multiload indicator icons are too small on gnome classic & shell

It looks like the indicator is forced to a standard-icon-width, regardless of how wide the indicator actually is. Could you check whether disabling some of the graphs/reducing the width of the graphs increases the size of the indicator?

Ok... I did the test: the size not change, when I close other indicators (Dropbox, Remmina, ....)

I also tested to change the size in the multiload-indicator settings, but it also not change.

I know, in ocelot there was no problem like this (I used Gnome Classic and the multiload-indicator without any problem) - no there must be somewhere a change :-(

I did a new test: when I deselected all resources to display and left only one it looks ok.
But when I add resources the complete size not change and the "resource blocks" get smaller.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

in gnome-shell is the same problem visible... not only classic shell.

any updates?

I think I have the same bug with Cinnamon. Running indicator-multiload from a terminal gives the attached output. Will running apport-collect 927303 help?

Am also experiencing this in a custom setup using gnome-panel with xmonad. Screenshot attached. Adding and removing indicators (or changing the width of each indicator) adjusts the size of the indicator area, but it's still tiny.

For GNOME Shell it is indeed too small, see screenshot. The height should be increased.

Please see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-multiload/+bug/1002163

This also effects me, and has since I first heard of it a year or so ago. However, I use both XFCE4-Panel and LXpanel. It effects them both the same. I still use it, as it is great. This is annoying though, as I can only use 1 monitor.

I decided to add a comment here, as I don't know if this would be the same "bug" for gnome classic as the XFCE/LXDE ones. Should I start a new bug report? Or would it go with this one? Or is XFCE/LXDE even supported?

This bug started affecting me when I upgraded my Xubuntu 12.04 machine to 12.10.

This indicator works by continuously generating a new icons (png), stored at (on my machine, at least, /var/lock/multiload-icons-$RANDOM/ ). These png are the correct size, so I don't think this is an issue with multiload-indicator.

I think the blame lies with the indicator service; in my case, it is gnome-panel (as far as I can tell).

I also upgraded my Xubuntu (XFCE) from 12.04 to 12.10 and hit this issue. Makes the indicator pretty much unusable.

The same problem with xubuntu un 12.10.

OK, this is a little odd (and may not be reproducible). I just upgraded my video card and during configuration accidentally enabled xinerama, which resulted in a weird issue with gnome-panel containing multiples of each item. The issue (and fix, see answer 1) is described here:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/133647/gnome-panel-has-multiple-rows-how-to-undo-that

After I used dconf-editor to reset to the defaults shown in that post, my multiload indicator is normal width again (100px)! I used the exact settings described in the post:

object-id-list ['menu-bar', 'indicators', 'show-desktop', 'window-list', 'workspace-switcher']
toplevel-id-list ['top-panel', 'bottom-panel']

Not sure if this will work for anyone else, but it's really nice to have my indicators back...

I tried to apply Derek's fix, but I don't have gnome-panel installed, so I couldn't do it.

Installing gnome-panel is not very nice, because it has 198 dependencies, but I tried it anyway. object-id-list and toplevel-id-list were empty; each contained only []. I then set them to Derek's settings and rebooted. No effect. :(

Fredrik, sorry to hear it didn't work. This is a machine that's been upgraded from 10.04 through intermediary releases, and I use gnome-classic as my shell, so it's possible I have some fortuitous combination of cruft that gets it going.

Aye, I use the default XFCE shell.

Same problema here.

Any one has any clue on what might be causing this?

Could you check whether the version at https://launchpad.net/~indicator-multiload/+archive/daily fixes the problem with the indicator being to small?