Gnome goodies: add hardware sensor in panel. add stock indicator in the panel.

Today we will add two more applets to the gnome panel. You might want to look into the past article about gnome applets that were configured before. Okay, let's start by installing an applet that will show hardware temperature.

There is a nice package, psensor and it can be install as easy as

$ sudo apt-get install psensor
$ psensor

So just launch the application from the terminal, then see the screenshot below.



On the left, I have configured three temperature to be plotted. Because hardware in different computer are different, so you can enable plotting for different hardware. On the right, it is the psensor preferences, and I have enabled checkbox for Launch on session startup and Hide window on startup.

Next, we will install a stock applet as a favor for a friend. Because in debian, this is not available and now we will download from ubuntu repository. Point your browser to https://launchpad.net/~ce3a/+archive/ubuntu/indicator-stocks/+packages and download latest version of indicator-stocks. As of this writing, I'm installing indicator-stocks_0.2.4-0ubuntu1_amd64

user@localhost:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i indicator-stocks_0.2.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package indicator-stocks.
(Reading database ... 321688 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack indicator-stocks_0.2.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking indicator-stocks (0.2.4-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of indicator-stocks:
 indicator-stocks depends on libappindicator0.1-cil; however:
  Package libappindicator0.1-cil is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package indicator-stocks (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.57) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 indicator-stocks

As you can read above, there is a dependency problem during installing indicator-stocks. So just use apt-get install for the remaining package. It should be simple process to resolved that using apt. So it is finally installed, check the screenshot below. You can configured a few symbols, it is from finance.yahoo.com.



That's it, from the past and in this articles, I hope your desktop should present as much information as possible.