I concur with Anthony Chubb's comments, which were indeed the original impetus that motivated me to begin tinkering with the indicator width in the first.place. I forgot to mention this in the wake of the more catastrophic problems that occurred when I tried to change the width. But had these symptoms not existed, I never would have bothered messing with the width. My ideal state would be to see the "Mem: 6.2 GB" text that I used to see, and not flickering.
As to my Question 2 above, I did discover that this setting was maintained in dconf under the key of /de/mh21/indicator-multiload/, as indicated in my link above. Navigating there, I was able to change the width back to 40 and reinstall the indicator without breaking the system. However, I only see the graphical display, which is better than nothing, but not ideal, and it does flicker. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1974063 Title: system load indicator does not show memory usage, ignoring preferences To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-multiload/+bug/1974063/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs