[opensuse] Gnome equiv of Superkaramba?
So.. I'm tinkering with Gnome on 11.1... in KDE I can use Superkaramba or in KDE4, the plasma widgets to plunk nice system monitor things on the desktop. So far I cannot find anything equivalent in Gnome. If I start Superkaramba, the transparencies don't work... Google Gadgets are ugly... and gDesklets don't work at all (known problem discussed on the forums and apparently a bug open against it, and been a problem for at least 4 or 5 months now from what I read)... So what do Gnome users use? Is this me not finding the obvious again, or is this just something else missing from Gnome? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:47:57 +0200, Clayton wrote:
So what do Gnome users use? Is this me not finding the obvious again, or is this just something else missing from Gnome?
I'm not familiar with what superkaramba does, but for system resource monitoring, I just use the GNOME system monitoring applet - right click on the panel and select "Add to panel" and pick the applet from the list. You can configure it to show a few different things - CPU utilization, memory usage, network, swap, disk, and load. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I'm not familiar with what superkaramba does, but for system resource monitoring, I just use the GNOME system monitoring applet - right click on the panel and select "Add to panel" and pick the applet from the list.
You can configure it to show a few different things - CPU utilization, memory usage, network, swap, disk, and load.
OK, tried that, and that is a very poor-man's solution compared to what Superkaramba can do.. a VERY poor-man's solution :-( This is not the best example, but just one... of many http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=11405&file1=11405-1.jpg&file2=&file3=&name=cynapses+karamba The closest I've come up with is Conky... http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html and... maybe it's just me, but all I can think of when I see this is the old VT-100 terminals... not very appealing. So still looking for something that works in Gnome, and looks reasonably nice at the same time... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:47:57 Clayton wrote:
So.. I'm tinkering with Gnome on 11.1... in KDE I can use Superkaramba or in KDE4, the plasma widgets to plunk nice system monitor things on the desktop. So far I cannot find anything equivalent in Gnome. If I start Superkaramba, the transparencies don't work... Google Gadgets are ugly... and gDesklets don't work at all (known problem discussed on the forums and apparently a bug open against it, and been a problem for at least 4 or 5 months now from what I read)...
So what do Gnome users use? Is this me not finding the obvious again, or is this just something else missing from Gnome?
C.
You might care to look at gkrellm. Maybe not so pretty, but functional. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-default, KDE 4.2.1 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Clayton
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Jim Henderson