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On 10/04/2017 00:58, Kai Krakow wrote: |
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>> Oh, and have a look at gkrellm and its plugins. It might have all you |
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>> want already and then some :) |
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> No, I hate that. See above. Too overwhelmin, too distracting, and |
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> either it steals screen real estate or isn't visible anyways and thus |
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> no need to run it altogether. As I said, I never understood why one |
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> would need such fancy monitor stuff. If I feel the need of monitoring |
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> some status, I usually do this in a console window using CLI tools. |
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he :-) |
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I actually /like/ gkrellm, been using it for years. On KDE too. See |
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screenshot. |
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I keep it narrow (60 pixels) and with 1920x1080 I can afford that. |
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I use virtualbox extensively and when I fire up all 12 VMs I have |
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currently, I find gkrellm is the only thing that really shows me |
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activity the way I want it. Horses for courses I guess :-) |
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Never really groked CDE though. Lilac just ain't my hting |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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