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Ives
Asked: 2018-05-20 05:52:15 +0800 CST

Can I show icons in System Monitor on Ubntu 18.04?

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Without icon is usable, but having icons makes it easier to be distinguished.
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.

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system-monitor 18.04

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  1. Best Answer

    The System Monitor that is pre-installed on Ubuntu 18.04 is installed via the snap package, not from the traditional apt repo. You can verify that by running snap list, the output should contain gnome-system-monitor.

    The snap execution environment doesn't see any of the icons on your system (local or system-wide). So this is somewhat an expected behaviour.

    As a workaround you may remove the snap applications by running

    snap remove gnome-system-monitor

    and install the traditional one by running

    sudo apt install gnome-system-monitor
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