Psensor

A Graphical Temperature Monitor

Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.

It can monitor:

  • the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors).
  • the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
  • the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs (requires compilation using libatiadlxx, support not enabled in Ubuntu PPAs).
  • 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).

The version 0.5.1 introduces hot temperature alerts using desktop notification and Application Indicator.

The application is designed to be simple and easy to use. The CPU and memory consumption are not significant.

The last stable version is 0.7.0.5.

The last development version is 0.8.0.1.

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 psensor executable.

More information are available in the Psensor FAQ.

Source Code

Distribution Packages

Binary packages of Psensor are available for few Linux distributions:

Linux Distribution Support

Psensor should compile on any modern distribution.

If you have trouble compiling Psensor on a specific Linux distribution, don’t hesitate to report it.

The list of Linux Distribution which is known to be supported:

  • ArchLinux
  • Debian 5.0.6 Lenny and 6 Squeeze
  • Fedora 13
  • Mandriva 2010.1
  • OpenSuse 11.2 and 11.3
  • Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10
  • PartedMagic v5.0-5.7: Psensor v0.2.6
  • PartedMagic v5.8: Psensor v0.4.4
  • TinyCore

Contact

The Google Group psensor-users can be used for discussion, questions and bug report.

For announces or general information subscribe to Psensor Google+ page.

Alternatively, you can contact me by e-mail: jeanfi@gmail.com.