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.
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
- (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.
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_']" |
Donations
Please consider donating if you find this extension useful.