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So I live in California and it is really hot so I worry about my RPI temperatures. I want a really easy way to check right now I have used the GNU Nano program to make a bash alias so when I type temp in the LX Terminal I get my temperature. But I want something faster so I want to make a shortcut so I click it on the desktop and it runs the command in LX Terminal.

Thanks!

piggykid1
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You can use Conky1 for temperature and other monitoring issues. With Conky, you can get temperature, disk usage, memory consumption, bandwidth etc also it works always on your desktop so you don't have to click to see statistics.

Sample screenshot from Conky official site :

http://conky.sourceforge.net/conky.png

Mickaël Le Baillif
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gurcanozturk
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Just right-click on your desktop and select Create New Shortcut from the popup menu:

create new shortcut

Then, you can input the name of the shortcut you want, the command, and the tooltip, as well as change the logo (not to mention more advanced features.) You'd probably want to check the Runs in Terminal Emulator option:

lxshortcut

In your case you would want it to look somewhat like this:

check the temperature - lxshortcut

Hope this helps you! If having the command as simply temp doesn't work, comment back here and I'll see if I can't figure out why!

Best of luck!

RPiAwesomeness
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