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  17 <h1>psensor</h1>
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  21 <h2 id="_a_graphical_temperature_monitoring_application">A Graphical Temperature Monitoring Application</h2>
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  23 <g:plusone></g:plusone>
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  25 <p><code>psensor</code> is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.</p>
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  28 <p>It can monitor:</p>
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  31 <ul>
  32 <li>
  33 <p>the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using <a href="http://www.lm-sensors.org/">lm-sensors</a>).</p>
  34 </li>
  35 <li>
  36 <p>the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).</p>
  37 </li>
  38 <li>
  39 <p>the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs (not enabled in Ubuntu PPAs or official
  40 distribution repositories, see the <a href="README.html#_ati_amd_gpu_support">instructions for enabling its support</a>).</p>
  41 </li>
  42 <li>
  43 <p>the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).</p>
  44 </li>
  45 <li>
  46 <p>the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).</p>
  47 </li>
  48 <li>
  49 <p>the CPU usage (since 0.6.2.10 and using Gtop2).</p>
  50 </li>
  51 </ul>
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  55 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-last.png" alt="psensor last">
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  60 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-2011-06-16.png" alt="psensor 2011 06 16">
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  64 <p>The application is designed to be simple and easy to use. The CPU and memory consumption are not significant.</p>
  65 </div>
  66 <div class="paragraph">
  67 <p>Psensor is released under GPLv2 license terms.</p>
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  72 <h2 id="_usage_information">Usage Information</h2>
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  74 <div class="paragraph">
  75 <p>First step is to install <code>lm-sensors</code>.</p>
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  78 <p>For Ubuntu:</p>
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  82 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo apt-get install lm-sensors</code></pre>
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  84 </div>
  85 <div class="paragraph">
  86 <p>Then, starts the detection of your hardware sensors:</p>
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  90 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo sensors-detect</code></pre>
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  92 </div>
  93 <div class="paragraph">
  94 <p>Verify that it works:</p>
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  98 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sensors</code></pre>
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 101 <div class="paragraph">
 102 <p>It should display something like:</p>
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 106 <pre>coretemp-isa-0000
 107 Adapter: ISA adapter
 108 Core 0:      +46.0C  (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
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 110 coretemp-isa-0001
 111 Adapter: ISA adapter
 112 Core 1:      +44.0C  (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
 113
 114 ...</pre>
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 117 <div class="paragraph">
 118 <p>Then you can proceed to the installation of <code>psensor</code>. For Ubuntu and derivatives,
 119  you should look at the <a href="ubuntu.html">Ubuntu support page</a>.</p>
 120 </div>
 121 <div class="paragraph">
 122 <p>And finally launch the <code>psensor</code> executable.</p>
 123 </div>
 124 <div class="paragraph">
 125 <p>More information are available in the <a href="faq.html">Psensor FAQ</a>.</p>
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 130 <h2 id="_source_code">Source Code</h2>
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 135 <p><a href="files">Download psensor</a></p>
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 137 <li>
 138 <p>Get source from the GIT repository:</p>
 139 </li>
 140 </ul>
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 143 <div class="content">
 144 <pre>git clone http://git.wpitchoune.net/psensor.git</pre>
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 146 </div>
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 148 <ul>
 149 <li>
 150 <p><a href="http://git.wpitchoune.net/gitweb?p=psensor.git">Browse source code</a></p>
 151 </li>
 152 </ul>
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 157 <h2 id="_linux_distribution_support">Linux Distribution Support</h2>
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 159 <div class="paragraph">
 160 <p><code>psensor</code> should compile on any modern distribution including <code>GTK+</code>
 161 v3 and <code>lm-sensors</code> which are quite common. For the Linux
 162 distributions still stuck on <code>GTK+</code> v2, the old 0.6.x releases of
 163 <code>psensor</code> can be used.</p>
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 165 <div class="paragraph">
 166 <p>If you have trouble compiling <code>psensor</code> on a specific Linux distribution,
 167 don’t hesitate to report it.</p>
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 169 <div class="paragraph">
 170 <p>Binary packages of <code>psensor</code> are available for few Linux distributions:</p>
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 173 <ul>
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 175 <p>package for Ubuntu is in the official universe repository since version 11.10 (Oneiric)</p>
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 178 <p><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html">package for Debian</a> is in the standard repository since 7.0</p>
 179 </li>
 180 <li>
 181 <p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~jfi/+archive/ubuntu/ppa">PPA for Ubuntu</a></p>
 182 </li>
 183 <li>
 184 <p><a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/psensor">package for OpenSuse</a></p>
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 186 <li>
 187 <p><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/psensor/">package for ArchLinux</a>.</p>
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 194 <h2 id="_misc">Misc</h2>
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 199 <p><a href="ubuntu.html">Psensor on Ubuntu</a></p>
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 202 <p><a href="remote.html">Remote monitoring</a></p>
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 204 <li>
 205 <p><a href="contribute.html">How to contribute to psensor</a></p>
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 207 <li>
 208 <p><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></p>
 209 </li>
 210 </ul>
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 215 <h2 id="_contact">Contact</h2>
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 217 <div class="paragraph">
 218 <p>The Google Group <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&amp;hl=en#!forum/psensor-users">psensor-users</a> can be used for discussion, questions and bug report.</p>
 219 </div>
 220 <div class="paragraph">
 221 <p>For announces or general information subscribe to Psensor <a href="https://plus.google.com/100166747457211594542">Google+ page</a>
 222 or click on:</p>
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 226 <p>Alternatively, you can contact me by e-mail: <a href="mailto:jeanfi@gmail.com">jeanfi@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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