Help identifying widget

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Hello,

While browsing the forum, I came across the “Share your desktop” thread in the Community section; in particular, post 5 (I cannot include links in my posts for some reason, will enclose a copy of the image here):

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Directly to the left of the system tray, there is some type of hardware monitoring widget/plasmoid, I rather like its clean out of the way look; long story short, would anyone be able to identify it, I have looked through the store, but don’t seem to find anything there that matches it?

Thanks.

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hi, welcome.

those appear to just be individual system monitor widgets that were added to the panel next to the system tray.

i keep mine in a separate panel on the left edge of my main monitor.

they can be configured as simple text, or in a wide variety of ways as you can see.
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Thanks.

Ok, but - would you, or anyone else be able to give the names of the specific widgets that were used, then (they do look rather uniform, by the way, if they really are individual ones ), I, for example, have System Monitor Sensor active at the moment, but don’t see an option to configure it to look this way?

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a sensor is a sensor… the system monitor widgets all have the same options.

you just need to try the options that work for you for what you are trying to monitor.

if you just want a text display of the value and a label, then title it how you want and check the show title box

display style: color grid (you could also use pie chart )

then under sensor details, you select the sensor you want to monitor, say cpu1 temp

now you can edit the grid color to be the same as the background color if you want it all one color.

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Well, I suppose the input comes from the same sensors anyway… it was more what the output looked like that I was after. Judging by the date in the image, this should be Plasma 5, not 6 - maybe this is some widget that has not been ported over?

At any rate, thanks for the suggestions given, will have a look at what can be done.

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you can also install other 3rd party monitor widgets that may give you more options than the stock monitor widgets.

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Hmm, any suggestions?

@joserafael In case you are still posting/reading on this forum, I would still be curious what you used, if you would share.

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Looks a bit like Thermal Monitor - KDE Store

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Truth be told, it does - thanks for pointing this out… For some reason, though, I can only get it to display either the temperature or the name of the device (maybe I have made the panel too narrow? :face_with_diagonal_mouth: ) - and, indeed, it only displays temperature - might be nice to have some indicator of the usage levels as well…

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In that case use KVitals - OpenDesktop.org, you won’t get the usage levels from Thermal Monitor

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Exactly, and thanks for the suggestion. :slight_smile: