I haven't tried conky on my personal desktop yet, tried with instability on work computer but it may have been some other issue, that computer is now gone, but I still want to familiarize with conky and scripts if I can, but I'm still a noob.
Is there a conky option to monitor fan speeds/activity?
For 18.1 KDE, what Mint Conky script would be good for starters that was fairly complete with information it presented?
Can Conky show fan speeds/use?
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Can Conky show fan speeds/use?
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Re: Can Conky show fan speeds/use?
hwmon is typical for that.
there's various ways though.
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
You have to figure out if your system presents them and how they are labeled.
here's what I have in the conky file on this particular system:
${color}CPU fan: ${alignr}${hwmon 0 fan 1} RPM
${color}CASE fan 2: ${alignr}${hwmon 0 fan 2} RPM
I dug around in the /sys/class/hwmon files.
My system enumerates them under "hwmon 0", although for you they may be under hwmon 1 or even hwmon 2. You have to find out.
This looks like a good info, I searched for conky hwmon:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=789
As far as a script there's millions. Just start with the default one and edit, and/or download a simple one and tweak it. A lot are posted in the showoff thread here, and millions more across the web.
there's various ways though.
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
You have to figure out if your system presents them and how they are labeled.
here's what I have in the conky file on this particular system:
${color}CPU fan: ${alignr}${hwmon 0 fan 1} RPM
${color}CASE fan 2: ${alignr}${hwmon 0 fan 2} RPM
I dug around in the /sys/class/hwmon files.
My system enumerates them under "hwmon 0", although for you they may be under hwmon 1 or even hwmon 2. You have to find out.
This looks like a good info, I searched for conky hwmon:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=789
As far as a script there's millions. Just start with the default one and edit, and/or download a simple one and tweak it. A lot are posted in the showoff thread here, and millions more across the web.
Re: Can Conky show fan speeds/use?
Conky can show just about anything. If you can see it on the terminal, you can pretty much expect it to output in conky.
Something like that would be nice and efficient. (although obviously more to type lol)
Actually add it to my $HOME/.bash_aliases file.
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while read; do [[ "$REPLY" == *[Ff][Aa][Nn]*RPM ]] && echo "$REPLY"; done <<< "$(/usr/bin/sensors)"
Actually add it to my $HOME/.bash_aliases file.
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[ -x /usr/bin/sensors ] && {
alias fans='\
while read
do
[[ "$REPLY" == *[Ff][Aa][Nn]*RPM ]] && echo "$REPLY"
done <<< "$(/usr/bin/sensors)"
'
}
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