COSMIC Vitals

A minimal configurable applet to display basic system resource usage, i.e. CPU, Memory, Network.

This came from wanting a project to build to learn some Rust, being a Pop_OS COSMIC user and not finding other applets that worked as I wanted. Hopefully, the code in the repo will be useful to for those fighting with iced/libcosmic, etc.

Features

• Show CPU Usage
• Show RAM Usage
• Show Network upload / download. This filters out virtual devices so won't count upload / download twice when using a VPN, etc.
• Show Disk upload / down. This counts reads / writes to logical disks, not partitions, etc.
• Horizontal / Vertical Layouts - The horizontal layout has seen a little more testing as I don't use the vertical.
• Config:
  • Read Intervals - How often each monitor is polled
  • Max Samples - The number of samples to keep to average the readings across
  • Show / Hide each monitor
  • Show / Hide the labels for each monitor
  • Label Colours - The colours can be selected from the current theme libcosmic palette
  • Label Text - The label text for each monitor
  • Switch between SI and IEC units

Screenshots

Horizontal Layout Example 1

Horizontal Layout Example 2

Horizontal Layout Example 3

Vertical Layout

Main Settings Page

Network Settings Page

General Settings Page

Install

To install your COSMIC applet, you will need just, if you're on Pop!_OS, you can install it with the following commands:

sudo apt install just libxkbcommon-dev

After just has been installed, navigate to the root of the cosmic-ext-applet-vitals project and install the applet with these commands:

just build-release
sudo just install

Then you can add the applet to the panel / dock as usual.