Ubuntu Tips (beta)

Power users are often concerned with making sure the components in their machines are running at appropriate temperatures. An unusual rise in the temperature of a CPU, for example, could indicate a poorly attached fan or generally suboptimal cooling configuration. This tip shows you how to add CPU temperature displays (and potentially more) to you Gnome desktop panel.

For better or for worse, many of us have become accustomed to the 6x13 font that has been the default bitmap font for xterm for many years.

Newer terminal programs like gnome-terminal give us updated configuration GUIs, as well as useful features like profiles and ability to directly click on URLs. But because of the font configuration mess on Ubuntu, it's impossible, with default settings, to get gnome terminal to use the same 6x13 font. The instructions below illustrate how to fix this situation (aside from just using xterm).