What alternatives exist for Plasma System Monitor?
Plasma System Monitor consumes too much memory (200 MiB for Plasma System Monitor vs. 39 MiB for KSysGuard) and other resources, but provides nothing better than KSysGuard.
KSysGuard5 is not avilable for Leap 16.0:
https://software.opensuse.org/package/ksysguard5
KSysGuard6 is not avilable for Leap 16.0:
https://software.opensuse.org/package/ksysguard6
Ksysguard6 code:
I asked for KSysGuard5 and KSysGuard6 via big report: 1258795.
If you need it, maybe look at building yourself?
At first I will listen to developers.
So, why would someone build a deprecated/forked/unsupported product for a release?
Maybe @sfalken has some thougts?
Perhaps look at Conky and Lua scripts?
Users rejection of Plasma System Monitor and need for KSysGuard is a well-known situation for KDE, since KDE 5.
Users want KSysGuard, but KDE developers thrust down the throat Plasma System Monitor.
We can get this via Experimental repo, no need to put it in the Main repo.
This is possible.
Also I use Wayland, IDK how Conky works with it.
Which users want to use the deprecated KSysGuard GUI? plasma6-systemmonitor utilizes libksysguard6 under the hood. It is even a hard dependency.
Even in Plasma 5 (Leap 15.6) plasma5-systemmonitor was already the default and ksysguard5 was not installed by default. ksysguard was alread phased out in Plasma 5.
Claiming that some users want to use unmaintained stuff in a modern distribution is kind of strange…
AFAIK, conky works fine, I had it running a number of years ago… On GNOME I use Astra monitor extension which provides plenty of info.
With lua integration it offers lots of tweaking…
How to install:
https://www.electricbrain.com.au/pages/desktop-datacenter-software/install-deprecated-ksysguard.php
Users opinions:
https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1bulb1g/ksysguard_missing_on_tumbleweed/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/ukcj02/what_happened_to_ksysguard_for_kubuntu_2204/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/17f12bq/i_miss_ksysguard/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1dc1mr6/ksysguard_dying_feels_like_the_start_of_the_end/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/nyuz4x/i_really_like_these_feature_from_ksysguard_i_hope/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/u9sws7/just_installed_kubuntu_2204_and_i_cant_use_the/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/get-back-ksysguard-4175716628-print/
All these links are old. It is the usual moaning and complaining of users which are against ANY change. Everything was better in the past in their opinion. These users often did not even spent a minute to have a look at the new solution. These links are so outdated, that they are comically wrong in some way now. systemmonitor has more features now as ksysguard had…
It is hard to discuss such ancient views on a technical basis.
Plasma System Monitor consumes 200 MB. KSysGuard5 consumes 40 MB. I have 2 GIB RAM on tablet PC, 128 MiB goes to VRAM, 1.8 GiB is available. Memory is unupgradeable.
I don’t want to waste 160 MB of RAM (= 9%) on unneeded thing.
Also see Bug 1258794 - Running Plasma System Monitor (plasma6-systemmonitor) causes excessive CPU load on X11 (KDE 6).
This is technical basis.
Now I have to downgrade to htop or use some alternative (Conky, …).
This is also deprecated…you should have a look at the maintained alternative called Wayland.
This is the absolute minimum hardware requirement for Plasma 6. This system seems not suitable for a fully fledged, modern desktop environment. For such slim hardware, you also should use a slim desktop environment. Gnome and Plasma are not the first choice for such old and minimal systems.
I mean, I can’t speak for the openSUSE-KDE maintainers, but I’m certainly not inclined to package it. Plasma System Monitor works fine for Me, and I’ve not heard any complaints from any of my Kalpa users.
In fact, KDE 6 glitches and restarts with default settings on system with 2 GiB of RAM.
I have to enable zswap (+ MGLRU) to get it working properly.
So, proper ‘absolute minimum hardware requirement for Plasma 6’ is 3 GiB of RAM (with default settings).
I need DE for tablet PC with touch screen with onscreen (virtual) keyboard.
KDE 5 works better on 2 GiB RAM than KDE 6.