Ksensors

KSensors is a GUI frontend to lm-sensors.

Get it

• Download it from http://ksensors.sourceforge.net/
• unpack it:

tar xvfz ksensors-0.7.3.tar.gz   

• compile and link it:

cd ksensors-0.7.3/
./configure && make && make install

Run it

• Start the program

ksensors

• 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

You will then be able to watch the CPU speed changing.

TroubleShooting

• If you get

checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!

• • 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:

./configure --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3/lib64/

• If you get

in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE libraries installed. This will fail.

• • 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:

./configure --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib/qt3/lib64/ --prefix=/opt/kde3 --libdir=/opt/kde3/lib64