Purpose
X Hardware Monitor monitors hardware indicators (sensors) of a running system for temperature, voltage, fan speed etc. with a graphical panel. The default configuration allows to monitor up to 3 temperatures, 3 fan speeds and 6 voltages. This tool is more particularly adequate for bi-processor systems, but will also work for mono-processor after disabling the 2nd CPU sensors in the "theme".
Why
I needed a tool to monitor all the numerous indicators of my Abit BP6 (a bi-Celeron board) in an eye catch. I also used it when I replaced this board with a MSI K7D Master (a bi-Athlon).
Where
Latest C sources are in this tar-gzip archive: hardmon-1.0.tar.gz.
Requirements
- lmsensors (at run time, not build time),
- Xlib,
- XPM.
The future
- more config files for different motherboards
- implement CPUs and system load indicators, with history graphs