On 2/20/06, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/20/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > One of my favorite desktop toys in FC4 and its predecessors is the
> > small System Monitor that
> > sits in the task bar panel and shows me CPU utilization and other
> > things. I can't find the equivalent function in KDE.
>
> Try "System Monitor" or "System Guard". They both can be put into the
> task bar. You should be able to right click on the task bar and "Add
> to Panel" or some such.
Well, I can put into the task bar a launcher for KDE System Guard. It
is just a button on which I can click to get the whole System Guard up
on the screen. There it takes up about 30% of the available screen
area. This is more than i want to see, especially since most of that
window is useless chart junk. I just measured it, the window on my
screen is 3.2 x 7.3 inches. The four moving charts are each 0.4 x 2.3
inches, each 4% of the window. For a System Load display I don't need
all that overhead. By experiment just now, I can hide the Toolbar and
Statusbar of this window, and resize it to the previous 3.2 inch
height. Now the useful displays have increased to be 5% of the window
area.
The (Gnome) system monitor sits in the task bar and shows small
charts. It can be expanded to a window which is equally as
informative as the KDE System Guard, and equally full of extraneous
chart junk. But I don't usually want that much detail, nor do I want
to give away a large area of the screen.
In case it makes a difference, I am using the version of KDE that
comes bundled with Kubuntu 5.10. A cursory scan of the Help
information does not tell me which release of KDE this actually is.
carl
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