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Disabling devices and sensors you don't use will reduce resource and energy consumption.

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Have a tray icon on desktop login for easy UI access and running confirmation

• Add the CoolerControl program to the list of startup programs on login
  There are several ways to do this and is different for each Desktop Environment, but some examples are:
• GNOME: Gnome Tweaks -> Startup Applications
• KDE: System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Autostart

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CoolerControl does not always display all possible sensors and devices. It finds what is usable by the program and displays those.
The criteria are basically:

• fans that are controllable
• temperatures with reasonable values
• devices that have sensors that meet those requirements.

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Setting a hwmon based speed profile to 'Default' will enable automatic mode for those fans - aka bios controlled.

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Some fans work in steps, like with the thinkpad, so the reported fan duty % will be the closest step to what one has set.

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Some Devices may show up twice in the UI, this is usually because both liquidctl and hwmon have drivers for them. Many times liquidctl offers additional features like RGB control, but that is not always the case. Pick the one that works best for your use case and blacklist the other one to avoid double-requesting data from the same device. If you're not sure, pick the last listed one, which would be the hwmon driver.