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.
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
Visit Gnome Extensions website, search for Vitals and click switch icon
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
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.
Advanced users requesting bug fixes or asking for new features may occasionally be asked to help QA.
# rm -ri ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/Vitals@CoreCoding.com
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
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 becaus 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.
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.
| 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_']" |