"Make sense" keymap to launch gnome-system-monitor?

[Lars Wirzenius]

On pe, 2008-02-08 at 12:53 -0500, A. Walton wrote:
> I could see a use, as this is Ubuntu Studio and not Ubuntu; music
> producers often need to check CPU usage of their software, and avoid
> pegging the CPU to avoid nasty pops, cracks and hisses caused by
> hardware hiccups. While some utilities have this built in, some don't,
> so it's good to keep an eye on CPU usage (and arguably, memory usage
> as well).

I have in my top panel a system monitor that continuously reports CPU,
network, and disk activity (these being the three metrics I'm primarily
interested in). Unobtrusive, and does not require bringing it up
separately.