gnome-shell-extension-vitals
Vitals is a GNOME extension for displaying your computer's temperature, voltage, fan speed, memory usage, processor load, system resources, network speed and storage stats in your GNOME Shell's menu bar. This is a one stop shop to monitor all of your vital sensors. Vitals uses asynchronous polling to provide a smooth user experience.
Installation
1) Install these packages
Ubuntu
apt install gir1.2-gtop-2.0 lm-sensors
Fedora
yum install libgtop2-devel lm_sensors
Arch/Manjaro
sudo pacman -Syu libgtop lm_sensors gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
2a) Download from GitHub (either perform step 2a or 2b, not both)
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
git clone https://github.com/corecoding/Vitals.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
2b) Download from extensions.gnome.org
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1460/vitals/
3) Activate after installation
Restart GNOME Shell (Alt+F2
, r
, Enter
) and enable the extension through gnome-tweak-tool.
Credits
Vitals was originally forked from gnome-shell-extension-freon. I was having trouble finding an up to date, resource friendly and fully featured system monitoring tool. My biggest pet peeve was random system delays becaus of I/O blocking polls, and thus, the idea for Vitals was born!
Icons
- (voltage|fan)-symbolic.svg - inherited from Freon project.
- (system|storage)-symbolic.svg - from Pop! OS theme.
- temperature-symbolic.svg - iconnice studio.
- (cpu|memory)-symbolic.svg - DinosoftLabs.
- network*.svg - Yannick Lung.
- Health icon - Dod Cosmin.
Disclaimer
Sensor data is obtained from the system using hwmon and GTop. Core Coding and the Vitals authors are not responsible for improperly represented data. No warranty expressed or implied.
Development Commands
- Reload extension
gnome-shell-extension-tool -r [email protected]
- Launch preferences
gnome-shell-extension-prefs [email protected]
- View logs
journalctl --since="`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'`" -f | grep Vitals
- Compile schemas
glib-compile-schemas --strict schemas/
- Compile translation file
msgfmt vitals.po -o vitals.mo