The GPU sensor i’m trying to select, obviously too long and the plus is off the page and the “+” is un-selectable.
So i’m going to ask where is the file to edit that says “hey use gpu/gpu0/temperature” because i already have a blank GPU entry pointing to “gpu/gpu1/temperature” , it broke about the same time of the other issue with missing GPU sensor entries.
Might be an idea to list a few options to go about editing and adding sensors if possible, because this is just absurd so will absolutely happen again in a few years.
Under ~/.local/share/plasma-systemmonitor there is a file for each page in the system monitor.
I haven’t tried editing these by hand, but the format isn’t that intimidating. With care you could probably get your additional sensor in. Obviously at your own risk, make a backup before, etc etc.
System Monitor doesn’t directly control the names here, but it would be worth a bug report to ask for better behaviour here. For example, ensuring that the “Add” button never gets hidden by a long name, and maybe an option to display the “short” names (which are currently in the tooltip, as you show) instead of the long names.
Thank you for your detailed answer and it’s fun to know editing it there is possible, but this issue i’m having is for Thermal Monitor, the widget.
I see system monitor the names of things are their own button, which i’d much prefer to be dealing with.
I do see ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.olib.thermalmonitor/ , but unless i’m completely missing something that’s all the program files and no ‘user’ files
you should be able to navigate the sensor selection dialog using the arrow keys and hit enter to select a sensor if you can’t select it with the mouse, for some reason.
you can also meta+rightclick to drag the dialog window bigger if you need to.
but if you want to try manually editing the dotfile you can try this to find which file to edit.
to find out where the widget is saving the sensor info you can run this code in a terminal window, and then make a change to the widget… be sure to hit Apply, then OK then exit the configuration window to ensure it writes to the file.
Learning all fun things today, that meta+rightclick will be handy, but no luck selecting the sensor with the arrow keys or resizing the dialog window that pops up after the settings, the settings window resizes but not the box i’m having issues with.
what distro are you using that does not allow navigation and selection from the keyboard in dialog boxes?
Opensuse tumbleweed, lot of things breaking recently mind you, so i really should look for something else. Just seemed the most compatible and easiest distro for me when i jumped to Linux.
but this whole thing could well be a me issue, enough knowledge to tamper and possibly break things unknowingly, but not enough to fix or understand the cause of issues.
the easiest troubleshooting step is always to create a new user and then see if the same issue persists.
that tells you if it’s the system that’s borked or just your user profile.
then you can takes steps to isolate the problem config file.
EDIT: i just called up a session on disrosea.com and added a monitor to the desktop… then going into configure via the context menu i was able to navigate the list of sensors and select one using the keyboard… so it’s something with your system
Figured it has been a week, and an update so did try keyboard navigation again. the aforementioned arrows didn’t work but something made me recall holding Tab like finding selectable buttons on old flash games, which let me cycle down the list, enter didn’t allow me to confirm the selection but spacebar did.
EDIT: Also good shout, will absolutely make a new user, more is probably borked (configured exacting my needs) than i realise.
