A Graphical Temperature Monitoring Application
psensor
is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.
It can monitor:
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the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors).
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the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
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the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs (not enabled in Ubuntu PPAs or official distribution repositories, see the instructions for enabling its support).
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the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).
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the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
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the CPU usage (since 0.6.2.10 and using Gtop2).
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:
sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
Then, starts the detection of your hardware sensors:
sudo sensors-detect
Verify that it works:
sensors
It should display something like:
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) ...
Then you can proceed to the installation of psensor
. For Ubuntu and derivatives,
you should look at the Ubuntu support page.
And finally launch the psensor
executable.
More information are available in the Psensor FAQ.
Source Code
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Get source from the GIT repository:
git clone http://git.wpitchoune.net/psensor.git
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:
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package for Ubuntu is in the official universe repository since version 11.10 (Oneiric)
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package for Debian is in the standard repository since 7.0
Misc
Contact
The Google Group psensor-users can be used for discussion, questions and bug report.
For announces or general information:
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subscribe to Psensor Google+ page or click on:
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suscribe to the RSS feed.
Alternatively, you can contact me by e-mail: jeanfi@gmail.com.