My PC has Ubuntu 18.04 installed.

It does not want to launch the System Monitor.

This seems to be an OS related issue. I have launched it before and it worked fine. Possibly due to some updates it has stopped working.

I am not looking for a solution. I just wanted to report this and I hope the issue will be remedied soon with an update.

I would like to know whether other people have the same issue with 18.04.

More info:

• I try to launch it via:
  Super+A, open System Monitor. No errors. For a few seconds the "loading circle" tries to convince me that there is an attempt to launch it. But then it disappears and nothing happens.




• I am not sure whether this is the command to open from the terminal, but when I run gnome-system-monitor, it tells me:

/snap/gnome-system-monitor/41/bin/desktop-launch: line 23: /home/sandu/.config/user-dirs.dirs: Permission denied

You need to connect this snap to the gnome platform snap.



You can do this with those commands:

snap install gnome-3-26-1604

snap connect gnome-system-monitor:gnome-3-26-1604 gnome-3-26-1604



(the '3-26-1604' number defines the platform version and might change)