TopHat is an elegant system resource monitor for the GNOME shell. It displays CPU, memory, and network activity in the GNOME top bar.
Install TopHat from the GNOME Shell extensions page.
- GNOME 3.38 or newer
- The gtop system monitoring library (e.g., 'libgtop' on Debian-based systems, likely already installed as part of GNOME)
- GIRepository (gir) bindings for the gtop system monitoring library (e.g., 'gir1.2-gtop-2.0' on Debian-based systems)
- CenOS Stream 9
- Debian 11.4
- Fedora 36
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
To view logged output, use the command journalctl -f -o cat /usr/bin/gnome-shell.
To simulate heavy system load, use the stress-ng tool, e.g. stress-ng --timeout 10s --cpu 8.
To install manually:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
ln -s [path to tophat repository] ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/tophat@fflewddur.github.io
TopHat is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. See the license file for details.
TopHat was designed and written by Todd Kulesza, with much inspiration from the GNOME system-monitor extension and iStat Menus.
The images in the 'icons' directory are derived works from thenounproject.com and used under the Creative Commons Attribution license. The authors of each original work are:
icons/cpu.svg: jai
icons/mem.svg: Loudoun Design Co.
icons/net.svg: Pixel Bazaar
All icons were edited to make them more legible at small sizes.