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Changes in version 1.5.0

Resources 1.5 has landed and brings with it monitoring for batteries along with the usual bug fixes and improvements. Enjoy!

πŸ› Bug fixes

  • If the Processes view was the last opened view and the β€œShow search fields on launch” setting was enabled, the search bar was not automatically focused
  • Graphs in the sidebar were reset when a drive or network interface was added or removed
  • App icons were not shown for user-wide installed Flatpaks
  • The calculated amount of logical CPUs was wrong for systems with multiple CPU sockets

✨ New features

  • Resources can now monitor connected batteries
  • CPU usage normalization can now be toggled off
  • Total read and write stats for drives

πŸ“ˆ Improvements

  • Graph colors have been revamped to avoid low contrast situations and improve consistency within views
  • Some keyboard shortcuts were changed to avoid clashes with standard shortcuts
  • More stability when performance statistics could not be determined
  • Some entries in the settings dialog now have subtitles
  • If a drive has no model name, its block device name will now be shown in the titlebar
  • Small accessibility improvements
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[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm currently using Mission Center, which is also really good. One of these should replace GNOME's system monitor tho because it honestly kind of sucks.

[–] dko1905@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I find it really nice to use but I experience a lag spike when I open Mission Center.. so that's a bit annoying.

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

Should probably report that to the dev

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'd call gnome system monitor good enough but out of place from a layout perspective. Its looked the same for as long as I can remember

I also personally don't like the mission center layout as much. It feels like they copied Windows for no good reason. However, that's just a personal preference

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They definitely copied Windows but Windows' Task Manager is honestly one of the few things I actually like about Windows. My issues with Gnome System Monitor is that it's missing important information, information isn't easy to read, I don't think there's a way to stop an application and it doesn't look good.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

It probably will be rewritten at some point. For now we have the resources app

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Resources and Mission Centre are both really good. I never know which to use.