Disk Space

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Displays the usage of a filesystem or RAM.

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Disk Space Desklet

  • displays the usage of a filesystem, swap or RAM
  • thick, thin and compact design

Installation

  • please make sure the "Ubuntu" font is installed

Remote File System

You can also monitor a remote filesystem (via SSH/SMB). You only need to mount the filesystem from within your file manager (e.g. Nemo) and set the "Filesystem to be monitored" in the desklet seetings to the mount point of the remote file system.

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OCTOGONE.dev
OCTOGONE.dev-2 months ago
I love this desklets Work well on Mint 21.3. Can you do the same design, for CPU /GPU temp + load? I'll support ou financialiy for that.
QQJemRun
QQJemRun-8 months ago
Hello,this time I update this desklet,something unlucky happened to me that,,,it no longer works to monitor RAM or swap as it tell me "not found".Could you help for this? Linux Mint : 21.2 Cinnamon : 5.8.4 linux kernel : 5.15.0-78-generic
krasotaa
krasotaa-1 year ago
This applet loses text alignment whenever the computer resumes from sleep.
retroOnion
retroOnion-1 year ago
How to make transparent background ?
Grysu-Feuermelder
Doesn't work! RAM shows 48% of 49.8 G used. Systemmonitor shows 12.7% of 29.3GB used. Only root Filesystem is diplayed correctly. Can't switch to other filesystems. OS: Linux Mint 21 x86_64 Kernel: 5.15.0-48-generic DE: Cinnamon 5.4.12
siarheirdn
siarheirdn-1 year ago
Does not work. I see free 6GB from 6.3GB ) but I have 16GB and free command also shows 16GB
richo
richo-2 years ago
gracias!. (thanks).
didiersandra
didiersandra-2 years ago
Today i got inspired to make this already great desklet even better by adding another visual style on my computer at home. I made adjustments to the code for the desklet, adjusted the settings schema and updated the pot file along with a dutch translation. After a restart of Cinnamon it all works as I intended. My question is, would anybody have some interest in a new visual style? However, as github and contributing is totaly new for me, i have to find out how to do it properly, it looks complicated at first sight and i like a straightforward way of doing things without frills. My motivation for the new visual style arose when i selected one of the included backgrounds of Cinnamon (Linux Mint) and i felt even the thin design still appeared out of place, so i made one with a thin line instead, thickness is about one-third of the thin design. Kind regards...
one-up1
one-up1-2 years ago
It shows "Used and total"/"Total and used" and "Free and total"/"Total and free" but I know my total amount of RAM, I want to see "Used and free".
mogators
mogators-2 years ago
I have set a custom desklet label and have decorations turned on, but do not get a text label.
Ed
Ed-2 years ago
A very useful desklet - thank you. Have you considered setting the circle color relative to usage? Something like... <= 75% - Green >75 and <= 90% - Yellow >90 - Red I suppose in the best of all worlds, the thresholds could be user-set, but that's certainly more effort. I have version 1.13, and poked around a bit in the 'desklet.js' code. Itt seems that this could be implemented near line 181 (just after the percentString evaluation), or in the redraw function where now random circle colors are set. Just a thought!
Ed
Ed-2 years ago
Probably obvious, but I was referring primarily to disk space usage, though something similar might work for RAM and swap as well.
Boored-Dude
Boored-Dude-3 years ago
I really like this desklet. But is is possible to include a dark shadow to the text in the app? Preferential to be an option to switch on oder off. It would highly increase the visibility over bright backgrounds. Thank you for your work! App-Version 1.12 (2020-10-28 19:40:00)
Jonatan Poveda
Jonatan Poveda-3 years ago
Having no swap and configuring a desklet to monitor swap makes Cinnamon crash. In case it helps, my `free` output looks like: ``` total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 8092336 2524796 1300196 686140 4267344 4584788 Swap: 0 0 0 ```
Georg
Georg-3 years ago
Hi, this is fixed in v1.11
pcolamar
pcolamar-3 years ago
Hi, I have a HPZ420 with 48GB of RAM but the applet shows only 12GB available. The used figure is correct. Any suggestion on how to fix it ? Tanks Palmer (Mint 19.03)
ChooChooAl
ChooChooAl-4 years ago
The current version is 1.5 and I only know that from metadata.json file in the program. It would be nice to see that in the about window rather than the date updated.
frank-leitner
frank-leitner-4 years ago
I just noticed that using paths or labels with spaces in it leads to an empty desklet. Might be some quoting is missing somewhere around line 165, but my JS skills are lousy enough that I don't see where.
Georg
Georg-4 years ago
Thanks for reporting. v1.6 fixes this issue.
g3d3n
g3d3n-4 years ago
It crushed after an update
rmleonard
rmleonard-4 years ago
I've set up two instances of the desklet - one for disk space one for RAM --- no complaints on the Disk Space.. but RAM seems odd and way off - I looked at the js code.. and you are using "free".. you may be better off using /proc/meminfo (this is where 'free' gets its information) --- the values you might want to use are "MemTotal"(total), "Mapped"(used), "MemAvailable"(free).... if you stay with 'free' , I think a better choice is to use "available" instead of "free" for the amount of 'unused' memory..... I tried altering the code in $HOME/.local/share/cinnamon/diskspace@schorschii/desklet.js lines 156 and 169..... didn't work --- so... help please ?
Georg
Georg-4 years ago
Please have a look at v1.5. The new version should fix this issue.
g3d3n
g3d3n-4 years ago
With RAM cal. everything seems to be wrong after installing updates
Georg
Georg-4 years ago
I fixed this bug in v1.5
Ataíde Neto
Ataíde Neto-4 years ago
Same here!
ChooChooAl
ChooChooAl-4 years ago
Great desklet but I'm showing 50% with 13.1 G used on 27.9 G partition. The Math is off, should be closer to 46-47%.
Georg
Georg-4 years ago
Thanks for reporting. This is fixed now in the latest version.
PizzaDude
PizzaDude-4 years ago
Same issue as naui11, also on Fedora 30.
naui11
naui11-4 years ago
Under Fedora 30 i got "Cinnamon warning: Log level 128: posix_spawn avoided (fd close requested) (child_setup specified)" every 5 seconds only for each of this desklet. All other desklets havn't the problem. Possibly a recompile will fix it.
Allespro
Allespro-4 years ago
Hi, can someone help, how can i change circle colors?
Georg
Georg-4 years ago
Hi, just right click on the desklet -> "Configure" -> "Use a custom circle color"
Raphael Batista Fontão
After updating, I can't add it to desktop. There is an yellow exclamation in extension with message "Something went wrong while loading diskspace@schorschii. Be sure you're using the latest version and, after that, report this problem to developer."
Omar Ali
Omar Ali-5 years ago
Very nice and helpful, it lets me keep a track of my memory usage and how much programs affect that.
Zakhil
Zakhil-5 years ago
Nice. Only issues are that the File System usage doesnt work when changing langauges in Mint, and it ony shows usage per folder and not of the complete drive.
83c577nbybd8zb
83c577nbybd8zb-5 years ago
Love this, especially now that most of the conky's don't work with the latest conky release. How do you make the gray area (unused area) completely transparent??? So the only part that shows is the color and the numbers. Thanks!
Georg
Georg-4 years ago
Thanks! In the latest version you can uncheck "Draw free space" in the desklet settings to make the gray area completely transparent.