Vitals

Vitals is a GNOME Shell 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 top 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 support packages

Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager gir1.2-gtop-2.0 lm-sensors

Fedora

sudo dnf install libgtop2-devel lm_sensors

Arch/Manjaro

sudo pacman -Syu libgtop lm_sensors gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome-icon-theme git

openSUSE

sudo zypper install libgtop-devel

2) Install extension

Ubuntu/Debian

    Open the Extension Manager (installed above), search for Vitals and click Install.

Fedora

    Visit Gnome Extensions website, search for Vitals and click switch (power on) icon.

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Arch/Manjaro

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/gnome-shell-extension-vitals-git.git/
cd gnome-shell-extension-vitals-git

# always verify content before installing
less PKGBUILD
makepkg

# example filename, different each release
pacman -U gnome-shell-extension-vitals-git-v52.0.4.r0.gb446cfc-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

3) Activate after installation

Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora

    At this point, Vitals should be running. If you reversed steps 1 and 2 above, you will need to restart your session by logging out and then back in.

Arch/Manjaro

    Open the Extensions application and toggle on Vitals

Beta testing

Advanced users requesting bug fixes or asking for new features may occasionally be asked to help QA.

1) Remove existing copy of Vitals

    Remove existing copy of vitals - expert users only!

# rm -ri ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Vitals@CoreCoding.com

2) Clone from GitHub

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
git clone https://github.com/corecoding/Vitals.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Vitals@CoreCoding.com -b develop

3) Activate develop version

Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora

    You will need to restart your session by logging out and then back in.

Arch/Manjaro

    Open the Extensions application and toggle on Vitals

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 because of I/O blocking polls, and thus, the idea for Vitals was born! It has been refactored several times over, so most of the code is new or different.

Icons

Original Theme

• (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.

GNOME Theme

• (battery | storage)-symbolic.svg - from Adwaita Icon Theme.
• (memory | network* | system | voltage)-symbolic.svg - from Icon Development Kit.
• fan-symbolic.svg - inherited from Freon project, with mild modifications.
• (temperature | cpu)-symbolic.svg - designed by daudix.

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

| Description | Command | | --- | --- | | Launch preferences | gnome-shell-extension-prefs Vitals@CoreCoding.com | | 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 | | Launch Wayland virtual window | dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --nested --wayland | | Read hot-sensors value | dconf read /org/gnome/shell/extensions/vitals/hot-sensors | | Write hot-sensors value | dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/vitals/hot-sensors "['_memory_usage_', '_system_load_1m_']"<br/>This value configures the list of sensors that show up in the panel. To specify a sensor name, click on the extension to show the drop-down menu, then take the category label and the label of the individual sensor, convert them to snake_case, and format them like this: _category_sensor_.|

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