Thinkfan Control

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This is an application for controlling fan speed on IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads.

It can also monitor CPU temp and fan RPM.

It is written for Linux only. For windows, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/tp4xfancontrol/

How it Works?

• Parses sensors command to show CPU temp and fan RPM
• Modifies /proc/acpi/ibm/fan to change fan speed
• to autostart edit the install.sh file

Dependencies

• lm-sensors
• python3
• python-tk
• pillow-tk

Setup

• to activate autostart edit install.sh line 11 removing the "#" and adding your user instead of [youruser]
• chmod +x install.sh
• sudo ./install.sh

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Note: You are required to have the Linux kernel with thinkpad-acpi patch. (Ubuntu, Solus and a few others already seem to have this)