and you get a little tick each time a process updates if the vo cursor is in the right place.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:18 AM Subject: Re: Activity Monitor HI, To add to Dan's comments on activity monitor, the information updates as it is monitored. So if you have selected one of the tabs for, say, CPU, and are looking at the %Usage for User (or System, or Idle), if you VO-keys right arrow and left arrow between the item you're checking and the reported usage you'll hear this change. To monitor specific processes you need to interact with the table. By default all processes are displayed. You can change this to show just your processes, or type a specific process, like Safari, into the search field. No big surprise that Safari is one of the major resource users. If you don't automatically see the window try typing command-1. This should bring up the main activity monitor window if it is closed (e.g., if you used command-w to dismiss it). Another thing that may be useful for the first few times you use Activity Monitor is to use command-s (or the save option under the file menu on the menu bar) and then export a list of your processes to a file that you can examine with TextEdit. Save the exported list as a process list. It'll give you some stats about active and free memory usage, and a list of processes with their (snapshot) %CPU and Virtual memory usage. This doesn't give you the other quick summary information that you might want to check using the tabs Dan mentioned, but may give you a feeling for what gets reported under the process tables. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 07, 2008, at 05:32AM, Dan wrote: >Hello, >Activity monitor works really well with VO. >Just make sure you have the correct >tab selected for what you want to see. There are 5 tabs and tables to >select. Depending on what Process Table you are looking for. >The Tabs are, CPU, System Memory, Disk Memory, Disc Usage and Network. >Dan >On Mar 7, 2008, at 7:08 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> I've got a tone of info in mine. It came up working out of the box >> on my >> Macbook Pro. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "vashaun jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS >> X by >> theblind" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 8:39 AM >> Subject: Activity Monitor >> >> >> Listers are we supposed to be able to use activity monitor to display >> running processes like what is displayed in the Windows task manager? >> If so my main window pain isn't showing anything. Is this a >> accessibility issue or do I need to set something up to make it work? >> Also if this is not the right application for monitoring running >> processes, can you let me know what you guys use? >> >> >> >> > > > >
