Ksysguard finds by itself most sensors on each machine, but some may be missed, not included or manually generated by the user. It'd be nice if ksysguard added the ability to manually choose a file to monitor, either by reading a number to display in one of the standard plots (e.g. line graphs) or by just displaying the content of the file. For example, if at all times I want to plot the current that goes through my battery, I'd like to show the content of the file: /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/current_now Maybe even having the ability to multiply by a constant would be nice (e.g. current is usually given in microAmperes). Another case is that in which I want to monitor a taxt file generated by e.g. a daemon, and I'd like ksysguard to show it in a tab side by side with e.g. disk I/O. In this case this is a simple file monitor implementation. Reproducible: Always
Confirmed. Note that ksysguard has an lmsensors interface, so via this interface it is already possible to track a lot of hardware sensors. (In theory at leat, because power sensors are currently not supported in ksysguard, see bug 302667)
ksysguard is no longer maintained, in Plasma 6 there is the Plasma system monitor for this task. If your wish is still valid for the Plasma 6 replacement, please re-open and we can move this bug to the new product, thanks!