System Monitor Cosmic Applet

A highly configurable system resource monitor for the COSMIC DE

The instructions for configuring are located in the documentation

Installing

You can just grab the .deb, .rpm or tarball from the releases page, or install from the COSMIC Flatpak Repository.

Building from source

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/D-Brox/cosmic-ext-applet-system-monitor 
cd cosmic-ext-applet-system-monitor 

Install the build dependencies (or equivalent packages in non debian-based distros):

• rustc/cargo
• just
• libxkbcommon-dev

Build and install the project:

just build-release
sudo just install 
# or
just install-local

For alternative packaging methods, use the one of the following recipes:

• deb: run just build-deb and sudo just install-deb
• rpm: run just build-rpm and sudo just install-rpm

For vendoring, use just vendor and just vendor-build

Roadmap

Theming:

• [x] Layout
• [x] Custom colors
• [ ] Transparency

Resource monitoring:

• [x] CPU usage (global and per core)
• [x] Memory usage (RAM and Swap)
• [x] Network I/O
• [x] Disk I/O
• [x] GPU (usage and VRAM)
• [ ] Thermal sensors

Component views

• [x] Run chart views (percentage and I/O)
• [x] Bar chart views (percentage and CPU cores)
• [ ] Text views
• [ ] Popup (general system info)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome

To build and install the debug build

just build-debug && sudo just debug=1 install

Special Thanks

• paradoxxxzero for their GNOME Shell system monitor extension, the inspiration for this applet
• edfloreshz for the template for COSMIC applets, which taught me the logic behind an applet
• aschiavon91 for their initial work at a system status applet, which was used as a reference implementation