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@@ -680,10 +680,45 @@ column (named <code>Enabled</code> or <code>Graph</code> depending on the Psenso
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Since the version 1.0.1, Psensor is no more started automaticaly by default.</p></div>\r
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Open the <code>Preferences</code> window, select the <code>Startup</code> tab and switch on\r
 the option <code>Launch on session startup</code>.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This feature is requiring that the Desktop Environment supports the\r
+<a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html">XDG\r
+specification</a>.</p></div>\r
 </div>\r
 </div>\r
 <div class="sect1">\r
-<h2 id="S_SimilarSoft">16. Is there any other similar softwares?</h2>\r
+<h2 id="S_disk">16. How to monitor the temperature of a disk?</h2>\r
+<div class="sectionbody">\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>By default, Psensor is using <code>hddtemp</code> to retrieve the temperature of\r
+the disks.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>If <code>hddtemp</code> is installed but no disk temperature is reported, check\r
+that the daemon is running by using for example the command <code>ps\r
+-eaf|grep hddtemp</code>.\r
+It should output something like:</p></div>\r
+<div class="listingblock">\r
+<div class="content">\r
+<pre><code>root      1433     1  0 May28 ?        00:00:21 /usr/sbin/hddtemp -d -l 127.0.0.1 -p 7634 -s | /dev/sdb</code></pre>\r
+</div></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Depending on the Linux distribution, the installation of the <code>hddtemp</code>\r
+package does not enable the hddtemp daemon automaticaly.</p></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>In this case, edit the file <code>/etc/default/hddtemp</code> and set\r
+<code>RUN_DAEMON</code> to <code>"true"</code> like in the following example:</p></div>\r
+<div class="listingblock">\r
+<div class="content">\r
+<pre><code># hddtemp network daemon switch. If set to true, hddtemp will listen\r
+# for incoming connections.\r
+RUN_DAEMON="true"</code></pre>\r
+</div></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>For Debian/Ubuntu, you can use</p></div>\r
+<div class="listingblock">\r
+<div class="content">\r
+<pre><code>dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp</code></pre>\r
+</div></div>\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>and reply <code>yes</code> when asked whether hddtemp daemon must be\r
+run during the startup.</p></div>\r
+</div>\r
+</div>\r
+<div class="sect1">\r
+<h2 id="S_SimilarSoft">17. Is there any other similar softwares?</h2>\r
 <div class="sectionbody">\r
 <div class="paragraph"><p>Here is a list of few well-known sensors monitoring softwares:</p></div>\r
 <div class="ulist"><ul>\r
@@ -715,7 +750,7 @@ more general, but can be configured to display sensors
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-Last updated 2014-06-02 08:44:54 CEST\r
+Last updated 2014-06-04 14:07:24 CEST\r
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