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  18 <h1>psensor</h1>
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  22 <h2 id="_a_graphical_temperature_monitoring_application">A Graphical Temperature Monitoring Application</h2>
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  27 <p><code>psensor</code> is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.</p>
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  29 <div class="paragraph">
  30 <p>It can monitor:</p>
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  32 <div class="ulist">
  33 <ul>
  34 <li>
  35 <p>the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using <a href="http://www.lm-sensors.org/">lm-sensors</a>).</p>
  36 </li>
  37 <li>
  38 <p>the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).</p>
  39 </li>
  40 <li>
  41 <p>the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs (not enabled in official
  42 distribution repositories, see the <a href="README.html#_ati_amd_gpu_support">instructions for enabling its support</a>).</p>
  43 </li>
  44 <li>
  45 <p>the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).</p>
  46 </li>
  47 <li>
  48 <p>the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).</p>
  49 </li>
  50 <li>
  51 <p>the CPU usage (since 0.6.2.10 and using Gtop2).</p>
  52 </li>
  53 </ul>
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  57 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-last.png" alt="psensor last">
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  62 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-2011-06-16.png" alt="psensor 2011 06 16">
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  66 <p>The application is designed to be simple and easy to use. The CPU and memory consumption are not significant.</p>
  67 </div>
  68 <div class="paragraph">
  69 <p>Psensor is released under GPLv2 license terms.</p>
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  74 <h2 id="_usage_information">Usage Information</h2>
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  76 <div class="paragraph">
  77 <p>First step is to install <code>lm-sensors</code>.</p>
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  80 <p>For Ubuntu:</p>
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  84 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo apt-get install lm-sensors</code></pre>
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  87 <div class="paragraph">
  88 <p>Then, starts the detection of your hardware sensors:</p>
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  92 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo sensors-detect</code></pre>
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  95 <div class="paragraph">
  96 <p>Verify that it works:</p>
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 100 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sensors</code></pre>
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 103 <div class="paragraph">
 104 <p>It should display something like:</p>
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 108 <pre>coretemp-isa-0000
 109 Adapter: ISA adapter
 110 Core 0:      +46.0C  (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
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 112 coretemp-isa-0001
 113 Adapter: ISA adapter
 114 Core 1:      +44.0C  (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
 115
 116 ...</pre>
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 120 <p>Then you can proceed to the installation of <code>psensor</code>. For Ubuntu and derivatives,
 121  you should look at the <a href="ubuntu.html">Ubuntu support page</a>.</p>
 122 </div>
 123 <div class="paragraph">
 124 <p>And finally launch the <code>psensor</code> executable.</p>
 125 </div>
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 127 <p>More information are available in the <a href="faq.html">Psensor FAQ</a>.</p>
 128 </div>
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 132 <h2 id="_source_code">Source Code</h2>
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 135 <ul>
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 137 <p><a href="files">Download psensor</a></p>
 138 </li>
 139 <li>
 140 <p>Get source from the GIT repository:</p>
 141 </li>
 142 </ul>
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 145 <div class="content">
 146 <pre>git clone https://gitlab.com/jeanfi/psensor.git</pre>
 147 </div>
 148 </div>
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 150 <ul>
 151 <li>
 152 <p><a href="https://gitlab.com/jeanfi/psensor/tree/master">Browse source code</a></p>
 153 </li>
 154 </ul>
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 159 <h2 id="_linux_distribution_support">Linux Distribution Support</h2>
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 161 <div class="paragraph">
 162 <p><code>psensor</code> should compile on any modern distribution including <code>GTK+</code>
 163 v3 and <code>lm-sensors</code> which are quite common. For the Linux
 164 distributions still stuck on <code>GTK+</code> v2, the old 0.6.x releases of
 165 <code>psensor</code> can be used.</p>
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 167 <div class="paragraph">
 168 <p>If you have trouble compiling <code>psensor</code> on a specific Linux distribution,
 169 don’t hesitate to report it.</p>
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 171 <div class="paragraph">
 172 <p>Binary packages of <code>psensor</code> are available for few Linux distributions:</p>
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 175 <ul>
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 177 <p>package for Ubuntu is in the official universe repository since version 11.10 (Oneiric)</p>
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 179 <li>
 180 <p><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html">package for Debian</a> is in the standard repository since 7.0</p>
 181 </li>
 182 <li>
 183 <p><a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/psensor">package for OpenSuse</a></p>
 184 </li>
 185 <li>
 186 <p><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/psensor/">package for ArchLinux</a>.</p>
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 193 <h2 id="_misc">Misc</h2>
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 198 <p><a href="ubuntu.html">Psensor on Ubuntu</a></p>
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 201 <p><a href="remote.html">Remote monitoring</a></p>
 202 </li>
 203 <li>
 204 <p><a href="contribute.html">How to contribute to psensor</a></p>
 205 </li>
 206 <li>
 207 <p><a href="build_debian_pkg.html">How to build the debian package of psensor</a></p>
 208 </li>
 209 <li>
 210 <p><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></p>
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 217 <h2 id="_contact">Contact</h2>
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 219 <div class="paragraph">
 220 <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>
 221 </div>
 222 <div class="paragraph">
 223 <p>For announces or general information:</p>
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 228 <p>subscribe to Psensor <a href="https://plus.google.com/100166747457211594542">Google+ page</a>
 229 or click on:</p>
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 242 <p>Alternatively, you can contact me by e-mail: <a href="mailto:jeanfi@gmail.com">jeanfi@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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