lmsensors,an intel active monitor alternative

If you have an Intel Moterboard,there is a program in Windows called Intel Active Monitor that displays current temperature of the cabinet.It is also available in other motherboards like in MSI, but with its own application.


lmsensors are specific libraries for accessing sensors on the computer.Sensors are mostly located in CPU and some new motherboards.If a hard disk is SMART enabled,then its temperature can be retrieved too.


To get it working,download lmsensors from your Linux distribution repositories and the initiate 'sudo sensors' without quotes in terminal.It will ask for different questions step by step.Just type "y" and press enter between each questions.


lmsensors also adds all the recognised modules to the boot flag.Restart the computer,and if you use KDE,then add Temperature Monitor widget and start getting temperatures.


If you use Gnome,there is a similar applet called "GNOME Sensors Applet".

Get Back Firefox Button in Linux

I updated my Firefox to the latest version and was eager to see it working hard.Everything was superior but the Firefox button was missing.
However there is an easy way to get it back.Just right click on free space near to menu bar and untick menu bar.Voila,your button is back.
Happy surfing.

Finding files via Linux terminal

Easy way to find files in terminal is to issue the command:


sudo find / -name {filename with/without wildcards}


For example:


sudo find / -name *.rpm


will result the entire rpm files in / directory to be listed with full path.
Happy searching.

Restoring default Gnome settings

After messing up with Gnome settings, I couldn't find a way to restore them easily without creating a new account.
But however an easy approach is to delete (.gnome or .gnome2) and .gconf folders located in /home/{user}


Happy tweaking and messing with Gnome.