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Multiload-ng is a GTK2 graphical system monitor application that can be integrated into the desktop panels of Xfce, LXDE and MATE. It fork from the original GNOME Multiload application. It can also run in a separate window.

The characteristics of Multiload-ng are:

Graphics blocks that support the following resources: CPU, memory, network, swap space, average load, disk, and temperature

Highly customizable

Support for color schemes

Automatically adapt to changes in containers (panels or windows)

Extremely low CPU and memory footprint

Provide basic or detailed tips

The action triggered by double click can be customized.

Compared to the original Multiload application, Multiload-ng contains an additional graphics block (temperature), as well as more independent graphics customization options, such as independent border colors, support for color schemes, can respond to mouse clicks according to custom actions, and the orientation of the graphics block can be set independent of the orientation of the panel.

It can also run in a separate window without the need for panels:

In addition, its GitHub page says it will bring more graphics block support.

The following figure shows how the application works horizontally and vertically in Xubuntu 16.04 with a vertical panel:

The app's preferences window is not very good-looking, but there are plans to improve it:

Multiload-ng currently uses GTK2, so it does not work in a Xfce or MATE desktop environment (dashboard) built from GTK3.

For Ubuntu systems, only Ubuntu MATE 16.10 uses GTK3. But since MATE's system monitor application is also a branch of Multiload GNOME, most of them have the same functionality (except for the additional customization options and temperature graphics blocks provided by Multiload-ng).

The application's wish list mentions plans to support GTK3 integration and various improvements, such as more sources of temperature block data, capable of displaying decimal (KB, MB, GB...) Or binary (KiB, MiB, GiB.) Units and so on.

Install Multiload-ng

Please note that Multiload-ng cannot be built on Lubuntu 14.04 because of dependencies.

Multiload-ng is available in the main PPA of WebUpd8 (for Ubuntu 14.04-16.04 / Linux Mint 17.x and 18). You can use the following command to add PPA and update the software source:

Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 sudo apt update

You can then install the application using the following command:

For LXDE (Lubuntu):

Sudo apt install lxpanel-multiload-ng-plugin

For Xfce (Xubuntu,Linux Mint Xfce):

Sudo apt install xfce4-multiload-ng-plugin

For MATE (Ubuntu MATE,Linux Mint MATE):

Sudo apt install mate-multiload-ng-applet

Stand-alone installation (no integration into the panel is required):

Sudo apt install mate-multiload-ng-applet

Once installed, it can be added to the desktop panel like other applications. It is important to note that in LXDE, Multiload-ng does not immediately appear in the panel list unless the panel is restarted. You can restart the panel by restarting the session (log out and then logging in) or by using the following command:

Sudo apt install mate-multiload-ng-applet

Stand-alone Multiload-ng applications can be launched from the menu like other normal applications.

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