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Is Unity causing my Macbook to run near-burning hot?

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I have a macbook 5,1 with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed. Using the default Unity interface (that is, compiz).

With time the case on where the GPU is located gets very hot, a few more degrees and I'd hurt myself. This is usual for some gaming, but in idle state surely not. The fans get working, and I can keep running, but my poor laptop gets burned :( and battery is consumed faster.

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answered 1 Year ago uestred · Accepted Answer

This looks like a problem regarding Unity.It may be too powerful to handle and causes your laptop to overheat.

First of all you can monitor your GPU temperature by typing nvidia-settings in terminal.Alternatively, you can install indicator-sensors by typing the following list of commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexmurray/indicator-sensors

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install indicator-sensors

You can install laptop mode to your ubuntu machine which may solve your overheating problem by typing sudo apt-get install laptop-mode in terminal.

Additionally you may take a look at the power bug issue regarding the Linux Kernel workaround .

Last but not least,you can disable animations and effects from CompizConfig Settings Manager