Ok. ChatGPT just told me that gkrellm uses nVidia's XNVCtrl Xserver extension tp display the temperature. I'm not sure how this extension gets added to the Xserver. Either by loading nVidia's glx extension or the X driver itself. But both are in nvidia-gl-G06. /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglxserver_nvidia.so.525.89.02 /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so You can check that with xdpyinfo. One of the extension will be called 'XNVCtrl' or similar. So of course after installing nvidia-gl-G06 you also need to restart the Xserver.