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Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-system-monitor

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gnome/gnome-system-monitor
• Owner: GNOME
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2012-06-03T03:01:16.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-01T16:57:45.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-07T12:49:57.905Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-system-monitor
• Size: 27.3 MB
• Stars: 82
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 30
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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# 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](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-2.0/)

## 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-2.68-dev libgtkmm-4.0-dev libgtop2-dev librsvg2-dev libxml2-dev libadwaita-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 glibmm2.68-devel gtkmm4.0-devel libgtop2-devel librsvg2-devel libxml2-devel libadwaita-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