Running Ubuntu 22.04:
First, the System Load Indicator (indicator-multiload) did not respect my preferences to display Memory Usage, which is the only thing I need displayed in the upper bar. I could click on the indicator and a drop down would show me the memory load and other statistics, but I wanted it constantly displayed in the bar. This used to work, before upgrading to 22.04.
Now we come to a more serious problem: I started messing around with the Preference tab for System Load Indicator. I thought increasing the "System Monitor Width" setting above 40 pixels might help. I increased it way more than that, perhaps to 600. The system stopped working. The mouse refused to move. No keystrokes did anything. Eventually, the screen went black and pushed me out to the login page, but upon logging in, the same problems persisted.
I finally tried doing an emergency root login and doing
apt remove indicator-multiload.
Now I could log in and have a normally functioning system. But I wanted the indicator, so I did sudo apt install indicator-multiload,
and the problems returned. Evidently some bad configuration setting had persisted through the removal. So I removed it again, and that's where I am now.
So a few questions:
1) What is the "System Monitor Width" setting in Preferences for, and should it not prevent a catastrophically bad value from being entered?
2) In what file does this application store this preference, so that I might fix it and reinstall the monitor, and run the system?
3) How can I force the indicator to display the memory usage in the top bar as I want to do.
Workaround is here: https:/