Broken on Ubuntu 24.04: No Sensors Enabled For Monitoring

[wparad]

[alexmurray]

Have you tried doing as it suggested?

[wparad]

Which is what us exactly. I don't see anything suggested either in the message or in this repo for what to do. Thin message shows up and that's it.

[alexmurray]

The message says to open the preferences window, have you tried doing that?

[wparad]

How do I "open the preferences" window?

[alexmurray]

Ah ok - sorry I think there was some confusion. I think perhaps there is some issue between whatever desktop environment you are running and what indicator-sensors expects - it assumes you have a desktop which supports application indicators (ie. either GNOME with the https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/ extension installed (or the Ubuntu fork of it - https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator) or KDE - can you please include some more details like how you installed indicator-sensors and what desktop environment you are running? Thanks.

[wparad]

I think I used apt or whatever instructions there were for Ubuntu. I run xfce with minimal support packages for some kde and gnome things, but likely neither of those things that you listed.

[CTimmerman]

I think enabling the CPU sensor would be a sensible default.

[GaryElshaw]

Edit: The application does start, but because there is no onscreen ui indicator, it appears to have crashed. I'd recommend a splash screen with a big arrow pointing north :-)

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Kia ora Alex, i just built from source and there is a crash at launch on Manjaro, too, and the notification does pop up. It appeared to build and install just fine. Here's some more detailed information on my platform. @alexmurray

System Details Report

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• Date generated: 2025-05-11 18:14:55

Hardware Information:

• Hardware Model: (null)
• Memory: 16.0 GiB
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 × 4
• Graphics: GeForce GT 630
• Disk Capacity: 872.2 GB

Software Information:

• Firmware Version: 4.6.5
• OS Name: Manjaro Linux
• OS Build: rolling
• OS Type: 64-bit
• GNOME Version: 48
• Windowing System: X11
• Kernel Version: Linux 6.14.4-1-MANJARO