Laptop Temperature Monitor is a little applet for the GNOME desktop that shows the temperature of your laptop CPU on screen. You can log temperatures to a file as well.

Laptop Temperature Monitor project is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Installation

tar xzf laptoptemp-0.2.tar.gz
$ cd laptoptemp-0.2
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Requirements:

· python
· python-gnome
· python-gnome-extras

What's New in This Release:

· Added support for monitoring Harddisk temperatures (using hddtemp)
· Added support for monitoring Linux kernel i2c sensor modules
· Added support for selecting which sensor to monitor (if several available)
· Added italian translation, thanks to Stefano Maggiolo
· Added dutch translation, thanks to Adriaan Peeters
· Fixed bugs on i8k and ibm_acpi modules, and several minor bugs