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Old 03-07-2006, 03:42 PM   #1
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Have you seen this software??


I was browsing the net the other night and I came across a screen shot of some guys desktop and it the bottom right corner were the stats for the box, e.g. cpu% memory useage, eth0 bandwidth in use etc. It was setup to look like text written straight onto the desktop, bit like a HUD.

Unfortunately I lost the url where I saw this so have no idea what it was, does anybody know what program it is???

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Old 03-07-2006, 03:48 PM   #2
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There is a program available for KDE that does that called superkaramba.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/superkaramba/
 
Old 03-07-2006, 04:13 PM   #3
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That looks like the software used to produce what I saw, maybe that is what the author of the desktop used??

Thanks

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Old 03-07-2006, 04:35 PM   #4
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Well, there are two pieces of software that do what you describe. One, as mentioned by pdeman2 is superkaramba and the other is gkrellm: http://members.dslextreme.com/users/...m/gkrellm.html.

Hope this helps.

Rick

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Old 03-07-2006, 04:56 PM   #5
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Thanks Rick

I am running gkrellm now but it is completely different to what I saw. and as I said in the previous post superkramba is the program you would use to produce what I saw

Imagine writing in text "CPU 75%" directly onto the desktop, no window, borders or anything else, thats how it looked.

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Google for conky, that's what you're after
 
  


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