On 2/21/06, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/20/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/20/06, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl Lowenstein wrote: > > > > One of my favorite desktop toys in FC4 and its predecessors is the > > > > small System Monitor that > > > > sits in the task bar panel and shows me CPU utilization and other > > > > things. I can't find the equivalent function in KDE. > > > > > > > > carl > > > > > > Right click on an unused area of the Panel: > > > > > > Select "Add Applet to Panel..." > > > > > > where you can choose System Monitor or SystemGuard or both from the > > > list. These will dock into the Panel. SystemGuard does take up a fair > > > amount of room if you are running at a lower resolution (I can tolerate > > > it at 1024x768). > > > > Aha. The Applet is named KSysGuard in the Add to Panel -> Applet list. > > Does System Monitor not do what you want?
System Monitor, as I see it on my screen, occupies about 30% of the area of a 1024x768 display. At most 20% of that space has useful information, the rest is useless display overhead. > > What worksheet? > > Different things you might want to display. You have CPU and memory, > but you monitor other things as well (like network activity), and you > would create a new "worksheet" that included these other things, and > then you would load that worksheet. I think "sensors" are meant as > kind of a plugin scheme. So where do I find the worksheet and how do I use it? Documentation? > > Somehow the use of KDE applets is not being very intuitive to me. > > It could use improvement. </understatement> The "help" too. > > Here's a KSysGuard article: > http://docs.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/17/1832239&tid=29&tid=14&tid=94 Note that even the best display in that article devotes more than 50% of the window to non-changing setup information and wide frames around the graphic charts. I will have to try some of those things. But I am not running a multi-user server for which a display of several system conditions is of primary interest. I am running my own private computer. System status is only a secondary interest, as I want to know how much of the resources my current jobs are using, or whether something is hung, etc. I am more interested in watching the job output. Back in the really olden days, I could watch the blinkenlights. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
