How do I have a thing on my desktop that tells me my system resources?

[xequence]

I know you can have a specific window showing the cpu usage and ram usage, but can it be put right to the desktop? I see many kde desktops with it but no gnome ones. I searched google but didnt find anything. Is it just for kde?

This is unlike all my other long indepth questions :P

http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?screen_id=66866184242e6a940a393f&p=screen

Like the stuff on the left side of the screen there. But just the top three ones :)

[ssck]

I know you can have a specific window showing the cpu usage and ram usage, but can it be put right to the desktop? I see many kde desktops with it but no gnome ones. I searched google but didnt find anything. Is it just for kde?

This is unlike all my other long indepth questions :P

http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?screen_id=66866184242e6a940a393f&p=screen

Like the stuff on the left side of the screen there. But just the top three ones :)

try gdesklets ... you should be able to find what you need ....

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=54835

[xequence]

Ok, thank you very much :)

[Slugger]

Thats a cool program!

[matthew]

Do a search for gkrellm. It's a pretty cool one and it is available in the repositories.

[cutOff]

You could have a look to Conky

http://conky.sourceforge.net/


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[jtan325]

just to let you guys know, conky 1.3.0 came out yesterday, big pimpin'. see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....6768#post326768

[xequence]

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And you do realise I posted this 17 days ago? =P

[jtan325]

WHOOPS. my bad. see here:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=61297&highlight=conky

[xequence]

Its ok :P It looks cool anyway =O

[poofyhairguy]

I love my gdesklets. The problem is that they use many resources to tell you what is used....oh well.

[jtan325]

haha. then give conky a shot, it uses *very little* resources to tell you what is used, and so much more... fan status, current mpd song playing, graphs of networking speed, etc. http://conky.sf.net

[poofyhairguy]

haha. then give conky a shot, it uses *very little* resources to tell you what is used, and so much more... fan status, current mpd song playing, graphs of networking speed, etc. http://conky.sf.net

Its cool. I have a nice computer and it a glorified Web Browser most the time. Its nice to have it doing something.

[jerome bettis]

gdesklets is the most bug ridden POS program i've ever seen. i've tried it three times and each time it's worse. almost nothing works and the stuff that works doesn't work right.

torsmo is the real deal. screenshot (http://www.pitt.edu/~jwn7/screenshot.jpg)

[jtan325]

gdesklets is the most bug ridden POS program i've ever seen. i've tried it three times and each time it's worse. almost nothing works and the stuff that works doesn't work right.

torsmo is the real deal. screenshot (http://www.pitt.edu/~jwn7/screenshot.jpg)

i agree on the gdesklets part, but disagree on the torsmo... torsmo is no longer active. conky is the real deal, fo shizzle.screenshots (http://conky.sf.net/screenshots.html)

[jerome bettis]

i agree on the gdesklets part, but disagree on the torsmo... torsmo is no longer active. conky is the real deal, fo shizzle.screenshots (http://conky.sf.net/screenshots.html)

i stand corrected

conky is the real deal.