MATE Sensors Applet is an applet for the MATE Panel to display readings from hardware sensors, including CPU and system temperatures, fan speeds and voltage readings under Linux. Can interface via the Linux kernel i2c modules, or the i8k kernel modules Includes a simple, yet highly customization display and intuitive user-interface. Alarms can be set for each sensor to notify the user once a certain value has been reached, and can be configured to execute a given command at given repeated intervals.
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This packages contains the libXNVCtrl library from the nvidia-settings application. This library provides the NV-CONTROL API for communicating with the proprietary NVidia xorg driver. This package does not contain the nvidia-settings tool itself as that is included with the proprietary drivers themselves.
hddtemp is a tool that gives you the temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. information.