Simple widget for the XFCE desktop panel showing usage graphs for CPU and memory.
There exist a few extensions/plugins for panels that display CPU/Memory usage. But it's hard to come by one that meets all the requirements one would want.
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Efficiency. It would be a useless CPU usage meter if it used a noticeable amount of CPU performance. Once I tried a popular one that made my PC lag every time it took a measurement (it became noticeable while watching youtube videos and something didn't seem right with the video lagging every second (the PC wasn't particularly weak either)).
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Configurability. Allow for multiple colors, graph types etc. for display.
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Extensibility. Show other types of information, such as memory usage, net usage or even information from user provided script (but those are still to be done).
There are surely few that meet some or most of these requirements, and there was one I used on Gnome. However, I wasn't able to find a good one for XFCE, so I made this plugin which at partially satisfies my requirements. Perhaps the remaining features in TODO are to be done some day when I stop procrastinating.
# Prerequisites:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install xfce4-dev-tools \
libxfce4ui-2-dev \
libxfce4panel-2.0-dev \
imagemagick \
libgtk-3-dev
# Download:
git clone https://github.com/Bleskocvok/graphinator.git
# Build:
cd graphinator
sh ./configure
make
sudo bash script/installRight click on the XFCE panel → Panel → Add New Items… → Select Graphinator
- Show net usage (with sensible units, percentage makes little sense)
- Allow for custom monitoring (like
xfce4-genmon-plugin) - Settings for text orientation
- Show grid option
- Show background option
- Show ruler option
- Options to show all cpu cores
Simple bar graph rendering option- More “multigraph” options (e.g., show download & upload using one graph with two colors)
- Package as .deb and potentially other formats
- Show all cpu cores/threads as separate graphs