gnome-system-monitor 3.8 has several bugs, some are already reported in Launchpad, see for example LP bug #1174197 (gnome-system-monitor freezes when reordering columns in procs view), also LP bug #93847 (Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor)
Btw, are you 100% sure, that 3.10 and 3.12 releases doesn't work correctly in other desktop environments than GNOME-Shell? Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote 45 minutes ago: > @Mantas: how is 3.8 buggy? > The reason why 3.10 is not used has been stated in previous comment, it uses > widgets that correctly only under gnome-shell and would be buggy/a > regressions for users from other desktop environments -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1261608 Title: [FFe] Update GNOME System Monitor to 3.10.2-2 or sync latest 3.12.0-1 release from Debian testing Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Please update GNOME System Monitor to 3.10.2 - this release contains important bugfixes, for example LP bug #93847 (Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor) or sync latest 3.12.0-1 release from Debian testing - see debian/changelog: gnome-system-monitor (3.12.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. * Drop debian/patches/01-fix_ftbfs_hurd.patch, merged upstream. -- Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:33:35 +0100 gnome-system-monitor (3.11.90-1) experimental; urgency=medium * New upstream release. -- Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:12:59 +0100 gnome-system-monitor (3.10.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Upload to unstable * debian/patches/01-fix_ftbfs_hurd.patch: Fix FTBFS on hurd-i386 (Closes: #738280) * Only enable systemd-logind support on linux architectures -- Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org> Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:05:55 +0100 gnome-system-monitor (3.10.2-1) experimental; urgency=low * New upstream release. - Drop debian/patches/01-kfreebsd-define.patch: Applied upstream - debian/control.in: Bump build-dependencies * debian/control.in: - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5 (no further changes) - Add dependency against libsystemd-login-dev (>= 44) * debian/rules: Explicitly pass --enable-wnck and --enable-systemd to the configure -- Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 16:17:43 +0100 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/1261608/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp