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mihaicj
October 12th, 2009, 08:13 AM
Does anyone know a CPU/memory gadget like like in Windows vista? I use a screenlet but it's not as nice as the one in vista. The windows one has a smooth motion whereas the screenlet just jumps from one place to another.
MelDJ
October 12th, 2009, 10:00 AM
find the screenlet you would rather like here: http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Home
mihaicj
October 12th, 2009, 10:58 AM
find the screenlet you would rather like here: http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Home

What is that supposed to mean?
MelDJ
October 12th, 2009, 11:01 AM
you could go there and find a screenlet that suites what you want:popcorn:
mihaicj
October 12th, 2009, 11:02 AM
you could go there and find a screenlet that suites what you want:popcorn:

I could not find it.
MelDJ
October 12th, 2009, 11:04 AM
dig deeper and you will find this in the website: http://screenlets.org/index.php/Category:UserScreenlets.
there are quite of screenlets there.
mihaicj
October 12th, 2009, 11:47 AM
dig deeper and you will find this in the website: http://screenlets.org/index.php/Category:UserScreenlets.
there are quite of screenlets there.

I found that. There are quite A LOT of screenlets there but not what I want.
fabounet
October 12th, 2009, 02:22 PM
you can also try Cairo-Dock, it has a System-Monitor applet that can be placed on the desktop, and has the exact same gauge.
mcduck
October 12th, 2009, 03:15 PM
Does anyone know a CPU/memory gadget like like in Windows vista? I use a screenlet but it's not as nice as the one in vista. The windows one has a smooth motion whereas the screenlet just jumps from one place to another.

Most likely you can simply change the update interval of the Screenlet to get smoother result.

The default interval is quite long to avoid the problem Vista's widget has, constant polling of CPU usage and widget updates result in high CPU usage.. It doesn't make much sense to have a CPU monitor widget which itself results in 10–30% extra CPU load. :D
mihaicj
October 12th, 2009, 05:28 PM
Most likely you can simply change the update interval of the Screenlet to get smoother result.

The default interval is quite long to avoid the problem Vista's widget has, constant polling of CPU usage and widget updates result in high CPU usage.. It doesn't make much sense to have a CPU monitor widget which itself results in 10–30% extra CPU load. :D

That's true but I'd like it to move smoothly from one value to another instead of jumping. The screenlet can't do that.
mihaicj
October 12th, 2009, 05:29 PM
you can also try Cairo-Dock, it has a System-Monitor applet that can be placed on the desktop, and has the exact same gauge.

I use Cairo-Dock but I don't like that particular applet. The gauges are very far apart and the labels are not where I'd like them.
mister_p_1998
October 13th, 2009, 11:29 AM
Well, I still like gdesklets, does me fine.
Steve
fabounet
October 13th, 2009, 02:42 PM
ah, this is only in the latest version of Cairo-Dock (2.1.1-beta)
some new gauges have been added.