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TEMPERATURE MONITOR IN UBUNTU Psensor is a temperature sensor available for ubuntu.Psensor is a GTK application for monitoring hardware sensors, including temperatures and fan speeds.        It displays a curve for each sensor, and uses Desktop  Notification  to        raise an alarm when a temperature is too high. On Ubuntu an Application        Indicator is also available, its icon changes when a temperature  alert        is raised.        It can monitor:          *  the  temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sen‐        sors).          * the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).          * the temperature and fan rotation speed of the A...

A DOCK FOR UBUNTU: Cairo-dock  is a pretty, light and convenient interface to your desktop, able to replace advantageously your system panel!  It features  multi-docks,  taskbar,  launchers  and  a  lot  of  useful applets.  Applets can be detached from the dock to act as desktop widgets.  Numerous  ready-to-use  themes  are downloadable in 1 click, and can be  easily customized at your convenience.It can use hardware acceleration    (OpenGL) to be very fast  and  low  on CPU.  It's  recommended to install the PLUG-INS package ( cairo-dock-plug-ins) to have access  to  more  views,  dialogues  and  many  plug-ins  an applets.    You can get it from the software--center or  open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install cairo-dock Add it to the startup items :   Cairo-dock offers plenty of interesting fea...

Overview TLP is a powersaver for ubuntu just like jupiter. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw smartmontools ethtool  OR sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-tools tlp tlp-rdw smartmontools ethtool Commands: Open a terminal and set your options according to your needs. Here is a list of commands you can use with tlp: start : Initialize tlp and apply settings according to the actual power source. bat Apply settings for battery power source. true Same as bat (this command is called when power source changes to battery). ac Apply settings for ac power source. false Same as ac (this command is called when power source changes to ac). usb Enable autosuspend for all usb devices, except blacklisted ones.    bayoff Turn off optical drive in drive bay (or ThinkPad UltrayBay). The dr...

Ubuntu and other flavors of Linux don't really need cleaning up as you might do in Windows. Over time, of course, you might accumulate things on your computer that you might not wish to keep - old documents, no-longer-used programs, etc. - but there is nothing really akin to the Windows registry that simply builds up clutter that slows your computer. The old stuff you save won't slow down your computer: it will probably run as fast a year from now as it does today. To clean some packages laying around Run: sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoclean But you can do the following to clean up your computer: Installing ubuntu tweak: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/next sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak and then run ubuntu-tweak and there is an option called Janitor which is used for cleaning as seen in the picture: BLEACHBIT:   BleachBit  deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and r...

               Install Infinity Conky in Ubuntu   Conky is a system monitor for X originally based on torsmo.  Since  its        inception,  Conky has changed significantly from its predecessor, while        maintaining simplicity and  configurability.  Conky  can  display  just        about  anything,  either on your root desktop or in its own window. Not        only does Conky have many built-in objects, it can  also  display  just        about any piece of information by using scripts and other external pro‐        grams.        Conky has more than 250 built  in  objects,  including  support  for  a ...