Fan Control Tray Icon

A simple fan control tray icon I created to switch between auto mode and full-speed on my Thinkpad Extreme.

Autostart on Startup (tested on Ubuntu 18.04)

Note: This is not an ideal configuration. Writing a file into the sudoer file is not a safe approach, but I went with this as it was the fastest way to get the script to start at start-up.

1. In the package, run chmod 755 fanControl.sh (this is very important so non-sudoers can not exploit this configuration to run commands as sudo with a password)
2. Open up visual sudo with sudo visudo and add the following line ALL ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: <path to package>/fanControl.sh
3. Add an autostart config file:
   1. cd ~/.config/autostart
   2. Create a new file, for example fanControlTrayIcon.desktop
   3. Add the following contents:

   [Desktop Entry]
   Type=Application
   Name=Fan Control Tray Icon
   Exec=<path to package>/fanTrayIcon.py
   X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
   

Resources

• Controlling fans on Thinkpads [1]
• Creating a tray icon [2] [3]
• Running a script on start up [4]