MX Service Manager GUI

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

I have discovered that my MX23 , which runs the sysVinit init system, has a GUI Service Manager, just like Antix, which I presume it is derived from

The running services are shown in green
So you can start or stop daemons with a single click.
It does not seem to have an ‘Add’ button, I presume , if you install a new service, it picks up the sysVinit script automatically and lists it. If you look in /etc/init.d you see all the sysVinit scripts listed in the GUI window.

To find the above window do
Applications → MxTools → MX Service Manager

Do any other distros have this?

[xahodo (Xander H)]

This is a really clean and simple solution. Love it. I wish Linux Mint had something like this.

[Rosika (Rosika Schreck)]

Hi Neville,

Linux Lite comes with system-monitoring-center.
There´s a “Services” tab there, too:

I guess it cannot compete with the functionality of MX´s Service Manager GUI.

Many greetings from Rosika

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@Rosika

cannot compete with the functionality

It seems to tell you what is running… ie it is a monitor.
The next step is to become a controller or a manager.

I think the MX setup is only just a manager… there is more it could do.

For some reason, services or init systems missed out when everything went GUI.

[Rosika (Rosika Schreck)]

Hi Neville,

@nevj

It seems to tell you what is running… ie it is a monitor.

Yes, more or less.

Right-clicking on any item still gives you a few options:

• start
• stop
• restart
• reload
• enable
• disable
• mask

Plus:

• details
  … which also provides a list of dependencies (requires, conflicts, after, before)

Cheers from Rosika

[Sheila_Flanagan]

I meant to mention this when I found it a few months back. I have never seen a service manager in Linux. It was when I was looking at how to write a script for the etesync-dav service since I was new to sysV init.

Definitely a plus in my book as it is simple to select the service and see the script.

Sheila

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@Rosika

Right-clicking on any item still gives you a few options:

• start
• stop
• restart
• reload
• enable
• disable
• mask

Plus:

• details
  … which also provides a list of dependencies (requires, conflicts, after, before

That is more than a monitor. You can start, stop, enable, disable, etc.
That is the full deal… a proper Service Manager
So the list of service managers with gui now is

• Linux Lite
• MX
• Antix
• OpenSUSE (provided by YaST)

Any more hiding out there?

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@xahodo

I wish Linux Mint had something like this.

There is hope. Linux Lite has it, and Lite is in the Ubuntu family.
You might be able to import it to Mint
Why not give it a try?

or
You might be able to import the MX one into LMDE… they are both Debian based.

[Ambuj_Yadav]

But not systemD I guess. (OP mentioned SysVinit)

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@Ambuj_Yadav

not systemD I guess

You mean in MX?
No, there is no gui service manager for systemd in MX
Linux Lite and OpenSUSE have systemd, so you can get systemd with a gui service manager, if you look around.

[daniel.m.tripp (Dan Tripp)]

There’s a Gnome Shell extension “Systemd Manager” - but it doesn’t do much - I think you have to configure it :

GitHub - hardpixel/systemd-manager: GNOME Shell extension to manage systemd...

I installed it from the extensions and it’s empty - if I want to use it - I have to add systemd services to it…

Still easier for me to just run from the terminal…

[Rosika (Rosika Schreck)]

Hi Neville and all,

@nevj

Linux Lite has it, and Lite is in the Ubuntu family.

Yes, system-monitoring-center is in the Ubuntu repositories:

env LANG=en_GB:en apt-cache show system-monitoring-center
Package: system-monitoring-center
Version: 6.8.1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Jerry Bezencon <valtam@linuxliteos.com>
Installed-Size: 1975
Depends: python3-gi, python3:any, bash (>= 4.4), dmidecode, iproute2, mesa-utils, hwdata, python3 (>= 3.6), python3-cairo, python3-gi-cairo, systemd, util-linux (>= 2.31)
Homepage: https://github.com/hakandundar34coding/system-monitoring-center
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Filename: pool/main/s/system-monitoring-center/system-monitoring-center_6.8.1_all.deb
Size: 202766
SHA256: a586b281074b21f27f8368ba9efa06e8be26160678fdc6ebf1637710089f81ac
SHA1: 3803a0b3ae0b5bcc7014bde05b3931d6d78e2248
MD5sum: 923c810e321060c3ed0dc72fc56d5c0b
Description: Provides information about system performance and usage.
 Provides information about CPU/RAM/Disk/Network/GPU performance, sensors,
 processes, users, storage, startup programs, services, environment variables
 and system.
Description-md5: d8081e203d0dfbcbdd07e2a1d8a5165e

Should be easy to install, I think.

Cheers from Rosika

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@daniel.m.tripp

Gnome Shell extension “Systemd Manager

I had a look, yes it seems to manage services
So the list has grown to

• Linux Lite
• Ubuntu and derivatives ( install deb file from sourceforge)(system-monitoring-center package) ( would probably work in Debian and derivatives too)
• MX
• Antix
• OpenSUSE (provided by YaST)
• Gnome shell extension (Systemd manager)

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@Rosika

, system-monitoring-center is in the Ubuntu repositories:

Hi Rosika,
Thanks… I added Ubuntu to the list
Regards
Neville

[Rosika (Rosika Schreck)]

Hi all,

for system-monitoring-center you might like to take a look at
@Ankush_Das ´s article here:

System Monitoring Center is an Ideal Task Manager & Resource Monitor for...

Cheers from Rosika

[Rosika (Rosika Schreck)]

Hi Neville,

I may have spoken too soon.

@Rosika

Maintainer: Jerry Bezencon <valtam@linuxliteos.com>

Jerry Bezencon is the creator of Linux Lite.

Searching in ubuntu packages I got this result:

You have searched for system-monitoring-center in packages names and descriptions in all suites, all sections, and all architectures (including subword matching).

Sorry, your search gave no results

Still, for installation see my previous post #15.

Cheers from Rosika

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@Rosika

I may have spoken too soon

I modified my list, thanks.
I assume this package would work in Debian too?

[Rosika (Rosika Schreck)]

@nevj

I assume this package would work in Debian too?

Yes, it should be doable.

Here it says:

System Monitoring Center supports Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and other Linux operating systems. However, the app isn’t included in any software repositories. Instead, it must be downloaded from the official website and installed.

and:

Debian

System Monitoring Center works on Debian, but you’ll have to download the official DEB package to get it set up. To get your hands on System Monitoring Center on Debian, use the following wget download command.

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/system-monitoring-center/files/v1.1.0/system-monitoring-center_1.1.0_all.deb/download -O ~/Downloads/system-monitoring-center_1.1.0_all.deb

Once the DEB package is downloaded, install it using the dpkg command on your computer. This command will set up the package on Debian.

cd ~/Downloads/

sudo dpkg -i system-monitoring-center_1.1.0_all.deb

When the package is set up on your computer, you must correct any dependency issues during the installation process.

sudo apt-get install -f

Cheers from Rosika

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@xahodo

. I wish Linux Mint had something like this.

It is starting to look like you can get system-monitoring-center in to Mint.
All you need is to download the .deb package and install it
See @Rosika 's replies

[Tech_JA (Jorge Augusto)]

Hi Neville,

@nevj

system-monitoring-center

Linux Mint has this program to install as flatpak:

However, after installing it, I got the following information:

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@Rosika

for system-monitoring-center you might like to take a look at
@Ankush_Das ´s article

The links in System Monitoring Center is an Ideal Task Manager & Resource Monitor for Linux didn’t work for me.

Jorge