ksim-3.5.4 is installed and is in my kde menu under system. However it won't start from there. It seems there is no executable for it. Re-emerging did not help. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1_pre5-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/amd64-hardened, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Last Sync: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -ggdb1" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -ggdb1" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LC_ALL="nl_NL@euro.UTF-8" LINGUAS="nl en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 canna cdr cjk cli crypt cups dbus dga directfb divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fbcon firefox foomaticdb fortran freewnn ftp gif ginac gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardened icq ieee1394 imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux ldap libcaca libwww linguas_en linguas_nl lzw lzw-tiff mad mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mule ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl oscar pam pcre pdflib perl php png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session speex spell spl ssl svg tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userland_GNU v4l vcd video_cards_ati video_cards_fbdev video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa videos vorbis wmf xine xmms xorg xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Reopen w/ 'equery f ksim' output.
Someone told me to start it from the panel. Right-click panel and choose add new panel. This does work. [ Searching for packages matching ksim... ] * Contents of kde-base/ksim-3.5.4: /usr /usr/kde /usr/kde/3.5 /usr/kde/3.5/include /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/chart.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/common.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/ksimconfig.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/label.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/led.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/pluginglobal.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/pluginloader.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/pluginmodule.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/progress.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/themeloader.h /usr/kde/3.5/include/ksim/themetypes.h /usr/kde/3.5/lib64 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_cpu.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_cpu.so /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_disk.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_disk.so /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_filesystem.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_filesystem.so /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_net.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_net.so /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_panelextension.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_panelextension.so /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_sensors.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_sensors.so /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libksimcore.la /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libksimcore.so -> libksimcore.so.1.0.0 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libksimcore.so.1 -> libksimcore.so.1.0.0 /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libksimcore.so.1.0.0 /usr/kde/3.5/share /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/ksim.desktop /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kicker /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kicker/extensions /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kicker/extensions/ksim.desktop /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/monitors /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/monitors/DFree.desktop /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/monitors/Lm_sensors.desktop /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/monitors/Net.desktop /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/monitors/cpu.desktop /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/monitors/disk.desktop /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/pics /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/pics/clock.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/pics/uptime.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/bg_chart.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/bg_grid.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/bg_meter.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/bg_panel.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/frame_bottom.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/frame_left.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/frame_right.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/frame_top.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/gkrellmrc /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/gkrellmrc_ksim /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/host /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/host/bg_meter.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/krell_meter.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/krell_panel.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/krell_slider.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/mail /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/mail/decal_mail.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/mail/krell_mail.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/mail/krell_mail_daemon.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/net /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/ksim/themes/ksim/net/decal_net_leds.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/ksim_panelextensionrc /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML/en /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML/en/ksim /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML/en/ksim/common -> /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML/en/common /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML/en/ksim/index.cache.bz2 /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML/en/ksim/index.docbook /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/ksim-3.5.4 /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/ksim-3.5.4/AUTHORS.gz /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/ksim-3.5.4/README.gz /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16 /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/ksim.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/devices /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/devices/ksim_cpu.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32 /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/ksim.png /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/48x48 /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/48x48/apps /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/crystalsvg/48x48/apps/ksim.png /usr/lib /usr/lib/debug /usr/lib/debug/usr /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5 /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5/lib64 /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3 /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_cpu.so.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_disk.so.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_filesystem.so.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_net.so.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_panelextension.so.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/ksim_sensors.so.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libksimcore.so.1.0.0.debug /usr/share /usr/share/doc
Right click on kicker -> add control panel extension -> ksim. The bug is that there is an application desktop entry. Fixed in ksim-3.5.4-r1.