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ukmjenkins

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Registered: 2024-09-19

Posts: 3

Please can the XFCE Team renew "System Load Indicator", please ?

Hello XFCE Team and Community.

For many years System Load Indicator,
has been an excellent Panel applet,
which I have relied on,
which illustrates, CPU use, RAM use, Net use, and SSD use,
with a real-time coloured moving graphical display.

Since, Xubuntu 24.04 LTS,
I have been able to find and install,
System Load Indicator,
from the Software Centre and Snap,
however, it does not run properly in the Panel.

System Load Indicator,
can be found on Launchpad,
as Indicator Multiload:
https://launchpad.net/indicator-multiload

The project files can be downloaded as tar.gz:
https://launchpad.net/indicator-multiload/+download

Please could the XFCE Team and Community,
please look into renewing System Load Indicator,
so that it works for the present and future XFCE Panel, please ?

The Ubuntu-MATE Team,
have renewed System Load Indicator for their Panel,
and it works really well, as a pre-existing Panel applet,
that is ready to be selected from the Panel Items list.
https://github.com/mate-desktop

Mate Panel applet "Multiload":
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets

Please help.

RSVP.
Best wishes, Michael Jenkins.
Hollingbury. Brighton. UK.
12.40pm Saturday 4 April 2026.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,533

Re: Please can the XFCE Team renew "System Load Indicator", please ?

however, it does not run properly in the Panel.

What do you mean by it not working properly? Are you getting errors? Is it not starting? Wrong information displayed?

It seems to work fine on my Xubuntu 24.04 VM.

Last edited by ToZ (2026-04-04 16:34:17)

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ukmjenkins

Member

Registered: 2024-09-19

Posts: 3

Re: Please can the XFCE Team renew "System Load Indicator", please ?

Hello ToZ, thank you for your reply.
Yes, System Load Indicator does install and run,
however, its display on the Panel is not correct,
and when I click on System Load Indicator in the Panel,
to access its configuration menu,
the menu only appears for a fraction of a second,
and then disappears again.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,533

Re: Please can the XFCE Team renew "System Load Indicator", please ?

Ahh, yes. I see that now as well. You might want to create a bug report, but even if its fixed, its unlikely it will be back-ported to the version of Xfce that you are using.

Have you tried xfce4-systemload-plugin? Its a similar product bundled with Xfce - though the look on the panel is different.

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