= psensor
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== A Graphical Temperature Monitoring Application
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`psensor` is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.
It can monitor:
- the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using http://www.lm-sensors.org/[lm-sensors]).
- the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
- the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs (not enabled in Ubuntu PPAs or official
distribution repositories, see the link:README.html#_ati_amd_gpu_support[instructions for enabling its support]).
- the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).
- the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
- the CPU usage (since 0.6.2.10 and using Gtop2).
image::http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-last.png[]
image::http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-2011-06-16.png[]
The application is designed to be simple and easy to use. The CPU and memory consumption are not significant.
Psensor is released under GPLv2 license terms.
== Usage Information
First step is to install `lm-sensors`.
For Ubuntu:
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sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
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Then, starts the detection of your hardware sensors:
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sudo sensors-detect
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Verify that it works:
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sensors
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It should display something like:
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coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +46.0C (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1: +44.0C (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
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Then you can proceed to the installation of `psensor`. For Ubuntu and derivatives,
you should look at the link:ubuntu.html[Ubuntu support page].
And finally launch the `psensor` executable.
More information are available in the link:faq.html[Psensor FAQ].
== Source Code
* link:files[Download psensor]
* Get source from the GIT repository:
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git clone http://git.wpitchoune.net/psensor.git
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* link:http://git.wpitchoune.net/gitweb?p=psensor.git[Browse source code]
== Linux Distribution Support
`psensor` should compile on any modern distribution including `GTK+`
v3 and `lm-sensors` which are quite common. For the Linux
distributions still stuck on `GTK+` v2, the old 0.6.x releases of
`psensor` can be used.
If you have trouble compiling `psensor` on a specific Linux distribution,
don’t hesitate to report it.
Binary packages of `psensor` are available for few Linux distributions:
* package for Ubuntu is in the official universe repository since version 11.10 (Oneiric)
* http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html[package for Debian] is in the standard repository since 7.0
* https://launchpad.net/~jfi/+archive/ubuntu/ppa[PPA for Ubuntu]
* http://software.opensuse.org/package/psensor[package for OpenSuse]
* https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/psensor/[package for ArchLinux].
== Misc
* link:ubuntu.html[Psensor on Ubuntu]
* link:remote.html[Remote monitoring]
* link:contribute.html[How to contribute to psensor]
* link:faq.html[FAQ]
== Contact
The Google Group https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!forum/psensor-users[psensor-users] can be used for discussion, questions and bug report.
For announces or general information subscribe to Psensor https://plus.google.com/100166747457211594542[Google+ page]
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Alternatively, you can contact me by e-mail: jeanfi@gmail.com.