there's a nice applet for Gnome/Cinnamon that shows fan speed in the system tray (and if you click on it, shows the entire lmsensors output)
http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/199
but.................. the author sort of managed to break it and it hasn't worked correctly for a year or more.
but it still works great with a couple minor tweaks on:
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~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/sensorsFans@bi-ni.com/applet.js
http://pastebin.com/bbMKwZ8M
no rocket-surgery, just a couple edits I did to the parsing.