Updating this article. it came full circle. Originally posted Oct 2023.
So since I moved from i3 to Gnome via full reinstall, I didn’t save dot files or notes about bottom. For the life of me, I just could not remember the name of this tool. Then noticed it here, not even remembering that I shared it. But glad I found this tool again, it’s pretty good! 
It’s also very useful for monitoring temps, including GPU temps:
With all these local LLMs like DeepSeek and others, it comes in handy!