System Load Indicator

graphs not displaying on gnome 3, xfce

Bug #861637 reported by Charlie DeTar
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System Load Indicator
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Bug Description

Using gnome 3 (either classic or gnome-shell) or xfce4, the indicator shows a "broken image" icon and no graphs. The textual percentages in the drop down menu work properly, however.

I'm testing using Ubuntu Oneiric beta. The indicator seems to work properly under Unity in oneiric.

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Charlie DeTar (cfd+lp) wrote :

This appears to be fixed after recent updates.

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w-sky (w-sky) wrote :

Tested with Ubuntu 12.04:

With Gnome 3, System Load Indicator does not show up in the panel, but instead in the notification area on the bottom right! This is quite useless, because this notification area only appears when the mouse is over it. Furthermore, the notification area seems to allow only one graph to be displayed, and its width must be not too wide (20 pixels is ok, 30 is not). If you try to have a wider display or multiple graphs, then the icon becomes tiny, invisible or messed up.

With Unity, System Load Indicator does not display at all at first, but you can change a panel setting with dconf to make it visible. Then it is working quite fine but needs a lot of CPU time (I will file a new bug report about that).

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gcc (chris+ubuntu-qwirx) wrote :

Agree with @w-sky. I'm used to having 5 charts displayed, which makes the width of the applet ~100px. Now it's trying to squeeze into a tray icon slot, ~24px wide, which makes it only 2 pixels high! Not very readable or useful.

Please could we have the option back to make this applet an independent, movable panel applet instead of a tray icon? Or else have multiple icons, one for each graph?

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