On 11/04/2017 00:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 10 Apr 2017 12:26:38 Dale wrote: > >> 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. > > Here's another vote for gkrellm, which I have been using for more years than > I can easily remember. I have it permanently on display on all desktops: one > instance for this workstation and one each for two other boxes on the LAN. I > like to know what my systems are doing, all the time, BOINC and all. So on > my 27", 1920x1080 display I can afford a 100px display of each. > > I also subscribe to the gkrellm mailing list to stay up to date and so that > I can report oddities, which do crop up from time to time. One of those at > the moment is that my NVMe disk shows up in between sda and sdb, which are > both external USB drives. Hey ho. >
I tried all sorts of other monitors over the years. Anything and everything ever written to go into a kde or plasma panel just does not cut it - they are way too big and tend to drift to the top of top. Gnome's monitors are smaller but just as resource sucky. enlightenment has nice ones, but they are few and only work with enlightenment (which I gave up on shortly into e0.18) conky really only works if you minimize all windows and look at the desktop. Not for me. CLI tools are nice and I use them all the time when troubleshooting. But not for regular use - nothing beats flicking my eye over to the left edge and looking for biggish blobs of cyan and amber :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
