Mangohud works really great for this inside a game, but outside of that I am not sure what to turn to check temps at idle.

I would prefer a GUI tool (QT since I am on Plasma), but I am also comfortable with the terminal. What are you all using?

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The default system monitor application that comes with KDE can do this. You will need to click the “edit page” button in the top right, and create a custom layout that shows all the sensors you want. Here is mine:

    You can display the data using pie charts, text, line charts, etc.

    Once you create your layout, you can even turn it into a widget that you can have on your desktop or drop into your taskbar.

    • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      KDE’s system monitor is absolutely great, I kinda missed it when switching to GNOME because their default system monitor is very lackluster. I’m now using Mission Center instead tho, which is great! It’s basically an almost 1:1 copy of the Windows Task Manager but I think that’s a good thing, Task Manager is one of the few things about Windows that are actually really good IMO.

      • million@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        That’s a cool program thanks for the recommendation. However, it’s disappointing they don’t have CPU temps on it. Actually there are CPU temps, just missed it the first time I was looking at the program.

    • million@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Are these dashboard exportable / importable at all? If so can you share you config files?

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        They are, though the sensors are hardware specific. So while I could export and send you this particular page, it likely won’t show any temps and fan rpms, as the associated hardware wouldn’t be there.

        A lot of stuff does work though, like the application list and network graphs, so I could export it for you tomorrow if you like.

        Or I could just explain more about how to configure it, it’s really not that complicated. For a display item, you basically just need to pick a display mode (line graph is good for temps) and then add what sensors you want displayed in it. Everything else is just visual tweaks you don’t have to touch.

  • donio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    For spot checks I just run sensors or watch sensors.
    sar -m TEMP | grep amdgpu when I want to see history (needs the sysstat cronjob configured to collect sensors data).

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Every GUI tool just uses the data from lm_sensors, so you’ll need to install that and have it identify the installed hardware sensors in your computer. After that, you can choose from a variety of GUI front ends; here is the Arch Wiki page with a list of common and popular GUI tools for this purpose.

    • million@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Thanks! Lm_sensors didn’t appear to be in the opensuse repo, but I will double check because it seems like a lot of things depend on it

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    I just use btop, and even though they recently added GPU diagnostics, there’s also nvtop.

    For GUI tools, there’s cpu-x and for Nvidia GPUs, there’s gwe, but I honestly barely use them in preference of btop and nvtop.

    • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I use btop + nvtop in tmux as well. Though btop recently added a GPU section, not detailed as nvtop but does the job if you only want to run btop.

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    Psensor. It’s gui only. I don’t care for the graph so I just resize the window until I only see the numbers.