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18 <h2 id="_a_graphical_temperature_monitoring_application">A Graphical Temperature Monitoring Application</h2>
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21 <p>Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.</p>
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24 <p>It can monitor:</p>
29 <p>the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using <a href="http://www.lm-sensors.org/">lm-sensors</a>).</p>
32 <p>the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).</p>
35 <p>the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs (not enabled in Ubuntu PPAs or official
36 distribution repositories, see the <a href="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/doc/README.html#_ati_amd_gpu_support">instructions for enabling its support</a>).</p>
39 <p>the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).</p>
42 <p>the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).</p>
45 <p>the CPU usage (since 0.6.2.10 and using Gtop2).</p>
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51 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-last.png" alt="psensor last">
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56 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-2011-06-16.png" alt="psensor 2011 06 16">
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60 <p>The application is designed to be simple and easy to use. The CPU and memory consumption are not significant.</p>
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63 <p>Psensor is released under GPLv2 license terms.</p>
68 <h2 id="_usage_information">Usage Information</h2>
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70 <div class="paragraph">
71 <p>First step is to install <code>lm-sensors</code>, for Ubuntu:</p>
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75 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo apt-get install lm-sensors</code></pre>
78 <div class="paragraph">
79 <p>Then, starts the detection of your hardware sensors:</p>
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83 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo sensors-detect</code></pre>
86 <div class="paragraph">
87 <p>Verify that it works:</p>
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91 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sensors</code></pre>
94 <div class="paragraph">
95 <p>It should display something like:</p>
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99 <pre>coretemp-isa-0000
101 Core 0: +46.0C (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
105 Core 1: +44.0C (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
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111 <p>Then you can proceed to the installation of psensor. For Ubuntu and derivatives,
112 you should look at the Ubuntu support page.</p>
114 <div class="paragraph">
115 <p>And finally launch the psensor executable.</p>
117 <div class="paragraph">
118 <p>More information are available in the Psensor FAQ.</p>
123 <h2 id="_source_code">Source Code</h2>
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126 <div class="content">
127 <pre>Download psensor
128 Get source from GIT repository: git clone http://git.wpitchoune.net/psensor.git
129 Browse source code</pre>
135 <h2 id="_linux_distribution_support">Linux Distribution Support</h2>
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137 <div class="paragraph">
138 <p>Psensor should compile on any modern distribution including GTK+ v3 and lm-sensors which are quite common. For Linux Distribution still stuck on GTK+ v2, the old 0.6.x releases of Psensor can be used.</p>
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141 <p>If you have trouble compiling Psensor on a specific Linux distribution, don’t hesitate to report it.</p>
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144 <p>Binary packages of Psensor are available for few Linux distributions:</p>
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148 <pre>Psensor PPA for Ubuntu
149 Psensor is in the official universe repository of Ubuntu since version 11.10 (Oneiric)
150 Psensor packages for Debian, Psensor is in the standard repository of Debian since 7.0.
151 Binary RPM package for OpenSuse: thanks to djs_core for the packaging.
152 Package for ArchLinux
153 Psensor v0.2.6 is installed by default in PartedMagic since version 5.0.</pre>
159 <h2 id="_contact">Contact</h2>
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161 <div class="paragraph">
162 <p>The Google Group psensor-users can be used for discussion, questions and bug report.</p>
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165 <p>For announces or general information subscribe to Psensor Google+ page.</p>
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168 <p>Alternatively, you can contact me by e-mail: <a href="mailto:jeanfi@gmail.com">jeanfi@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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