GNOME Sensors Applet <http://sensors-applet.sourceforge.net/>
Author: Alex Murray <pragmatine@gmail.com>
GNOME Sensors Applet is an applet for the GNOME Panel to display readings from hardware sensors, including CPU temperature, fan speeds and voltage readings under Linux.
Supported interfaces:
- ACPI thermal zones, via the Linux kernel ACPI modules
- Linux kernel i2c[1] modules (for kernel 2.6).
- lm_sensors[1] and i2c[1] packages (for kernel 2.4)
- libsensors[1] (provided by lm_sensors package)
- Linux kernel i8k[2] module (for Dell Inspiron Laptops).
- Linux kernel ibm-acpi[3] module
- Linux kernel PowerPC modules therm_adt746x and therm_windtunnel.
- Linux kernel iMac G5 Windfarm module.
- hddtemp[4] daemon for reading temperatures from S.M.A.R.T. equipped disks.
- Linux kernel Omnibook[5] module.
- NVIDIA graphics cards via libNVCtrl (supplied with nvidia-settings[6])
- Linux kernel sonypi[7] module (for Sony Vaio laptops)
Includes a simple, yet highly customizable display and intuitive user-interface.
Alarms can be set for each sensor to notify the user once a certain high or low value has been reached, and can be configured to execute a given command at given repeated intervals.
GNOME HIG v2.0 compliant
libnotify[8] support for alarm conditions
The icons bundled as part of GNOME Sensors Applet were created by epicbard[9] as well as the Tango Project[10], and are released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license[11].
Requirements
- GNOME 2.8 desktop environment, with GTK >=2.4.0 and libpanelapplet-2
- For ACPI support:
- Linux kernel 2.6 with ACPI modules loaded (CONFIG_ACPI & CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL)
- For i2c support:
- Linux kernel 2.6 with appropriate i2c modules loaded OR
- Linux kernel 2.4 with lm_sensors and i2c packages installed
- libsensors support is available for either of the above (will utilise settings in /etc/sensors.conf
- For i8k support:
- Linux kernel 2.6 with i8k module enabled ("Support for Dell laptops" (CONFIG_I8K))
- For ibm-acpi support:
- Linux kernel >=2.6.10 with ibm-acpi module enabled (CONFIG_IBM_ACPI)
- For PowerPC support:
- Linux kernel 2.6 with the therm_adt746x ("Support for thermal management on laptops with ADT 746x chipset" (THERM_ADT746X)) or therm_windtunnel ("Support for thermal management on Windtunnel G4s" (THERM_WINDTUNNEL)) module enabled
- For iMac G5 and other G5s support:
- Linux kernel 2.6 with the Windfarm ("Support for thermal management on iMac G5" (WINDFARM_PM81)) module enabled
- For hddtemp support:
- hddtemp running in daemon mode
- For Omnibook support:
- Linux kernel 2.6 with the Omnibook module
- For NVIDIA graphics cards support:
- NVIDIA binary driver with libNVCtrl installed (provided with the nvidia-settings utility) (to enable support GNOME Sensors Applet needs to be configured with the --with-nvidia flag)
- For sonypi support:
- Linux kernel 2.6 with sonypi module enabled ("Sony Vaio Programmable I/O Control Device support" (CONFIG_SONYPI))
Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and most standard distro users will need to do a
./configure --prefix=/usr
to ensure proper installation within the correct path.
To enable support for NVIDIA GPUs GNOME Sensors Applet requires the standard X11 headers as well as libNVCtrl (supplied by nvidia-settings), and needs to be compiled with support for NVIDIA GPUs as:
./configure --with-nvidia
If your X11 headers are in a non-standard location, these can also be specified as:
./configure --with-nvidia --with-x11=PATH_TO_X11_LIBRARIES
where PATH_TO_X11_LIBRARIES is the path to your X11 libraries (such as /usr/include/X11), although in most cases this should not be needed.
[1] http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/
[2] http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/00-README
[3] http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/
[4] http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php
[5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke
[6] ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/
[7] http://www.popies.net/sonypi/
[8] http://www.galago-project.org/
[9] http://www.uoguelph.ca/~fanguelo/
[10] http://tango.freedesktop.org/
[11] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/