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# System Monitor Plasmoid

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Plasmoid to view several items from system Monitor.
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![Preview](images/systemmonitor.png)
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## Requirements

Plasma 5 shell (plasma >= 5.7)

## Installation

### From store.kde.org

1.  Click "Plasma 5 Widgets"
2.  Click "Plasma 5 Monitoring"
3.  Find and Click on "System Monitor Plasmoid"
4.  Click "Files"
5.  Click "Install"

# Configuration

Currently 6 monitor types can be selected.

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Each monitor can be displayed as a bar Graph, a Circular Graph or a Plot Graph.

Colors for each data Item can be selected on the "Colors" tab.

Fast plotting or smooth plotting (More Cpu intensive) 
can be selected for the Plot Graph.

There are options to show borders, 
to show labels (on top or bottem).

What Disks/Partitons to show Space Or acitivity for can be selected in the 
"Disk Space" or "Disk IO" tabs.

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What network devices to show activity for can be selected in the network tab.

Different layouts can be optanined by selecting the number of columns/rows
and layout direction.

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If more monitors are selected than what is allowed by Columns/Rows they will
overlay each other.

# Sample configurations

## Default Configuration

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![Preview](images/systemmonitor.png)
## 4 Columns, 1 Row

![Preview](images/systemmonitor-2.png)
## 2 Columns, 2 Rows

![Preview](images/systemmonitor-3.png)
## 1 Column, 4 Rows

![Preview](images/systemmonitor-4.png)
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## Adding Plasmoid to the desktop more than once with different configurations
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![Preview](images/systemmonitor-1.png)