gnome-system-monitor-42.0

Introduction to GNOME System Monitor

The GNOME System Monitor package contains GNOME's replacement for gtop.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.

Package Information

GNOME System Monitor Dependencies

Required

adwaita-icon-theme-43, Gtkmm-3.24.7, itstool-2.0.7, libgtop-2.40.0, and librsvg-2.54.5

Optional

desktop-file-utils-0.26 and appstream-glib

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-system-monitor

Installation of GNOME System Monitor

Install GNOME System Monitor by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr -Dsystemd=false --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Dsystemd=false: This switch ensures that gnome-system-monitor does NOT use the systemd process monitoring framework. Use this option if you are on a SysV system.

Contents

Installed Program: gnome-system-monitor
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/{libexec,share,share/help/*}/gnome-system-monitor

Short Descriptions

gnome-system-monitor

is used to display the process tree and hardware meters