Now the poor cat has to run permanently, even if the CPU load is 1 - 2 - 3%.
What if some simple setting is implemented, make the cat sleeping for the low values of CPU load?
Let's say, a checkbox "sleep under 5%" or a input field "sleep under [...] %".

P.S. That is a great idea, such a widget. Thanks.

Today I noticed that the icons in the right part of gnome-shell top bar (Gnome 43) were moving a bit all the time horizontally. It was caused by CPU % moving around 8-12%

Maybe it would be interesting to reserve the space of the extra ciphers to not show this movement 🤔

Thanks a lot

When CPU usage is low, the animation looks choppy, perhaps a separate walking animation would fit well?

Fedora 32, GNOME 3.36, default theme and font and I switched all other extensions

I think it would be cool if you could click the cat to launch gnome-system-monitor with the resources tab open (-r commandline option), to get more detailed info on cpu usage as a quick shortcut.

First of all, I was searching for a simple extension that shows cpu utilization and when I show that your extension also has and idle threshold setting I was amazed. I wanted to have something like that for a very long time. Great work!

1. I'm not sure you want to add ram utilization to your extension, but it would be a great addition to have both metrics in a compact "block". A simple, static icon can indicate which percentage corresponds to cpu and which to ram utilization.

2. It many not be as clean as you have it now, but you may be interested in adding the following option. Besides your current "Idle threshold", use the same metric to change org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power sleep-inactive-ac-type to 'nothing'. Optionally, add a "default" behavior for when the value is below the threshold.

   I don't know if this makes since to anyone other than me, but sometimes I want my computer to lock and put the monitors to sleep, but I don't want my whole system to suspend. For example, when I am running a job in the background I wouldn't mind the energy savings from turning off my monitors, but I also don't want my program to stop running. Right now I have set sleep-inactive-ac-type='nothing' because I always forget to change it when I am running some simulations overnight and I am wasting a lot of extra energy.

I have set the scaling factor to 1.25 in gnome tweaks > fonts > scaling factor. All the extensions and text scale well, except runcat.

Gnome 3.34. Everything was fine till the recent update. Now it doesn't work with the following message:

JS ERROR: Extension [email protected]: Error: Type name Gjs_PanelMenuButton is already registered
_init/GObject.Object._classInit@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/overrides/GObject.js:385:24
registerClass@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/overrides/GObject.js:94:12
@/home/pha/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/panelMenuButton.js:12:23
@/home/pha/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js:6:7
_callExtensionInit@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:348:13
loadExtension@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionSystem.js:278:22
callback@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionDownloader.js:244:17
gotExtensionZipFile/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/extensionDownloader.js:108:13

Please let me know if I can provide more details.

Adding the ability to change the location of the target directory.

If you run the command sudo make install then the installation will be in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions

After approval, I can send pull igor-dyatlov@1611532

runcat stops running after the screen went dark by gnome power settings, have to restart runcat in the gnome extension once again. not so after a suspend of the linux box

After forcing this extension to install on Gnome 42.rc by adding "42" to metadata.json, the settings window looks wrong. The settings themselves still work, they just look a bit scrunched :P
Other than this cosmetic issue, the rest of the extension seems to work properly without any extra changes.

If you see only one indicator for total cpu load then it's harder to detect the case of a single program locking up and consuming 100% of a single core. There should be possibility of having one cat per core, or some other indication that a core is 100% busy.

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/blob/main/js/ui/animation.js

Gnome version 40.1 has recently landed. But RunCat's shell-version only includes up to "40.0" so it's now listed as "INCOMPATIBLE" for distros running the latest Gnome.

Current RunCat listing for Gnome 40.1 users:

I would prefer if there was an option to move the cat to the right, left, or center of gnome panel

Hey @win0err,
while thinking about adding multiple runner support to your extension, i saw there is already a PR merged.

Do you intent releasing these features?

Best regards

I need my cat back. ;)

There's already the setting for sleeping threshold, I don't see why these shouldn't be there as well.

I'm already working on this on my fork and will create a PR once done :)

On Gnome 40.4.0 I noticed updating issue, extension seems to stop and restart updating itself randomly.
Load string is also trimmed at percentage sign and returns back to normal when clicked anywhere at the top bar.
I tried to take a screenshot but this operation also fixes the problem.

Debian bookworm, Gnome 40.4.0

Hi guys, I saw the upgrade notice today and i open the gnome extension website to upgrade my runcat, but it failed, then I try to reinstall runcat but it also failed, is anybody here know what's going on? and how can i install the runcat latest version..
My system is Ubuntu 22.04 with gnome 42.4 in Wayland.

I would like having a text input in the settings that allows me to set the system monitor to something like btop.

It stopped loading after upgrading to Fedora 39. Attempted to reinstall the extension, but it didn't help. The following is seen in the log:

fedora gnome-shell[2156]: JS ERROR: Extension [email protected]: SyntaxError: import declarations may only appear at top level of a module @ resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js:3:0

It being a GNOME extension, I think there should also be a wanda the fish and Gegl (Genetically Large Engineered Goat).

Possibly one or both only as easter eggs :)

The settings of extension [email protected] had an error:

Error: Requiring Adw, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Adw' (any version) not found

Stack trace:

@/home/seoyeon/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/prefs.js:6:5
_init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:204:33
OpenExtensionPrefsAsync/<@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:122:28
asyncCallback@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:132:13
run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:175:20
main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:19:13
run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:222:19
start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:5
@/usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions:1:17

The extension is not yet compatible with Gnome 44.
Thanks !

Just like the version of mac os, show

• CPU usage
• Memory performance
• Battery state
• Disk capacity
• Network connection

and many more

I don’t know the complexity of implementing this function, but it is really needed. I did not find a suitable software or plug-in on linux like runcat (as far as the gnome plug-in installation I currently test and use has prompted an error, and the experience It's really not as good as runcat), so if it can display more hardware information, it would be great, thank you very much for bringing runcat to the linux platform, waiting for your reply!