Aswathe of interesting system monitor programs has recently become available for Linux. If the Monitor tool that we covered in LXF283 is a little too minimalist for your tastes, you’ll want to take a closer look at System Monitor Center.
The program packs multiple system tools into a single-window GTK application. System Monitor Center has as many as eight sections, of which Performance and Processes cover most features that other Linux monitoring tools usually provide. Under Performance you can find sub-sections with live CPU/disk/RAM graphs, and even thermal sensors. The remaining six sections monitor user sessions, storage information, desktop startup items, Systemd services, environmental variable and detailed system information. Many sections and their views have the gear button for customising elements such as units and the amount of columns on show.