"Plugins" to monitor the hardware in your system.
There are 4 widgets in total and each has a panel that appears after hovering:
- CPU
- GPU
- Memory
- Fans
Panel view:
On hover:
To get started you need the XFCE panel xfce4-panel and the Generic Monitor plugin xfce4-genmon-plugin. Additionally, you will need lm-sensors for the CPU temperature and the fans. To make use of the GPU monitor you need nvidia-smi which is installed with the CUDA driver for NVIDIA graphics card. Unfortunately, this script won't work on AMD GPUs, however by taking a look at how I have the NVIDIA tracker set up should be pretty easy to configure of AMD as well.
To install, clone this repository git clone https://github.com/kvidelov/hardware-monitor-xfce.git. Next, for each plugin you want to use, you need to copy the absolute path of that shell script (hardware-monitor-xfce\widgets\) and add to a horizontal Generic Monitor bash /absolute/path/to/widget.sh. Then you can adjust font size, font and the period of how often you want the widget to get refreshed, personally I use 1-2 seconds for all widgets with Waree Bold 10.
Check lm-sensors and see how your components are labeled, it is possible that you have different chipset and thus different labels. Usually, the fans are just labeled as fan x and fan 2 is the CPU Cooler, if you have more fans than me feel free to add those. For the CPU temperature, I use the SMBUSMASTER temperature because it provides the most reliable values directly from the processor.
Lastly, as long as you have nvidia-smi the GPU tracker should work properly without the need for any adjustments.
I decided to make the "plugins" after getting inspired by seeing this repository xfce4-genmon-scripts.