Hey, Kai, [ You put a Reply-To in your message and you get what you ask for, right? ] On Tuesday 05 June 2007 12:11, Kai Ponte wrote:

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Since most of us here probably don't have a clue what conky is...

http://conky.sourceforge.net/

What an odd name... Oh, it's one of those Canadian things... Anyway, I'm pretty happy with GKrellM for local monitoring with a real-time graphic display: http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html It's included in the [open]SuSE distribution and, for 10.0 at least, there are newer versions available from Guru's RPMs. Randall Schulz -- "Those shoes look Canadian." —Schoolchild remarking on a the new girl in the episode titled "Bye Bye Nerdie" of "The Simpsons" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

----- "Patrick Shanahan" wrote:

* Randall R Schulz [06-05-07 15:57]: [...]

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Anyway, I'm pretty happy with GKrellM for local monitoring with a real-time graphic display:

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html

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It's included in the [open]SuSE distribution and, for 10.0 at least,

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there are newer versions available from Guru's RPMs.

but you can do very similar things with conky and do not need another window open on the desktop :^)

for example: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/desktop.conky.jpg

It's not included in 10.2, and it wasn't in 10.1 if I remember correctly. But it's not too complicated to setup. Step1: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143975 and download Step2: unpack the file with the app of choice (or tar -xzf <filename>) Step3: ./configure make make install (as root) Step4: Configure Conky-config: it's $HOME/.conkyrc (examples are provided) Step5: Start Conky along with X somewhere with the -d option (conky -d) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org