On Friday 18 September 2009 18:23:24 Jay Mistry wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One of the things that people keep asking for is a replacement for > > gkrellm. I've just seen Automatik http://www.kde- > > look.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=106812 and it looks > > promising. However, after downloading the .tgz and unpacking it, I > > haven't a clue what to do now. > > > > Can someone first help me to do this? I'll then do a write-up for > > userbase about that. > > Not sure abuot plasmoids/widgets for KDE 4 (KDE 4.3.1 in openSUSE > 11.1 - since I use the panels mostly for shortcuts to Text Editor, > Konsole, Dolphin, etc), but if you want a display of system info that > is also highly configurable, 'Conky' is a lightweight system info > utility with lots of options: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/conky/ > http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html > Thanks, I'll take a look later today. There actually was a bug in the AutomatiK widget, which the developer has now fixed. AutomatiK and Lappy, both superkaramba widgets, give a huge amount of information, but at the expense of a lot of screen real estate. I couldn't live with either on my main working desktop. By using tiny fonts and the configuration panel it's possible to tuck gkrellm away into a corner, where it's fairly unobtrusive, so while these two widgets have value in their own right, they aren't really a replacement for gkrellm. FWIW, I have them on a separate activity, quickly available via activity-switcher bar. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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