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.
This is a personal fork of Vitals — not distributed via the GNOME Extensions website, Extension Manager, or AUR. Install it directly from this repo.
sudo apt install gir1.2-gtop-2.0 lm-sensors
sudo dnf install libgtop2-devel lm_sensors
sudo pacman -Syu libgtop lm_sensors gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome-icon-theme git
sudo zypper install libgtop-devel
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
git clone https://github.com/Vigwear/Vitals.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Vitals@vigwear.github.io
glib-compile-schemas --strict ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Vitals\@vigwear.github.io/schemas/
cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Vitals@vigwear.github.io
git pull
glib-compile-schemas --strict schemas/
Then log out and back in.
This fork tracks corecoding/Vitals as
the upstream remote to pull in fixes/features:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/corecoding/Vitals.git
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/main
metadata.json diverges from upstream (fork uuid/url, no donations
block). A custom merge driver auto-resolves it on every merge instead of
conflicting — register it once per clone:
git config merge.vitals-metadata.driver 'scripts/merge-metadata.py %O %A %B'
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.
- (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.
- (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.
Sensor data is obtained from the system using hwmon and GTop. The Vitals authors are not responsible for improperly represented data. No warranty expressed or implied.
| Description | Command |
|---|---|
| Launch preferences | gnome-shell-extension-prefs Vitals@vigwear.github.io |
| 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_']"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_. |