Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/04/2017 00:58, Kai Krakow wrote: >>> Oh, and have a look at gkrellm and its plugins. It might have all you >>> want already and then some :) >> No, I hate that. See above. Too overwhelmin, too distracting, and >> either it steals screen real estate or isn't visible anyways and thus >> no need to run it altogether. As I said, I never understood why one >> would need such fancy monitor stuff. If I feel the need of monitoring >> some status, I usually do this in a console window using CLI tools. > > he :-) > > I actually /like/ gkrellm, been using it for years. On KDE too. See > screenshot. > > I keep it narrow (60 pixels) and with 1920x1080 I can afford that. > I use virtualbox extensively and when I fire up all 12 VMs I have > currently, I find gkrellm is the only thing that really shows me > activity the way I want it. Horses for courses I guess :-) > > Never really groked CDE though. Lilac just ain't my hting >
Same here. I have Gkrellm on my parking desktop. That's the desktop I'm usually on when I'm not doing anything. At a glance, I can see what the CPUs are doing, memory, disks, fans and a whole host of other things. I can't see me going without Gkrellm. I'd be one sad puppy if it stopped working or being developed. :-( I'd want it up and running no matter what desktop I was using. As you showed, you can make it really small if one wants too. Dale :-) :-)
