System76 Launches COSMIC System Monitor With 8 Real-Time Metric Views
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Updated · ZDNet · Jul 2
System76 Launches COSMIC System Monitor With 8 Real-Time Metric Views
1 articles · Updated · ZDNet · Jul 2
Summary
System76 has introduced COSMIC System Monitor, a lightweight app built for the COSMIC Desktop that shows real-time performance data and process activity without the heavier interface of many rival tools.
8 core views anchor the app—applications, processes, CPU, memory, disk, network, GPU and temperature—with expandable detail panes for per-core utilization, swap use, network throughput, disk read/write speeds and GPU VRAM.
Process controls are built in: users can open the Processes panel and choose Quit or Force Quit on misbehaving tasks, making the tool both a monitor and a basic troubleshooting utility.
Customization is limited to 3 theme options—Match desktop, Dark and Light—and using it outside COSMIC is possible but requires compiling from source with Rust, cargo, just and development libraries.