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System Sensors

Your system likely has many sensors built in for displaying useful information on internal hardware status. For example, the commands below will help in finding the path to system temperature sensors.

user@host ~ $:sensors -f
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0:  +80.6°F  (high = +176.0°F, crit = +212.0°F)
Core 0:        +73.4°F  (high = +176.0°F, crit = +212.0°F)
Core 1:        +73.4°F  (high = +176.0°F, crit = +212.0°F)
Core 2:        +69.8°F  (high = +176.0°F, crit = +212.0°F)
Core 3:        +68.0°F  (high = +176.0°F, crit = +212.0°F)

acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1:        +82.0°F  (crit = +221.0°F)
temp2:        +85.6°F  (crit = +221.0°F)

nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
GPU core:     +0.97 V  (min =  +0.60 V, max =  +1.27 V)
fan1:         691 RPM
temp1:        +89.6°F  (high = +203.0°F, hyst = +37.4°F)
                       (crit = +221.0°F, hyst = +41.0°F)
                       (emerg = +275.0°F, hyst = +41.0°F)
power1:       36.13 W  (crit = 275.00 mW)

asus-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
cpu_fan:        0 RPM

We can see that the CPU and GPU temperature sensors are known to our system as coretemp-isa-0000 and nouveau-pci-0100, respectively. Run the command below to list the system path to all connected temperature devices by name, and cross-check these two outputs to gather the needed information for your sensors.

user@host ~ $:for i in /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/temp*_input; do echo "$(<$(dirname $i)/name): $(cat ${i%_*}_label 2>/dev/n
ull || echo $(basename ${i%_*})) $(readlink -f $i)"; done

acpitz: temp1 /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/hwmon0/temp1_input
acpitz: temp2 /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/hwmon0/temp2_input
coretemp: Package id 0 /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp1_input
coretemp: Core 0 /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp2_input
coretemp: Core 1 /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp3_input
coretemp: Core 2 /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp4_input
coretemp: Core 3 /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp5_input
nouveau: temp1 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/hwmon/hwmon3/temp1_input

Displays

When attempting to manage displays, whether its the orientation or enabling / disabling, look to the man pages for xrandr. See the commands below for some examples.

# Output information on displays
xrandr

# List the output names for displays
xrandr --output

# Move DP-2 to the right of HDMI-1
xrandr --output DP-2 --right-of HDMI-1
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