Another quick update. Indicator-Sysmonitor has had a couple of new sensors added together with some fixes to the existing CPU sensor.
For the uninitiated, Indicator-Sysmonitor is an App indicator that allows you to select and view a whole range of sensor based information.
- memory
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network speed,
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cpu usage
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file system space usage
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swap space usage
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battery usage
Added to this release are two new sensors:
- upordown: this displays a smiley or unhappy face depending if the sensor detects your internet connection is up-or-down
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publicip: this prints your public facing IP address – useful where you need to understand what your current internet IP address that the outside world sees.
The existing CPU sensor has had an important bug-fix allowing you to see the average CPU percentage usage “{cpu}” together now with the ability to see individual core usage {cpu0}, {cpu1} etc.
Don’t forget, indicator-sysmonitor can also display the output of your own scripts – bash or otherwise. For example; One question I recently answered on the projects GitHub project tracker stated that they use “notify-send” to send a visual notification to the screen via a bash script when the displayed app-indicator value hits a certain value.
One question I couldn’t answer … how do you use indicator-sysmonitor on the lockscreen & the main login greeter. If anyone knows, please let me know 🙂
I use this on Gnome-Shell + AppIndicator extension. Obviously you can use this on Unity together with any other desktop environment that supports application-indicators.
As always – happy to receive any contributions – new sensors etc. Just visit the project web-page.
Installation:
On Ubuntu and derivatives – manual installation
sudo apt-get install python3-psutil, curl git
git clone https://github.com/fossfreedom/indicator-sysmonitor.git
cd indicator-sysmonitor
sudo make install
nohup indicator-sysmonitor &
To remove:
cd indicator-sysmonitor
sudo make uninstall
To install via PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/indicator-sysmonitor
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-sysmonitor
Search in the dash for "indicator-sysmonitor" to run
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