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?

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 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
      3·
      9 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

  • donio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 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).

  • baltassar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Have you tried creating a custom page with the plasma system monitor?

    plasma-systemmonitor

    You can create a new page to monitor all your temps, then add rows for each sensor you want to monitor, select the chart type or text and then select the sensor itself.

    I’m sure there are plenty of guides on how to set it up to get what you want.

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 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.

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 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.