Ubuntu system monitor indicator software#
Every piece of software out there seems to have some kind of critical defect that makes it completely unusable. I never managed to get my GPU fully quiet. Plus: I´ve created it very “lean” optically so it takes only a small percentage of my screen.„For years I have had problems with fans in my various PCs all spinning up and down for seemingly no reason whatsoever. And you can personalize it to your heart´s content. This programme doesn´t seem to show that kind of behaviour and as far as I know conky has a raputation for being particularly light on resources. I don´t see the point in filling up my logs with that kind of “unneccessary” entries.
Sep 23 18:27:07 rosika-Lenovo-H520e indicator-appli: Application already exists, re-requesting properties. With standard settings it writes 4 entries per second! Like so: Sep 23 18:27:07 rosika-Lenovo-H520e indicator-appli: Application already exists, re-requesting properties.
But I found out that this programme writes an incredible amount of log data. I used to employ multiload-indicator for monitoring cpu, RAM etc. I´ve become an avid user of conky lately. there are some amazing ones that can be found (second pic below: purportedly on elementary os) by doing a quick web search, but (as Abhishek mentions in his article) some of them are very outdated and may not run on a user’s specific system. on bodhi (without any kind of screen compositor) it’s background window is a black (or whatever color the user chooses) box. some distros/DE’s are better at creating the transparent background than others.
Ubuntu system monitor indicator download#
it just presents several of the system stats i like to keep an eye on (memory, cpu, internet upload and download volume/speed) right there on the desktop any time i am curious about what is going on behind the scenes. Mine is in no way very complicated (though it did take me plenty of experimentation to come up with one i liked. there is also a manager program (it wasn’t super reliable the last time i used it so i started playing around with the individual options myself) that Abhishek mentions in his article which may be helpful for beginners. it can takes some time to get used to the variables and options. the configuration file that allows the user to change settings is a plain text file. as usual has a nice summary article about it. Installation is fairly easy on the distros i have tried (ubuntu-based, debian-based and manjaro) so far. i thought it was pretty cool to see stuff like ram/cpu usage and stats right there on my desktop. Anybody else here a conky user/fan? i think i first encountered it in parted magic while using the ultimate boot cd back when i was still running window$ and trying to learn troubleshooting.
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