GNOME Shell System Monitor Extension Available In The WebUpd8 GNOME3 PPA

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GNOME Shell System Monitor is a highly configurable system monitor extension for GNOME Shell (do not confuse this with the official System Monitor extension!). It can display the CPU, RAM, Swap, Network or disk usage on the top GNOME Shell bar, either as a graph or digits (or both) and you can customize the colors, position and more.

GNOME Shell system monitor

GNOME Shell system monitor

To make it easier to install, I've uploaded GNOME Shell System Monitor to the WebUpd8 GNOME 3 PPA for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Install it using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-system-monitor

Once installed, restart GNOME Shell (ALT + F2 and enter "r" or log out and log back in), open GNOME Tweak Tool and activate the extension.

If you're not using Ubuntu, get GNOME Shell System Monitor via GitHub.

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"Conky Lunatico Rings" Displays System Info On Your Desktop In The Form Of Gauges

7:41 PM

Conky Lunatico Rings is a really nice Conky configuration based on Conky Orange which displays rings for the CPU, memory, disk and network usage, in the form of gauges.


You can download Conky Lunatico Rings from HERE.


Because there were some spacing issues on my system, I've tweaked the configuration a bit so it looks like this:

Conky Lunatico Rings
(Using the original configuration, it looks like this on my system)


But maybe the original Conky Lunatico Rings works better on your computer (it's most probably related to the font configuration) so try the original firstly. If you want my tweaked version, you can get it from HERE


Because the wireless ring is useless for me, I've removed it - so if you don't want the wireless part and don't know how to do it, you can download my modified Conky Lunatico Rings without wireless from HERE. Here's a screenshot with this config:

Conky Lunatico Rings


But you can of course tweak it some more by yourself, it's really not that difficult.


Usage


Firstly, install Conky. In Ubuntu, use the following command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install conky

To use Conky Lunatico Rings, you'll need to install the Ubuntu font - this is already available on your system if you use Ubuntu 10.10+ or you can manually download it from font.ubuntu.com.

Then, download Conky Lunatico Rings (links above), extract the downloaded archive, create a folder called ".conky" in your home directory and move the "conky_lunatico.lua" and "conkyrc_lunatico" files into this folder.

And finally, run it using the following command:
conky -c ~/.conky/conkyrc_lunatico


To add Conky Lunatico Rings to startup, open Startup Applications, under "Name" enter "conky" and under "Command", enter this:
conky -p 50 -c /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.conky/conkyrc_lunatico

Where "YOUR_USERNAME" is yes, your username :) This will delay the Conky startup which is required for it to function properly.


For more Conky configurations, check out our Conky tag.

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Indicator-Multiload Update Brings Detailed System Info

10:49 PM

Indicator Multiload

Indicator-Multiload (or System Load Indicator) is an Ubuntu Application Indicator that displays the network up/down speed as well as CPU, Memory and hard disk usage on the GNOME / Unity panel using a graph, just like the old System Monitor GNOME applet.

A new Indicator-Multiload version was available in its daily builds PPA for some time and today this new version seems stable enough so it's finally available in the "stable daily builds" PPA.

The new version displays detailed system info when clicking the AppIndicator such as the exact memory and CPU usage, network upload / download speed and so on. This was badly needed because Application Indicators can't display tooltips so using the previous stable version you could only see a graph but no exact values.

Also, the bug in Unity that was causing a memory leak when using Indicator-Multiload was fixed according to this bug report.



Install Indicator-Multiload (System Load Indicator) in Ubuntu


To add the "stable daily" PPA and install the latest Indicator-Multiload in Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10, use the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:indicator-multiload/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload

Once installed, search for "System Load Indicator" in Dash to run it.

If you want to get updates faster (but it may be buggy), use the daily PPA.

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GNOME Shell System Monitor Extension Gets A Preferences Dialog And Lots Of New Features

3:49 PM

Since we last wrote about the GNOME Shell System Monitor extension, it got support for network upload / download rates and yesterday it also got a config dialog with lots of new features. Read on!


Using the latest GNOME Shell System Monitor extension from GIT, you can set the CPU, RAM, network or whatever to be hidden from the panel, but you can still see the values by clicking the extension icon / text on the panel:

GNOME Shell System Monitor extension


But that's not all! You can now set the extension to display a graph on the panel thanks to a new Preferences dialog. From the preferences you can also enable/disable the text, extension icon, change the refresh time, graph width or colors, etc. Also, clicking any item in the System Monitor extension drop-down (I'm not sure how that's called) will open Gnome System Monitor.

GNOME Shell System Monitor extension



Here's another screenshot in which I've set GNOME Shell System Monitor to display both a graph and text:

GNOME Shell System Monitor extension



Install GNOME Shell System Monitor extension


For Arch Linux users, there's a package available in AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49250


For Ubuntu and Fedora, firstly install the dependencies:

- Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install python-gobject libgtop2-7 git-core

- Fedora:
sudo yum install pygobject2 libgtop2 git


Then, to set up the GNOME Shell System Monitor extension, run the commands below (for any GNOME Shell version 3.0 or 3.2):

rm -rf ~/git_projects #just in case
mkdir ~/git_projects && cd ~/git_projects
git clone git://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet.git

Only GNOME 3.0.x, now run the following commands:
cd gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet
git checkout gnome-3.0
cd -
Now again for any GNOME Shell version (3.0 or 3.2):
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
ln -s ~/git_projects/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet/system-monitor@paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas
sudo cp ~/git_projects/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet/org.gnome.shell.extensions.system-monitor.gschema.xml /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas
sudo cp ~/git_projects/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet/system-monitor-applet-config.py /usr/local/bin/system-monitor-applet-config

And finally, reload GNOME Shell (ALT + F2 and enter "r" or log out and log back in).


Thanks to Casey J. Peter via WebUpd8 Facebook page for the tip!

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