domino Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 Here's something thing you guys might be interested in. It's called conky. It's basically a very light system monitor that stays on your desktop. It has a few caveats under gnome due to how Gnome redraws the desktop, but it's manageable when you add Load "dbe" in your "Module" of the xorg.conf file. If you want it to run at login, just add "conky" to your sessions startup programs. Interested persons should read the dev site's man pages, particularly the config file settings section. Site: http://conky.sourceforge.net/ Edited config file. Not the best colors, but oh well [K]Ubuntu Dapper/Breezy users can just install the precompiled version: conky_1.4.2_0ubuntu1_i386.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 I wonder if something like this could ever be ported into OSX for our intel macs? it would be nice.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 Actually these is. In a form of a widget called iStat. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20364 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 Thanks I will try this when I get home tonight and see what I get.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 widget works great on OSX but not able to show CPU temp and fan speeds and such.. Must be some sensor stuff that OSX needs i guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 2, 2006 Author Share Posted July 2, 2006 If you're installing on a hacked Mac, what did you expect? Anyway, you can always start a new topic in the Mac forum about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antman Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 yeah, was just reporting back about it not seeing sensors on other hardware other than mac. but nice program. I like this widget.. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 2, 2006 Author Share Posted July 2, 2006 No problem. You won't like it so much when you see how much memory it eats . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 conky is very nice indeed! i'm using it already on my desktop, together with fluxbox+transparent Terms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 hehe, I bet you can boot your Linux box in less than 8 seconds running fluxbox.. Talk about light weight! oh, doesn't conky works perfectly with fluxbox don't it? I just hate the way it works with gnome and kde, although I could get used to it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted July 5, 2006 Share Posted July 5, 2006 yeah works very nice. you can modify the conky conf and change the layout it's all very easy(there r a lot of scripts around). kde/gnome are easier to use at first but then you have a box full of unused things with fluxbox or other light WMs you can build your desktop from scratch and get only what you need(i.e. i have rox to explore the filesystem and that's it... ohh and conky ) in addition you can place icons on the desktop using fbdesk after a bit of tweaks you can have light++useful, but still cute desktop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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