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Glider · 21 Jan 2008

Yep, that's Conky. And not only does it look cool, it's usefull and unlike Samurize or any other system monitors out there also very light (1-3% CPU on my system, with a huge varable conky config)

Shielder · 21 Jan 2008

Hmmm, I wonder if I'll be able to get it going under Fedora/Red Hat.

Andy

Nexxo · 21 Jan 2008

Glider said: ↑

Yep, that's Conky. And not only does it look cool, it's usefull and unlike Samurize or any other system monitors out there also very light (1-3% CPU on my system, with a huge varable conky config)
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Samurize is light: 3-6% depending on what trickery you do. Graphic-heavy plug-ins (custom-made analog dials made by rotating .jpg images, for instance) can push up the load a bit, but otherwise even a very big config comes in at about 3%.

Glider · 21 Jan 2008

But I am talking on my system... In 'rest' my CPU throttles to 600MHz, and then it's only 3%, at full speed it's 1%.

I used Samurize when I was on Windows, and it was a lot heavier... But I reckon that's due to the nature... Conky config == Plain txt file, Samurize is a more graphical thing...

Elv13 · 22 Jan 2008

here is my conky config file if you want it. With conky, you can display almost everything if you know how. The man page is almost complete for that, but there is few hidden feature/newer than man page and it is possible to use some hack do display other things (using the file monitor and few bash/c/c++ script/simple apps)

# Conky sample configuration
#
# the list of variables has been removed from this file in favour
# of keeping the documentation more maintainable.
# Check http://conky.sf.net for an up-to-date-list.

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
#background no

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 5x7
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
#font 8x13
#font 9x15
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

# Use Xft?
#use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

# Print everything to stdout?
# out_to_console no

# MPD host/port
# mpd_host localhost
# mpd_port 6600
# mpd_password tinker_bell

# Print everything to console?
# out_to_console no

# mail spool
#mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
#own_window yes

# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type normal

# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes

# If own_window_transparent is set to no, you can set the background colour here
own_window_colour hotpink

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
#own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 280 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
#draw_borders no

# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_borders yes

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 8

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
#border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
#default_color white
#default_shade_color black
#default_outline_color black

#dexter_client no
#dexter_server no
# config file for libdexter (default search path: $HOME/.dexterrc; /etc/libdexter/dexter.conf)
#dexter_config

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment none

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 5
gap_y 70

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
#uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 5

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 5

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
#override_utf8_locale no

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
#use_spacer no

# Allow each port monitor to track at most this many connections (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
#max_port_monitor_connections 256

# Maximum number of special things, e.g. fonts, offsets, aligns, etc.
#max_specials 512

# Maximum size of buffer for user text, i.e. below TEXT line.
#max_user_text 16384

# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter
# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network
# stuff because of an argument

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
$nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine
${color lightgrey}Uptime:$color $uptime ${color lightgrey}- Load:$color $loadavg
$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}CPU Usage:${color #cc2222} $cpu% ${cpubar}
${color lightgrey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar}
${color lightgrey}Betrry Charge: ${battery} $battery_time
${color lightgrey}Processes:$color $processes ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Networking:
Down:${color #8844ee} ${downspeed eth0} k/s${color lightgrey} ${offset 185}Up:${color #22ccff} ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color #0000ff}${downspeedgraph eth0 32,250 ff0000 0000ff} ${color #22ccff}${upspeedgraph eth0 32,250 0000ff ff0000}

${color lightgrey} $stippled_hr

${color lightgrey}Root:
$color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar /}

${color lightgrey}Swap Usage:
$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar}

${color lightgrey}Mac OS X:
$color${fs_used /mnt/sda2}/${fs_size /mnt/sda2} ${fs_bar /mnt/sda2}

${color lightgrey}USD drive:
$color${fs_used /mnt/sdb}/${fs_size /mnt/sdb} ${fs_bar /mnt/sdb}

Read:${color #8844ee} ${diskio_read}/s ${color lightgrey} ${offset 187}Write:${color #22ccff} ${diskio_write}/s
${color #0000ff}${diskiograph_read 32,250 0000ff ff0000 } ${color #22ccff}${diskiograph_write 32,250 0000ff ff0000 }

$stippled_hr

${color}CPU usage:
${color}Name PID CPU% MEM%
${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 5} ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 6} ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6} ${top mem 6}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 7} ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7} ${top mem 7}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 8} ${top pid 8} ${top cpu 8} ${top mem 8}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 9} ${top pid 9} ${top cpu 9} ${top mem 9}

${color}Mem usage:
${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 4} ${top_mem pid 4} ${top_mem cpu 4} ${top_mem mem 4}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 5} ${top_mem pid 5} ${top_mem cpu 5} ${top_mem mem 5}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 6} ${top_mem pid 6} ${top_mem cpu 6} ${top_mem mem 6}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 7} ${top_mem pid 7} ${top_mem cpu 7} ${top_mem mem 7}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 8} ${top_mem pid 8} ${top_mem cpu 8} ${top_mem mem 8}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 9} ${top_mem pid 9} ${top_mem cpu 9} ${top_mem mem 9}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 10} ${top_mem pid 10} ${top_mem cpu 10} ${top_mem mem 10}

$stippled_hr

${tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log 19 30}
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notatoad · 22 Jan 2008

conky?

Fophillips · 22 Jan 2008

Conky is the system monitor at the top.

Shielder · 23 Jan 2008

Couldn't get conky compiled on Fedora. Didn't have the time available to do it, so I gave up (for now). I'll try again at the weekend.

Andy

Elv13 · 24 Jan 2008

just find an rpm, or post the error here, it is propably not a big problem.

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