gz   cd ksensors-0.7.3/ ./configure && make && make install
 * Download it from http://ksensors.sourceforge.net/
 * unpack it:
 * compile and link it:

= Run it =

ksensors You will then be able to watch the CPU speed changing.
 * Start the program
 * Click on the icon that appears in your panel
 * Right-click on the widget that appears
 * Click "Configure"
 * Chose a thing that interests you, e.g. "System Information" -> CPU Speed
 * Tag "visible" so that it is on

= TroubleShooting =

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! ./configure --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3/lib64/
 * If you get
 * install the development tools of qt as described at installing software
 * if the problem persists, you should watch out if you have an x64 distribution. In this case, you may have the 64-bit-qt-libraries, but not the 32-bit ones. In this case, the following can help:

in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE libraries installed. This will fail. ./configure --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3/lib64/ --prefix=/opt/kde3 --libdir=/opt/kde3/lib64
 * If you get
 * install the development libraries of kde as described at installing software
 * if the problem persist, you should watch out if you have an x64 distribution. In this case, you may have the 64-bit-kde-libraries, but not the 32-bit ones. In this case, the following can help: