I mentioned this gkrellm tool at tonights meeting. (or is that last night now?) Here's where you can get more detail:
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html This is a system monitor that sits on your desktop. It is configurable to show more or less information and/or statistics. There are even plugins to check if you have mail, use it as a music player, and more. You can also theme it if you'd like. I personally like the "invisible" theme so that the graphs "float" over my background. I typically run this from a console, or via the RUN dialog (alt-f2 on kde). Then I just don't close the program. At that point, it's always on my desktop. I also configure gkrellm to not show in the task bar. So now it's just part of my desktop. But it's very handy - when things are getting a little sluggish, a quick glance tells me it's due to high drive activity, or CPU, or memory. It's also handy to figure out how badly the application I just started is affecting my resources. Theming is easy. Download the team you want (it's in a tar.gz file), decompress it and move the resulting directory into your ~/.gkrellm/themes directory. Now you can pick that theme from the dialog (right click on gkrellm - it'll either take you straight to the configuration for the thing you right-clicked on (i.e. Disk), or give you a context menu. From the context menu you can go to configuration, then pick themes. gkrellm is a mature application, so most distros have it in their repository. For *buntu, a simple "apt-get install gkrellm" does the trick. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
