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How to monitor your computer from your desktop

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UPDATED to Ubuntu 20.10 As you see, system-monitor is not more available in Ubuntu 18.10 For this reason, I search another utility to monitor my system and I find conky. It is a very personalizable tool that you can install with snap: sudo apt install conky Now, you need to configure it as you like, with you specific interfaces names, in /etc/conky/conky.conf Here is my first configuration: conky.config = {   use_spacer = 'left',   pad_percents = 3,   background = false,   double_buffer = true,   font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10',   use_xft = true,   alignment = 'top_right',   gap_x = 50,   gap_y = 200,   own_window_argb_visual = true,   own_window_argb_value = 0,   own_window_type = 'normal',   own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,sticky',   own_window = true,   update_interval = 5.0, } conky.text = [[ #\${color orange}Hostname: \${color}\${nodename} ${color...