monitor laptop temps in ubuntu ?


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I'm pretty sure all of that can be monitored with Conky. You just need to configure it to show you what you need to know. There's a gazillion sites that will help you with that. Here's an online version of it's man page http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html. The version in your repo is fine, but you'll still need to get your hands dirty editing conkyrc to get it the way you want. Easiest option is to look at what other people have done (gui) and try and relate that to their conkyrc file. It can be daunting at first, but once you "get" it, Conky is a joy to use.

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Possibly... initially.

But perseverance will reap great rewards. Conky's strength is in it's versatility and configurability. Unfortunately this can also make it seem overly complicated. It really isn't... Although you can find some really wild config files....

Install it, copy the sample conkyrc into /home and run it. Tweak it. Download some configs from the net. Tweak it some more... Honestly, you'll soon get the hang of it.

Imo, it is the best tool for this job, but if you really don't or can't grasp it, check out some of the screenlets on Gnome-look. They might be more familiar to you if your used to Yahoo Widgets and the like.

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the "sensors" command once you have lm_sensors installed simpler to use and you can have an "interface" (at least automatic update) with the command "watch". So:

watch sensors

is the simplest way to watch your temp

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the "sensors" command once you have lm_sensors installed simpler to use and you can have an "interface" (at least automatic update) with the command "watch". So:

watch sensors

is the simplest way to watch your temp

(Y)

While conky is a great little app to display this info, some of these other posts may be putting the cart before the horse, so to speak. Let's see if your sensors detect your voltages, fans and temps, first. :yes:

Then you can go about displaying them. ;)

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I use the Computer Temperature Monitor applet, along with CPU frequency scaling monitor. Linux is really good with temps. When my laptop is idle, it runs at 800Mhz and gets as cool as 32 degrees Celsius.

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