A terminal-based Linux application for fan control and temperature monitoring on ThinkPad laptops.
The application continously runs the sensors command to read
temperatures and display these in the terminal. To control the fan speed,
commands are written to the /proc/acpi/ibm/fan file. If the user lacks
permissions to do so the owner of the file is changed to the current
user by calling the pkexec command.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| 0..7 | Set fan speed to specific level |
| A | Set fan speed to automatic |
| F | Set fan speed to full |
| Q | Quit application |
- T14s AMD Gen 1
- T490
- E14 Intel Gen 6
The project uses lm-sensors and policykit. These can be installed
with the commands below.
sudo apt install lm-sensors policykit-1
sudo pacman -S lm_sensors polkit
This project is written in the rust programming language and is built using the cargo package manager, see https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install for installation instructions.
After rust and cargo is installed you can install thinkfan-tui from
crates.io by running:
cargo install thinkfan-tui
For Arch Linux users the package is available in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thinkfan-tui
There are also pre-built binaries available at https://github.com/karjonas/thinkfan-tui/releases. Unzip the binary, make it executable and run.
Please report any issues you find at
https://github.com/karjonas/thinkfan-tui/issues. If your laptop model
is not in the list of tested laptops, feel free to test it add it to
the list. Outputs from the sensors -j command are also appreciated
for more test coverage on different laptops.
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
This project is hosted at https://github.com/karjonas/thinkfan-tui
thinkfan-tui is inspired by
Thinkfan UI.