Psensor 0.6.2.8 Released, The Best Way to Display System Temperatures in Unity

Psensor 0.6.2.8 has been released and is now available in its unstable repository. Psensor is a graphical temperature monitoring tool for Linux. Psensor has already been added to Ubuntu 11.10 archives so it will be available to download from software center in Oneiric.

Psensor Features

• Displays temperatures of motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors)
• Displays temperatures of NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl)
• Displays temperatures of Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp)
• Displays rotation speed of fans (using lm-sensors)
• Also notifies you when temperatures cross a particular pre-defined limit

Today's update brings many new features and tighter integration with Unity without cluttering the top panel with too much info.

• Shows new globalmenu on Unity panel
• New sensor preferences window
• Unity Launcher icon for Pesensor can display the greatest temperature

• Application Indicator menu contains the information of all sensors for quick access

• Gtk3 support (Gtk2 still supported)
• Main window can be closed and shown again using the Application Indicator

Instructions

First install lm-sensors by running following commands:

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors

Now, run the command sudo sensors-detect to identify your hardware sensors. Confirm that its working by running command sensors from terminal.

Add the PPA and install Psensor. Run the following commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jfi/psensor-unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install psensor

Now just launch Psensor from menu.

Please note that it still a development build and not stable one.