fancontrol-gui

fancontrol-gui

A GUI for fancontrol which is part of lm_sensors https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors. It uses the KAuth module of KDE Frameworks 5 to write the generated config file. Furthermore, it communicates with SystemD via DBus to control the fancontrol service.

KAuth currently doesn't support install prefixes other than where KAuth itself was installed. If you want to use another install prefix, you have to run the application as root or another user with the necessary privileges to avoid the KAuth helper.

If you want to avoid authorizing yourself when using the helper you can set the option -DINSTALL_POLKIT=true. This will install a Polkit rules file allowing members of the group 'fancontrol' to edit the config file and manipulate the SystemD service. You can change the group name with the -DPOLKIT_GROUP_NAME option. Service name and config file can be set with the options -DSTANDARD_SERVICE_NAME and -DSTANDARD_CONFIG_FILE.

If you want to compile without SystemD support set the option -DNO_SYSTEMD=true.

If your distro looks for QML plugins in /usr/lib/qt/qml instead of /usr/lib/qml you need to set the option -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=true.

To compile the additional KCM set the CMake option -DBUILD_KCM=on. The KCM is only built, if the -DNO_SYSTEMD option is unset or set to false.

To compile the additional KDE Plasma plasmoid set the CMake option -DBUILD_PLASMOID=on.

Screenshots

Build Requirements

Qt5	Base/Core Widgets Gui QML
KF5	I18n Auth Config Package Declarative CoreAddons DBusAddons Extra-Cmake-Modules Notifications
Other	C++ compiler Gettext CMake

Additional Runtime Requirements

Qt5	BQuick 2.6 QuickControls2 2.1 QuickLayouts 1.2 QuickDialogs 1.2
KF5	Kirigami2 2.3

Additional Requirements for KCM

KF5	KCMUtils

Additional Requirements for Plasmoid

KF5	Plasma

Commands to Install Requirements

Debian/Ubuntu Command to Install the Compilation Requirements

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates git build-essential cmake gcc g++ libkf5config-dev libkf5auth-dev libkf5package-dev libkf5declarative-dev libkf5coreaddons-dev libkf5dbusaddons-dev libkf5kcmutils-dev libkf5i18n-dev libkf5plasma-dev libqt5core5a libqt5widgets5 libqt5gui5 libqt5qml5 extra-cmake-modules qtbase5-dev libkf5notifications-dev qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2 qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qml-module-qtquick-controls2 qml-module-qtquick-layouts qml-module-qt-labs-settings qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel gettext

[!NOTE]
This was tested on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Debian 10.

Fedora

sudo dnf install git gcc g++ cmake kf5-ki18n-devel kf5-kauth-devel kf5-kconfig-devel kf5-kpackage-devel kf5-kcoreaddons-devel kf5-kdbusaddons-devel extra-cmake-modules kf5-knotifications-devel qt5-qtquickcontrols2-devel kf5-kconfigwidgets-devel kf5-kcmutils-devel kf5-plasma-devel cmake gettext qt5-qtbase-devel gcc-c++ kf5-kdeclarative-devel qt5-qtquickcontrols qt5-qtquickcontrols2

[!NOTE]
This was tested on Fedora 33.

Nix

This repository offers a nix flake:

nix develop
nix build

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Maldela/fancontrol-gui.git
cd fancontrol-gui
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_KCM=on -DBUILD_PLASMOID=on
make -j
sudo make install

Nix

This repository offers a home-manager module or alternatively the package itself.

Add this repository to your inputs.

fancontrol-gui.url = "github:Maldela/fancontrol-gui";

Enable the home-manager module.

inputs.fancontrol-gui.homeManagerModules.default

And add fancontrol-gui to your enabled programs.

programs.fancontrol-gui.enable = true;

Uninstallation

cd fancontrol-gui/build
sudo make uninstall