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What can replace system monitoring in the top Gnome Panel in Unity?

Back when I used gnome-panels, I really liked the System Monitor applet. It let me keep an eye on both my processor and bandwidth, it was light, and it was native. Is there a way to achieve this with the current unity interface?

That little graph was useful in many ways. I could spot misbehaving processes, I could tell when a download finished, I could tell when an update finished, etc.

I'm not looking to install screenlets or any fancy stuff, I'm already running Unity 2D because this netbook isn't that tough. I'm looking for something that shows me a little graph of real-time cpu usage (and bandwidth, if possible), it needs to be permanently visible and it needs to be light.

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closed as exact duplicate by Marco Ceppi♦ Jun 5 '11 at 19:27

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You can download and install a software package (.deb) from

https://launchpad.net/indicator-sysmonitor/+download here. Once installed you will find it under Applications > Accessories > Sysyem Monitor Indicator and it will look like this in Unity; enter image description here

As for monitoring the bandwidth, I'm unsure of a program to suggest.

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Thanks for the tip. The indicator is a little annoying, as it keeps resizing and moving all other icons with it. But I'll go with it if nothing else shows up. – Bruce Connor May 2 '11 at 12:39
Ok, there's been a recent update to this app which made it more stable and a lot less annoying. Complementing that, I changed it to run a custom command dstat -cn --battery 1 1 | tail -1, and now it shows me cpu, net, and battery level. I still miss having a graph to look at, but it's good enough. – Bruce Connor May 9 '11 at 0:18
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This question: List of Application indicators

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