


For the old Ubuntu 18.04, you need to manually refresh package index after adding PPA: sudo apt updateģ.

Type user password when it asks and hit Enter to continue.Ģ. When it opens, run command to add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/indicator-sysmonitor First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. The developer has an Ubuntu PPA contains the packages for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10, and even the next Ubuntu 23.04.ġ. User just need to click the indicator on panel to open ‘Preferences’ dialog from pop-down menu, and format the output code in ‘Advanced’ tab. Most important is that user can customize the output, by setting which one or ones to display, in which order with which text. With it, user can display the usage and/or temperature of the following system resource in top-panel: It’s Indicator-SysMonitor, a free and open-source applet developed by the leader of Ubuntu Budgie team. There are several Gnome Shell extensions to display system resource usage in Ubuntu, but in this tutorial I’m going to introduce an indicator that works in not only GNOME, but also Unity, MATE, and Budgie desktop environments.
