My desktop has a nasty habit. When I have several high intensity applications running and my CPU is at maximum usage for a period of time, the core temperature rises and my computer auto-shuts off.
Is there a way I can monitor (write a script) my CPU temperature in the background and have some sort of warning when it gets above a certain temperature?
I'm running Opensuse with dwm as my window manager. I usually use sensors
to see my CPU temperature.
Best Answer
You could write a script to display your temperature in dwm's status bar, for example:
Your
sensors
output may be more complex, depending on your setup: this works on one of my machines:If you patch in statuscolours, you can additionally have the output change colour as the
$temp
hits higher values...The Arch Wiki has an introduction to setting up a basic statusbar script and the dwm site includes an .xinitrc example.
You can see my
dwm-status
script for more details: http://beta.intuxication.org/jasonwryan/archer/file/tip/Scripts/dwm-status