source: gnome/applications/gnome-system-monitor.xml

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gnome-system-monitor-download-http
           "&gnome-download-http;/gnome-system-monitor/&gnome-46;/gnome-system-monitor-&gnome-system-monitor-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY gnome-system-monitor-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY gnome-system-monitor-md5sum        "d2c121f58825bf5a441f16f13b0d3201">
  <!ENTITY gnome-system-monitor-size          "1020 KB">
  <!ENTITY gnome-system-monitor-buildsize     "27 MB">
  <!ENTITY gnome-system-monitor-time          "0.2 SBU (with parallelism=4)">
]>

<sect1 id="gnome-system-monitor" xreflabel="gnome-system-monitor-&gnome-system-monitor-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gnome-system-monitor.html"?>


  <title>gnome-system-monitor-&gnome-system-monitor-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gnome-system-monitor">
    <primary sortas="a-gnome-system-monitor">gnome-system-monitor</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GNOME System Monitor</title>

    <para>
      The <application>GNOME System Monitor</application> package contains
      <application>GNOME</application>'s replacement for
      <command>gtop</command>.
    </para>

    &lfs121_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gnome-system-monitor-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gnome-system-monitor-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &gnome-system-monitor-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &gnome-system-monitor-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &gnome-system-monitor-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &gnome-system-monitor-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GNOME System Monitor Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="adwaita-icon-theme"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtkmm4"/>,
      <xref linkend="itstool"/>,
      <xref linkend="libgtop"/>,
      <xref linkend="libadwaita1"/>, and
      <xref linkend="librsvg"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>,
      <ulink url="&appstream-glib-url;">appstream-glib</ulink>, and
      <ulink url="https://github.com/uncrustify/uncrustify">uncrustify</ulink>
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GNOME System Monitor</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>GNOME System Monitor</application> by running
      the following commands:
    </para>

<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup --prefix=/usr       \
            -Dsystemd=false     \
            --buildtype=release \
            ..                  &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands" revision="sysv">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>-Dsystemd=false</parameter>: This switch ensures that
      gnome-system-monitor does NOT use the systemd process monitoring framework.
      Use this option if you are on a SysV system.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          gnome-system-monitor
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/{libexec,share,share/help/*}/gnome-system-monitor
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gnome-system-monitor-prog">
        <term><command>gnome-system-monitor</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to display the process tree and hardware meters
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gnome-system-monitor gnome-system-monitor-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gnome-system-monitor">gnome-system-monitor</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>