
lm-sensors the speedfan equivalent in Linux, then add your gui front-end (for lm-sensors) of choice (Gkrellm or conky ) or some other choice.

Xsensors strictly for fan control sensing looks to be about right unless you were an over-clocker, which I understand has diminished in popularity, since processors now come prepared to over-clock. Sometimes the motherboard provides fan control, sometimes the computer case provides the connectors and temperature sensors to enable that control, such as Asus qfan I don't know why people think they even need this For example, you can choose a minimum and maximum. With SpeedFan you can configure the program to change fan speeds remotely according to the system temperatures. The software can also display S.M.A.R.T data from hard disks.


Yes for speed based on sensor temperature, so not entirely complete user control SpeedFan is a hardware monitor that monitors: temperature, fan speed, voltage, and hard disk temperatures. Hoppel wrote: While there is one excellent software for Windows - Speedfan - that gives the user complete control and a good interface, for Linux there seem to be only command line tools.Speedfan - that gives the user complete control.
