Re: [gentoo-user] gkrellm [Was: Something eats my memory - please help]

[Miroslav Rovis]

Two answers, both useful, to my query. I'll reply to both in this single email,
pasting in Dale's reply the few lines from Mick's reply.

On 170411-03:50-0500, Dale wrote:
> Miroslav Rovis wrote:
> > On 170410-21:00-0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> >>>> Here's another vote for gkrellm, which I have been using for more years than
> >>>> I can easily remember. I have it permanently on display on all desktops
> >> mee too
> >>
> > And installs and runs just fine in a sans-dbus system.
...
> > I found and set a smaller font size, and I'm only left with one,
> > non-urgent, thing to do. It's slightly larger than I would want it to
> > be. I think it was possible back a few years ago to get is to occupy
> > less space on a desktop. Horizontally is fine, but vertically on
> > 1024x768 screen, it occupies almost two-thirds of the height. Possible?
> > Any tips?
...
PASTING

On 170411-09:34+0100, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 Apr 2017 09:54:19 Miroslav Rovis wrote:
...
> Select a 'Composite CPU' gkrellm, rather than one per CPU.  Ditto for Disk.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

I tested it, it works, but I have only 4 CPUs, and I like to see them
all four. I know some processes only use one, and some (such as FFmpeg)
use absolutely all available by default, and I like to see those in a
glance as said previously in the thread ;-)

Also I often plug SATA disks in and out
(
such as e.g. for my local mirror; I sometimes update daily; Portage
snapshots and emerge-webrsync are still the way to go; the
verifiability! of the installation is there... You don't get that in all
the distro!
)
, which would make for the need to toggle disks on and off in gkrellm,
so only /dev/sda is always shown... andcompositing there wouldn't make
sense either

PASTED

>
> The way I adjust the overall height on mine, I adjust the height of each
> section.  For example, I make the CPU chart(s) shorter, then then hard
> drive(s), processes etc until I get a height I want.  It takes some time
> to tweak it and get it right but eventually, I find a sweet spot.
>
> Another thing, at least this used to work, adjusting fonts and their
> size.  That generally affects the height some too.
>
> I'm not aware of a way to do that as a whole with a single setting.  If
> someone knows of one, I'd be interested in it too.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

I decided for your approach. It works! Now gkrellm occupies maybe 40 to
45 % of the screen height on my 1024x768 display, and that is
just fine!

Thanks!

A sidenote (or change of topic? if it would make for more than an email
or two; repliers, pls. re-work the subject line if needed).

While configuring gkrellm I figured out what to do for any windows to
get placed properly on the desktop when I start my Openbox (I start it
simply with "startx").

I open many windows with configuration in ~/.config/openbox/autostart
where I have lines like:

sleep 6 && urxvt -g -0+125 -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1" &
sleep 6.5 && urxvt -g -0-0 -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1" &
...
sleep 8 && urxvt -g +0-0 -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1" &
...
sleep 10.5 && urxvt -g -125+10 -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1" &
sleep 11 && urxvt -g -230+0 -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1" &
sleep 12 && urxvt -g -0+80 -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--6-60-75-75-c-40-iso10646-1" &
sleep 13 && gkrellm -g +0+0 &

The -g [+/-]<some number>[+/-]<some number> is what I finally figured
out by reading the Help in gkrellm.

And I was wondering how to achieve two things (I know they're buried
somewhere in Xorg man pages, but which manpages?)...

First, get the windows to start with arbitrary sizes (gkrellm can't do
it, says in its help, but it neither should do it). What I mean, I'd
like to get, say this urxvt window:

sleep 10.5 && urxvt -g -125+10 -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1" &

to be not the default size, but the size 80x5 only. Et cetera...

And the second thing, on rxv-unicode terminals, I mostly don't need the
title on top of it (such as, as I'm writing this in mutt, and if I
Alt-Space and "d" to decorate it (I keep'em all undecorated most of the
time), I have the title reading:
mutt-g0n-1000-5313-742846618375958965 + (/tmp) - VIM
on it (just to be precise by virtue of example in case I'm not naming
things correctly), or the decoration, which gives it the edges of some
2-3 pixels in size (in bottom only), for moving the windows with the mouse.

I mostly don't need those, as in Openbox I just use Alt-Space to get the
menu of the window to open, and then I type "m" for move, or "z" for
resize, and use arrows to either move, or resize, respectively, and Esc
when the position/size is acceptable upon move/resize.

How can I get urxvt to start undecorated, i.e without any edges nor
window title?

Regards!
-- 
Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
https://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr