Now the command you just added will be available in the list of sensors. To do that click on the New button in the Advanced tab of the Preferences window, and in the window that pops up, enter a command identifier, its description, and the command itself in the three fields. You can do that by adding the whoami command to the application. Suppose you want to print the username associated with the current effective user ID on the panel. The Indicator-Sysmonitor application also lets you display output of custom commands and scripts, which means that if you want to monitor the output of one of your scripts or a command, you can do that using this application. Similarly, you can add various available parameters to display and monitor information related to them. So, you can see that the application output now contains network-related information. The output should be something like this: Once done, click the Test button to see the effect (and Save to save the new setting). So to do this, I’ll add the text network: to the “Customize output” box:Īlternatively, you can also click the Add button present at the bottom right after selecting “net” in the “Sensors” box.

It’s not difficult to understand that the text present in the “Customize output” box is responsible for the CPU and memory information that is displayed by default on the panel, and the “Sensors” section contains the complete list of system-monitoring parameters that you can use.įor example, suppose I want to display network-related information on the panel. To learn and understand what other information it can display, click on the panel where the information is being displayed and then click on Preferences.Ĭlick the Advanced tab and you’ll see all the available options: This is the information that the app displays by default. FeaturesĪs soon as you launch the application, you’ll see that the CPU and memory-related information is displayed on the panel (see image below). Once the application is installed, you can run it by launching “System monitor indicator” from Dash.

Sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install indicator-sysmonitor Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom /indicator-sysmonitor

Ubuntu ram monitor