iphitus Posted May 7, 2004 Report Share Posted May 7, 2004 (edited) Torsmo is a system monitor that sits in the corner of your desktop. It's very simple, customizable and it renders only text on the desktop (and percentagebars if you want it to ;) and the only lib it uses is Xlib. Torsmo can show various information about your system and it's peripherals, including: * kernel version * uptime * network interface information * memory and swap usage * hostname * machine, i686 for example * system name, Linux for example * Temperatures from i2c-sensors I have played with it and its cool. It is extremely customizable, so make sure you read the readme on the site. I have been trying to get it to read acpi temperatures. Ill post that when I get it working. While it does consume a little more cpu power than gkrellm would, it uses much much less than gdesklets. It does however have one disadvantage, it doesnt draw over nautilus in GNOME. So if you use GNOME you either have to disable nautilus' desktop drawing with the instructions at the torsmo site or dont use GNOME :) This is also a great first time program for a newbie to compile. It's tiny and the only development library needed is Xfree-devel. Install that, then the normal: tar -zxvf ./configure make make install And enjoy torsmo Site here: http://torsmo.sourceforge.net Download here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...group_id=108594 Edited May 7, 2004 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Disable Nautilus? Don't use Gnome?!? * SoulSe slaps iphitus upside the head * Wake up man! You're delusional! :P Ah bugger... I'll try it out anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 (edited) Cool! This was exactly what I was looking for. Gkrellm just doesn't 'blend in' with my desktop and has way to much information anyway. Gonna try it this evening. Also, lucky me! I just found my 2nd piece of software to compile! :P Edited May 13, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plati Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Can you say....samurize :P Thanks iphitus! Ill check it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Can you say....samurize :P Thanks iphitus! Ill check it out! yes i can!!! s.. s... s... samurize sux! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 It does however have one disadvantage, it doesnt draw over nautilus in GNOME. So if you use GNOME you either have to disable nautilus' desktop drawing with the instructions at the torsmo site or dont use GNOME Alright, this looks just like what I've been looking for... but, what does it mean that you "have to disable nautilus' desktop drawing" ? Does that mean no wallpaper? How do I disable nautilus' desktop drawing and what is the consequence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 run: gconf-editor go under apps->nautilus->preferences turn off the "draw desktop" option (this is from memory so i might be a tad off). the only real disadvantage is that you won't have any icons on your desktop. you will still have your background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 is this gnome/nautilus issue something they are going to fix/change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Ah, don't worry, just use xfwm instead... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2004 is this gnome/nautilus issue something they are going to fix/change? Probably not. Its not an 'issue' to them This works by drawing itself onto the root desktop. Nautilus runs a window over the root desktop. To avoid this, they would have to hack into the way the background is set on the Nautilus window very heavily. Or have it run in a window which would requir a large rewrite and its resource footprint owuld increase immensly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamS Posted May 16, 2004 Report Share Posted May 16, 2004 I'd like to try torsmo, but when I do ./configure the last two lines are: checking for X... no Sorry, X is very much needed and I have not a clue as to what this means. Anyone? 10CE kernel-2.6.3.9mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 16, 2004 Report Share Posted May 16, 2004 urpmi XFree86-devel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 16, 2004 Report Share Posted May 16, 2004 is this gnome/nautilus issue something they are going to fix/change? Probably not. Its not an 'issue' to them This works by drawing itself onto the root desktop. Nautilus runs a window over the root desktop. To avoid this, they would have to hack into the way the background is set on the Nautilus window very heavily. Or have it run in a window which would requir a large rewrite and its resource footprint owuld increase immensly "its resource footprint owuld increase immensly" like gdesklets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamS Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 Works just like gkrellm - no temps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 Works just like gkrellm - no temps. Same here, no network traffic either... but I still like it, this may be a stupid question, I run it under KDE 3.2, how do I get it to start up each time I log in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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