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dmarsh400

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Registered: 2026-02-21

Posts: 7

New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

Hey everyone,

I just made two small panel plugins for XFCE because I really wanted GPU stats in the panel and there wasn’t anything official.

One is a fork of the systemload plugin that adds GPU load/temp/memory:
https://github.com/dmarsh400/xfce4-syst … plugin-gpu

The other is a dedicated gpugraph plugin (like the cpugraph one):
https://github.com/dmarsh400/xfce4-gpugraph-plugin

They’re both for AMD cards using rocm-smi right now, built with Meson, and work on XFCE 4.18+.
Any feedback or testing would be awesome. If the devs like them I’m happy to move the repos to gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins or whatever makes sense.
Thanks!

ninjanilsen

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Registered: 2026-02-26

Posts: 4

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

Hi. Very nice, any chance to get support for nvidia cards?

dmarsh400

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Registered: 2026-02-21

Posts: 7

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

Hi. Very nice, any chance to get support for nvidia cards?

Yes I am working on Nvidia Support right now, Nvidia support is much easier to implement.

Added later 33 min 40 s:
Nvidia Support has been added (different repository) see links below, I will be doing some testing but it should be working properly as nvidia is much easier to implement

https://github.com/dmarsh400/xfce4-syst … gin-nvidia

https://github.com/dmarsh400/gpugraph-plugin-nvidia

ninjanilsen

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Registered: 2026-02-26

Posts: 4

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

Hi. Very nice, any chance to get support for nvidia cards?

Yes I am working on Nvidia Support right now, Nvidia support is much easier to implement.

Added later 33 min 40 s:
Nvidia Support has been added (different repository) see links below, I will be doing some testing but it should be working properly as nvidia is much easier to implement

https://github.com/dmarsh400/xfce4-syst … gin-nvidia

https://github.com/dmarsh400/gpugraph-plugin-nvidia

Nice! Installed and testet ok. Thanks.

dmarsh400

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Registered: 2026-02-21

Posts: 7

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

Beautiful, glad it worked!

ninjanilsen

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Registered: 2026-02-26

Posts: 4

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

Hi. Very nice, any chance to get support for nvidia cards?

Yes I am working on Nvidia Support right now, Nvidia support is much easier to implement.

Added later 33 min 40 s:
Nvidia Support has been added (different repository) see links below, I will be doing some testing but it should be working properly as nvidia is much easier to implement

https://github.com/dmarsh400/xfce4-syst … gin-nvidia

https://github.com/dmarsh400/gpugraph-plugin-nvidia

Nice! Installed and testet ok. Thanks.

It would be wonderful to show gpu memory usage as well.

Last edited by ninjanilsen (2026-02-28 15:42:17)

dmarsh400

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Registered: 2026-02-21

Posts: 7

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

VRAM support for 2 GPUs has been added. please install and test and let me know if it works, if not let me know and I will see what needs to be fixed

ninjanilsen

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Registered: 2026-02-26

Posts: 4

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

VRAM support for 2 GPUs has been added. please install and test and let me know if it works, if not let me know and I will see what needs to be fixed

Installed and tested, works perfectly here. Thank you so much for the swift update!

dmarsh400

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Registered: 2026-02-21

Posts: 7

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

VRAM support for 2 GPUs has been added. please install and test and let me know if it works, if not let me know and I will see what needs to be fixed

Installed and tested, works perfectly here. Thank you so much for the swift update!

Perfect! love that. glad  you are enjoying it

ninakorollova

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Registered: 2026-03-02

Posts: 1

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

Hey everyone,

This is a really nice addition to the XFCE ecosystem 👍
Having GPU monitoring directly in the panel has been missing for a long time, especially for users running lightweight desktop setups where external monitoring tools feel unnecessary.

A fork of the systemload plugin with GPU load, temperature, and memory stats sounds extremely useful, and a dedicated gpugraph plugin similar to cpugraph makes perfect sense from a usability standpoint. Using rocm-smi for AMD cards is also a practical starting point.

It would be great to see:

optional multi-GPU support in the future,

configurable refresh intervals,

and maybe NVIDIA support if feasible later on.

Moving the repositories to the official XFCE GitLab sounds like a natural next step if community testing goes well.

By the way, while looking into Linux tools and hardware discussions recently, I stumbled across some broader tech and digital articles here: https://coinmoneyhub.com — might be interesting for people following hardware trends.

Thanks for contributing to XFCE and sharing your work with the community!

dmarsh400

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Registered: 2026-02-21

Posts: 7

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

Hey everyone,

This is a really nice addition to the XFCE ecosystem 👍
Having GPU monitoring directly in the panel has been missing for a long time, especially for users running lightweight desktop setups where external monitoring tools feel unnecessary.

A fork of the systemload plugin with GPU load, temperature, and memory stats sounds extremely useful, and a dedicated gpugraph plugin similar to cpugraph makes perfect sense from a usability standpoint. Using rocm-smi for AMD cards is also a practical starting point.

It would be great to see:

optional multi-GPU support in the future,

configurable refresh intervals,

and maybe NVIDIA support if feasible later on.

Moving the repositories to the official XFCE GitLab sounds like a natural next step if community testing goes well.

By the way, while looking into Linux tools and hardware discussions recently, I stumbled across some broader tech and digital articles here: https://coinmoneyhub.com — might be interesting for people following hardware trends.

Thanks for contributing to XFCE and sharing your work with the community!

I have added Nvidia supported GPUs, they are separate from the AMD repositories.

I started with AMD because there seems to be less support for AMD due to market share.

Here are the links for Nvidia Graph and System Monitor.

https://github.com/dmarsh400/xfce4-syst … gin-nvidia

https://github.com/dmarsh400/gpugraph-plugin-nvidia

You can update the interval for the graph.

Right click on panel

Go to panel preferences

Go to items tab

Click on GPU graph

Click on wrench icon

Then you can set colors, 2 GPUs and set the colors as well.

Try it out and let me know if it works for you.

I will try to add right click support directly to the GPU graph like other items on the panel. This is still in development.

NerriahOwens

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Registered: 2026-04-03

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Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

GPU graph

GPU graph is not supported???

dmarsh400

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Registered: 2026-02-21

Posts: 7

Re: New panel plugins: GPU support for systemload + dedicated gpugraph

GPU graph

GPU graph is not supported???

Not sure what you mean? Right click support on the panel is not supported so you need to go into panel settings to change the GPU Graph settings.