A beautifull, lightweight, highly customizable X-system monitor – Conky. Works on my Xfce and LXDE Xubuntu install.
Add to Start-up Applications “$ conky -d”, which in Xubuntu will be located here: ~/.config/autostart/conky.desktop
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=0.9.4 Type=Application Name=Conky Monitor Comment=System Monitor Exec=conky -d StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false
My ~/.conkyrc (borrowed mostly from a post on ubuntuforums.org): :
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont HandelGotD:size=9
xftalpha 0.5
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 200 5
maximum_width 200
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color white
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green
alignment top_right
gap_x 12
gap_y 48
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale noTEXT
$sysname $kernel on $machineUptime $alignr $uptime
Load $alignr $loadavgHostname $alignr $nodename
eth0 $alignr ${addr eth0}Inbound $alignr ${downspeed eth0} kb/s
${downspeedgraph eth0}
Outbound $alignr ${upspeed eth0} kb/s
${upspeedgraph eth0}$processes processes ($running_processes running)
CPU $alignr ${cpu cpu0}%
${cpubar cpu0}MEM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membarswap $alignc $swap / $swapmax $alignr $swapperc%
${swapbar}/ $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /}%
${fs_bar /}/home $alignc ${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /home}%
${fs_bar /home}