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20 <h2 id="_a_graphical_temperature_monitoring_application">A Graphical Temperature Monitoring Application</h2>
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23 <p><code>psensor</code> is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.</p>
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26 <p>It can monitor:</p>
31 <p>the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using <a href="http://www.lm-sensors.org/">lm-sensors</a>).</p>
34 <p>the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).</p>
37 <p>the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs (not enabled in Ubuntu PPAs or official
38 distribution repositories, see the <a href="README.html#_ati_amd_gpu_support">instructions for enabling its support</a>).</p>
41 <p>the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).</p>
44 <p>the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).</p>
47 <p>the CPU usage (since 0.6.2.10 and using Gtop2).</p>
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53 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-last.png" alt="psensor last">
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58 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-2011-06-16.png" alt="psensor 2011 06 16">
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62 <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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65 <p>Psensor is released under GPLv2 license terms.</p>
70 <h2 id="_usage_information">Usage Information</h2>
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72 <div class="paragraph">
73 <p>First step is to install <code>lm-sensors</code>.</p>
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80 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo apt-get install lm-sensors</code></pre>
83 <div class="paragraph">
84 <p>Then, starts the detection of your hardware sensors:</p>
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88 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo sensors-detect</code></pre>
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92 <p>Verify that it works:</p>
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96 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sensors</code></pre>
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100 <p>It should display something like:</p>
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104 <pre>coretemp-isa-0000
106 Core 0: +46.0C (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
110 Core 1: +44.0C (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
115 <div class="paragraph">
116 <p>Then you can proceed to the installation of <code>psensor</code>. For Ubuntu and derivatives,
117 you should look at the <a href="ubuntu.html">Ubuntu support page</a>.</p>
119 <div class="paragraph">
120 <p>And finally launch the <code>psensor</code> executable.</p>
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123 <p>More information are available in the <a href="faq.html">Psensor FAQ</a>.</p>
128 <h2 id="_source_code">Source Code</h2>
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133 <p><a href="files">Download psensor</a></p>
136 <p>Get source from the GIT repository:</p>
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142 <pre>git clone http://git.wpitchoune.net/psensor.git</pre>
148 <p><a href="http://git.wpitchoune.net/gitweb?p=psensor.git">Browse source code</a></p>
155 <h2 id="_linux_distribution_support">Linux Distribution Support</h2>
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157 <div class="paragraph">
158 <p><code>psensor</code> should compile on any modern distribution including <code>GTK+</code>
159 v3 and <code>lm-sensors</code> which are quite common. For the Linux
160 distributions still stuck on <code>GTK+</code> v2, the old 0.6.x releases of
161 <code>psensor</code> can be used.</p>
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164 <p>If you have trouble compiling <code>psensor</code> on a specific Linux distribution,
165 don’t hesitate to report it.</p>
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168 <p>Binary packages of <code>psensor</code> are available for few Linux distributions:</p>
173 <p>package for Ubuntu is in the official universe repository since version 11.10 (Oneiric)</p>
176 <p><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html">package for Debian</a> is in the standard repository since 7.0</p>
179 <p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~jfi/+archive/ubuntu/ppa">PPA for Ubuntu</a></p>
182 <p><a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/psensor">package for OpenSuse</a></p>
185 <p><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/psensor/">package for ArchLinux</a>.</p>
192 <h2 id="_misc">Misc</h2>
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197 <p><a href="ubuntu.html">Psensor on Ubuntu</a></p>
200 <p><a href="remote.html">Remote monitoring</a></p>
203 <p><a href="contribute.html">How to contribute to psensor</a></p>
210 <h2 id="_contact">Contact</h2>
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212 <div class="paragraph">
213 <p>The Google Group <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!forum/psensor-users">psensor-users</a> can be used for discussion, questions and bug report.</p>
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216 <p>For announces or general information subscribe to Psensor <a href="https://plus.google.com/100166747457211594542">Google+ page</a>.</p>
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219 <p>Alternatively, you can contact me by e-mail: <a href="mailto:jeanfi@gmail.com">jeanfi@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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