{"id":8738,"date":"2019-03-15T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8738"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:14:21","slug":"display-cpu-memory-network-usage-in-ubuntu-18-04-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/display-cpu-memory-network-usage-in-ubuntu-18-04-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Display CPU \/ Memory \/ Network Usage in Ubuntu 18.04 Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want to monitor Ubuntu system resources usage momentarily? There&#8217;s a gnome extension allows to display <b>CPU usage, Memory usage, network speed, disk, GPU, and battery informations<\/b>  in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome status bar.<\/p>\n<p>The system monitor extension features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Display informations for CPU, GPU, Memory, Swap, Net, Disk, Fan, Battery<\/li>\n<li>Display resource usage in panel via <b>digit<\/b> or <b>graph<\/b><\/li>\n<li>A drop-down menu with detailed information.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to set gragh width, background color, refresh time.<\/li>\n<li>Show tooltips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-extension-600x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-extension-600x364.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-extension-450x273.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-extension.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> To install the extension, first open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application menu.<\/p>\n<p>When it opens, run command to install the necessary system libraries:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0  gir1.2-clutter-1.0<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-libraries-600x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"114\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-libraries-600x114.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-libraries-450x85.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-libraries.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Open <b>Ubuntu Software<\/b> and then search for <b>&#8216;system monitor extension&#8217;<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few similar extensions available. In the case, I installed the last one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-softwarecenter.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-softwarecenter-600x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-softwarecenter-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-softwarecenter-450x265.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-softwarecenter-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-softwarecenter.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> You&#8217;ll see the indicator applet once you installed the extension. Click to show drop-down menu, then go to Preferences and change the applet appearance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-settings-600x302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"302\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-settings-600x302.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-settings-450x227.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-settings-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/systemmonitor-settings.jpg 991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to monitor Ubuntu system resources usage momentarily? There&#8217;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. The system monitor extension features: Display informations for CPU, GPU, Memory, Swap, Net, Disk, Fan, Battery Display resource usage in panel via digit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1671],"class_list":["post-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-resources-usage-indicator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}