GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 361372
Monitor temperature (and optionally fan speeds) of a running system
Last modified: 2018-05-22 11:59:30 UTC
It would be excellent if system-monitor could hook into lm_sensors and provide temperature graphs and fan speed graphs in a separate pane, why not also utilise hddtemp when available. Temperature graphs are great to identify at a glance the systems physical health especially with laptops that might be prone to explosion.
Yep, i agree that would be great. I want to keep gnome-system-monitor system independant. So this either requires new API in libgtop or a dependency on a external lib. The problem about a new API is that even on linux, there are many ways to get temperatures (and fan speed) : lm_sensors, sysfs or even procfs. If i added a new API in libgtop, i'd only support sysfs because it is the only reliable (i mean it is clear that /sys/... is the temperature of cpu0, no mistake possible with fan, case temperature). And sysfs doesn't need external dependency, only /sys parsing :)
Sounds cool, how about temperature settings for a graphics card too? with historical graphs. I also think for temperature the scale of the graph would have to be drastically larger. 1 hour? with snapshots every 1 minute or so. Smoothing would be nice also as temperatures rise at a fairly constant rate over a minute the approximations would be fairly accurate on a curved graph, and with cairo rendering it could be possible to zoom either one of the scales thats probably a whole other feature request.
*** Bug 437608 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@Karl Lattimer: are you working on this? It's assigned to you and there has been no visible progress in the last five years.
Resetting assignees to default, as there has been no response from the assignee in the last 4 months.
*** Bug 582312 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Any progress with this feature?
No, see comment 5. Contributed patches would speed it up.
Is anything happening here? Can we try and find an assignee for thermal display tab on system monitor? It would be wicked if we got this working!!
(In reply to fruitless from comment #9) > Is anything happening here? No. See previous comments. > Can we try and find an assignee for thermal display tab on system monitor? Feel free to go ahead.
Created attachment 340529 [details] Freon screenshot from my system @Denis Donici, @fruitless: As André has pointed out, patches would be very welcome, I can assure you that if they happen they will get reviewed in a timely manner. However, please keep in mind that GNOME projects are community projects (including System Monitor), so most contributions are from volunteer contributions. If anyone volunteers to contribute patches, I am willing to review, update, fix and merge them. As for my priorities, I don't consider this issue a top priority, I would like to have this, but mostly after we get the new interface done [0], as that would better accomodate a thermal monitoring feature. Note: I am also highly interested in this feature, and until we will get to implement it, I suggest you try an alternative. I am using the awesome Freon GNOME Shell extension [1] - it does not have a historical chart, but you can check the temperatures and fan speeds easily, so it is OK, and it being integrated in GNOME shell, it gets the job done better, as I don't have to keep a System Monitor window open all the time. See my attached screenshot for details. [0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Usage [1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/841/freon/
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