Resources Changelog

What's new in Resources 1.4.0

Apr 15, 2024
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Users other than the current user were mistakenly shown as root in the Processes view
  • The titlebar for GPU views was inconsistent with the other titlebars
  • Some widgets did not have accessibility labels
  • RAM size was calculated wrongly
  • Dialogs regarding process manipulation (such as ending a process) still said “Application”
  • App names in the Applications view were not localized into the user’s language
  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Resources can now show graphs in the sidebar too (this is enabled per default but can be toggled back to the old bars in the settings)
  • CPU time of processes can now be shown in the Processes view
  • Read speed and write speed in Drive views now also have graphs
  • When launched, Resources will now start with the view that was last opened
  • When launched, Resources will now sort the items in the Applications and Processes views by what they were last sorted by
  • Added device descriptions for better distinction between similar devices (disabled by default)
  • There are now keyboard shortcuts for manipulating processes and applications
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Upgraded the Flatpak runtime to GNOME 46, allowing Resources to use libadwaita 1.5’s new and improved dialogs
  • Added brand colors and changed Resources’ summary to adhere to new Flathub guidelines
  • The column views in the Applications and Processes views now have undershoot and their backgrounds now looks less out of place
  • The power usage properties in GPU views are now more compact
  • Widgets with graphs in them now look closer to libadwaita’s not-that-new-anymore action rows
  • Improved app detection for GNOME Terminal and Google Chrome

New in Resources 1.3.0 (Jan 3, 2024)

  • Happy holidays, everyone!
  • Resources 1.3 has been a long time in the making and brings a number of new and exciting features as well as many bug fixes.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Snap applications were not properly detected and categorized as system processes (#98), this fix requires an additional Flatpak permission (read-only access to /var/lib/snapd/desktop)
  • CPU usage of processes and applications was not calculated correctly
  • Newer AMD GPUs were not properly detected (#99)
  • The counting for multiple GPUs started at 0
  • bash was recognized as an application if there was a detected .desktop file using bash to start the app (#112)
  • “simple-framebuffers” were recognized as GPU
  • Displayed stock speed instead of overclocked speed for RAM using AMD EXPO or Intel XMP (#122)
  • NEW FEATURES:
  • GPU usage (including video encoder, video decoder and VRAM usage) is now tracked per-process
  • The amount of datapoints in graphs is now configurable
  • A grid can now be displayed for graphs
  • More statistics for Intel GPUs
  • The info window for applications and processes now shows the launch date
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Vastly improved memory usage over time
  • Non-Wireguard VPNs are now recognized as such
  • Memory properties can now be accessed without root privileges
  • Resources needs less time to load after launch
  • Resources’ companion process “resources-processes” is now launched once to run for as long as Resources itself is running, rather than being launched on every refresh
  • Better recognition of Chromium-based applications and their many processes
  • AMD GPUs have a more precise name in the titlebar
  • Processes and applications refresh now as fast as the rest of the UI does
  • The scrollbar doesn’t jump around anymore when scrolling the processes or applications list during a refresh
  • It might take a while for this update to be on Flathub because it seems like I need to apply for a new exception for Resources in flatpak-builder-lint, sorry for that. :)

New in Resources 1.2.1 (Nov 10, 2023)

  • This is just a small bugfix release addressing the following issues:
  • Fixed: Loop Devices were not properly recognized as such and were displayed in the sidebar even when 'Show Virtual Drives' was disabled (#84)
  • Fixed: VM Bridges were not properly recognized as such and were displayed in the sidebar even when 'Show Virtual Network Interfaces' was disabled (#22)
  • Fixed: Resources was still not properly declared as a mobile-friendly app (#31)