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GNOME Shell system monitor extension

lastmod 2023-12-29created 2023-12-293 edits

Display system informations in gnome shell status bar, such as memory usage, cpu usage, network rates…

Prerequisites

This extension requires GNOME Shell v3.26 or later.

Before installing this extension, ensure you have the necessary system packages installed:

On Ubuntu: 

sudo apt install gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-nm-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gnome-system-monitor

On Debian: 

sudo apt install gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-nm-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gnome-system-monitor

On Fedora: 

sudo dnf install libgtop2-devel NetworkManager-libnm-devel gnome-system-monitor

On Arch Linux: 

sudo pacman -S libgtop networkmanager gnome-system-monitor clutter

On openSUSE (Leap 42.1): 

sudo zypper install gnome-shell-devel libgtop-devel libgtop-2_0-10 gnome-system-monitor

On Mageia 64-bit (just remove "64" on i586): 

sudo urpmi lib64gtop-gir2.0 lib64nm-gir1.0 lib64clutter-gir1.0 gnome-system-monitor

or 

sudo dnf install lib64gtop-gir2.0 lib64nm-gir1.0 lib64clutter-gir1.0 gnome-system-monitor

Additionally, if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, and want to monitor its memory usage, you'll need to install nvidia-smi.

For the browser installation (recommended), you will need the GNOME Shell integration browser extension for Chrome, Firefox or Opera.

Note: If you're using Firefox 52 or later, you will also need to install chrome-gnome-shell. The instructions are available on the GNOME wiki.

Troubleshooting

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