How do you display cpu temperature?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 20:04 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> On 10/16/2009 07:57 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> How do I display cpu temperature on my desktop?
> >>      
> > There is a nice system information plasmoid that shows
> > this, fan speed, etc.
> >
> >    
> First of all, maybe he's not usin KDE. Second , if the kernel doesn't 
> know how to read temp data from hardware, how do you suppose that this 
> wonder plasmoid will? Think about it. ;)

If he hasn't run sensors-detect, the magic file will not be there, as
several people have noted.

Unfortunately the question is phrased as one of displaying the
tmeperature, not of getting the sensors to work, so some people (myself
included) answered that part and ignored the other and more important
part.

poc