diff -Naur sensors-applet-3.0.0.orig/sensors-applet/sensors-applet.c sensors-applet-3.0.0/sensors-applet/sensors-applet.c
--- sensors-applet-3.0.0.orig/sensors-applet/sensors-applet.c	2011-11-03 12:33:36.000000000 +0100
+++ sensors-applet-3.0.0/sensors-applet/sensors-applet.c	2013-04-28 20:08:31.002620583 +0200
@@ -641,122 +641,8 @@
         /* get the first active sensor */
         first_sensor = (ActiveSensor *)sensors_applet->active_sensors->data;
 
-        switch (display_mode) {
-        case DISPLAY_VALUE:
-                gtk_widget_size_request(GTK_WIDGET(first_sensor->value),
-                                        &req);
-                value_width = req.width + COLUMN_SPACING;
-                value_height = req.height + ROW_SPACING;
+        num_sensors_per_group = 1;
 
-                /* make sure all widths and heights are non zero,
-                 * otherwise will get a divide by zero exception below
-                 * - is a non critical error since can happen when
-                 * elements first added to list, so simply return - is
-                 * not a programming error */
-                if (value_width == 0 && value_height == 0) {
-                        return;
-                }
-
-                num_sensors_per_group = (sensors_applet->size / 
-                                         (horizontal ? value_height : 
-                                          value_width));
-                break;
-
-        case DISPLAY_LABEL_WITH_VALUE:
-                /* even though we end up packing the event boxes into the
-                 * panel, these dont give back request sizes, so need to ask
-                 * widgets directly */
-                gtk_widget_size_request(GTK_WIDGET(first_sensor->value),
-                                        &req);
-                value_width = req.width + COLUMN_SPACING;
-                value_height = req.height + ROW_SPACING;
-
-                gtk_widget_size_request(GTK_WIDGET(first_sensor->label),
-                                        &req);
-                label_width = req.width + COLUMN_SPACING;
-                label_height = req.height + ROW_SPACING;
-        
-                /* make sure all widths and heights are non zero, otherwise
-                 * will get a divide by zero exception below 
-                 * - is a non critical error since can happen when
-                 * elements first added to list, so simply return - is
-                 * not a programming error */
-                if (!(label_width && label_height &&
-                      value_width && value_height)) {
-                        return;
-                }
-
-                switch (layout_mode) {
-                case VALUE_BESIDE_LABEL:
-                        num_sensors_per_group = (sensors_applet->size / 
-                                                 (horizontal ? MAX(label_height, value_height) : 
-                                                  (label_width + value_width)));
-                        break;
-                case VALUE_BELOW_LABEL:
-                        num_sensors_per_group = (sensors_applet->size / 
-                                                 (horizontal ? (label_height + value_height) : 
-                                                  MAX(label_width, value_width)));
-
-
-                        break;
-                }
-                break;
-
-        case DISPLAY_ICON_WITH_VALUE:
-                gtk_widget_size_request(GTK_WIDGET(first_sensor->value),
-                                        &req);
-                value_width = req.width + COLUMN_SPACING;
-                value_height = req.height + ROW_SPACING;
-
-                gtk_widget_size_request(GTK_WIDGET(first_sensor->icon),
-                                        &req);
-                icon_width = req.width + COLUMN_SPACING;
-                icon_height = req.height + ROW_SPACING;
-                
-                //watch out if num_sensors_per_group is correctly computed
-		//while icon_height is 0
-                if (!(icon_width &&
-                      value_width && value_height)) {
-                        return;
-                }
-
-                
-                switch (layout_mode) {
-                case VALUE_BESIDE_LABEL:
-                        num_sensors_per_group = (sensors_applet->size / 
-                                                 (horizontal ? MAX(icon_height, value_height) : 
-                                                  (icon_width + value_width)));
-                        break;
-                case VALUE_BELOW_LABEL:
-                        num_sensors_per_group = (sensors_applet->size / 
-                                                 (horizontal ? (icon_height + value_height) : 
-                                                  MAX(icon_width, value_width)));
-
-
-                        break;
-                }
-                break;
-
-        case DISPLAY_ICON:
-                gtk_widget_size_request(GTK_WIDGET(first_sensor->icon),
-                                        &req);
-                icon_width = req.width + COLUMN_SPACING;
-                icon_height = req.height + ROW_SPACING;
-                if (!(icon_width && icon_height)) {
-                        return;
-                }
-
-                num_sensors_per_group = (sensors_applet->size / 
-                                         (horizontal ? icon_height : 
-                                          icon_width));
-                break;
-
-        case DISPLAY_GRAPH:
-                /* only show graphs in a line like System Monitor
-                 * applet */
-                num_sensors_per_group = 1;
-                break;
-        }
         /* ensure always atleast 1 sensor per group */
         if (num_sensors_per_group < 1) {
                 /* force a better layout */