libxnvctrl (NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension) The NV-CONTROL X extension provides a mechanism for X clients to query and set configuration parameters of the NVIDIA X driver. State set by the NV-CONTROL X extension is assumed to be persistent only for the current server generation. This can be useful for programs such as conky, mate-sensors-applet, and xfce4-sensors-plugin to allow for realtime monitoring of your NVIDIA cards temperature, fan speed, memory, etc. This package is version independent. It does not have to match the nvidia-driver or nvidia-legacy packages. I try to keep it in line with SBO packages, however it is not required that this package is the same version as the binary drivers.