You’ll see the indicator applet once you installed the extension. There are a few similar extensions available. Open Ubuntu Software and then search for ‘system monitor extension’. Type user password (no asterisk feedback due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.Ģ.

When it opens, run command to install the necessary system libraries: sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0 To install the extension, first open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for ‘terminal’ from application menu.

Ability to set gragh width, background color, refresh time.ġ.

A drop-down menu with detailed information.Display resource usage in panel via digit or graph.Display informations for CPU, GPU, Memory, Swap, Net, Disk, Fan, Battery.So I removed it again, and that's where I am now.ġ) What is the 'System Monitor Width' setting in Preferences for, and should it not prevent a catastrophically bad value from being entered?Ģ) In what file does this application store this preference, so that I might fix it and reinstall the monitor, and run the system?ģ) How can I force the indicator to display the memory usage in the top bar as I want to do.Want to monitor Ubuntu system resources usage momentarily? There’s a gnome extension allows to display CPU usage, Memory usage, network speed, disk, GPU, and battery informations in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome status bar. Evidently some bad configuration setting had persisted through the removal. But I wanted the indicator, so I did sudo apt install indicator- multiload,Īnd the problems returned. Now I could log in and have a normally functioning system. I finally tried doing an emergency root login and doing

Eventually, the screen went black and pushed me out to the login page, but upon logging in, the same problems persisted. I increased it way more than that, perhaps to 600. I thought increasing the 'System Monitor Width' setting above 40 pixels might help. Now we come to a more serious problem: I started messing around with the Preference tab for System Load Indicator. This used to work, before upgrading to 22.04.

I could click on the indicator and a drop down would show me the memory load and other statistics, but I wanted it constantly displayed in the bar. First, the System Load Indicator (indicator- multiload) did not respect my preferences to display Memory Usage, which is the only thing I need displayed in the upper bar.

Ubuntu ram monitor