Information about your system right on your desktop

Enforcer · 10-20-2002, 04:09 PM

Hi!

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Samurize is an system monitoring application for Win2k/WinXp, that can display information about your system right on your desktop, and uses almost no memory

- http://www.samurize.com

Have anyone seen something like this for *nix (Linux / *BSD) ??

MasterC · 10-20-2002, 04:19 PM

Hey whoever's screenshot that is with the Explorer Address bar in it is cool. That program looks very neat.

There are things that are like it, and you could display top on your desktop like that which would provide alot of that info. To do that, get a program called root-tail from www.freshmeat.net

You could display anything you wanted in it actually...

Cool

leed_25 · 10-20-2002, 04:19 PM

There is a program called xosview which displays such status information for unices running X.
http://xosview.sourceforge.net/
It's not nearly as flashy or as configurable --well it's not really configurable at all.

adam_boz · 10-20-2002, 09:09 PM

there's also "top" which is a console program.... just open up an x-term and type "top". This probably uses the least amount of mem.

Also, there's gkrellm which I like a lot. It is very configurable. I haven't gotten too deep into it at all, but it tells me when I have new mail, what my processor, memory, swap, network card are doing as well as the date, time, uptime, and hostname.... it can do a lot more too.

born4linux · 10-21-2002, 01:23 AM

get gkrellm:

http://gkrellm.net/

displays system status in realtime. you can also download skins.

nxny · 10-21-2002, 07:41 PM

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Originally posted by born4linux
get gkrellm:

http://gkrellm.net/

displays system status in realtime. you can also download skins.

or better yet, use gkrellm on fluxbox. See http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net Add a couple of wallpapers from http://www.digitalblasphemy.com to kick some serious butt.