System Monitor
GNOME System Monitor is a GNOME process viewer and system monitor with an attractive, easy-to-use interface, It has features, such as a tree view for process dependencies, icons for processes, the ability to hide processes that you don't want to see, graphical time histories of CPU/memory/swap usage, the ability to kill/renice processes needing root access, as well as the standard features that you might expect from a process viewer.
License
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0. Learn more
Building
The steps described below show how to compile and install Gnome-System-Monitor from its source.
Install required dependencies
To build the application, the following dependencies are required:
apt-get (Debian/Ubuntu/derivatives - deb-based package management)
Use the following command to install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install meson gettext appstream-util itstool libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libgtop2-dev librsvg2-dev libxml2-dev libhandy-1-dev libsystemd-dev
dnf (Fedora/Centos/etc - rpm-based package management)
Use the following command to install dependencies:
sudo dnf install meson gettext appstream itstool glibmm24-devel gtkmm30-devel libgtop2-devel librsvg2-devel libxml2-devel libhandy1-devel systemd-devel
Optional dependencies:
- polkit - recommended
- gksu2
- libgnomesu
- libselinux
- lsb_release in PATH - recommended on linux
- libwnck
Building and installing
Before following the steps below, clone the repository and change to its working directory.
Configure and create the build directory with Meson.
meson build
Where build
is just a directory name, and is up to your chosing.
Build the application - this compiles the source.
ninja -C build
Install the application on your system - required to run Gnome-System-Monitor.
ninja -C build install
Cleanup
Use the following command to clean up the build directory and remove old build files.
ninja -C build -t clean
Remove the build directory to rebuild from scratch.
rm -rf build
Bugs
Please file System-Monitor bugs at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-system-monitor/issues