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I have been using gkrellm for at least the last 25 years or so. I very much like being able to see what my system is doing at a glance and no other system monit

I have been using gkrellm for at least the last 25 years or so. I very much like being able to see what my system is doing at a glance and no other system monitor comes close to being both as detailed and compact.

kuschkufan 1y ago
Are you also still running fvwm or wmaker? It kind of integrates not so good in e.g. Gnome`s mutter, yeah?
- Zardoz84 1y ago
  Works fine under KDE/Plasma
- bityard 1y ago
  I've used it on all of the DEs I've had over the years, gnome 1,2,3, MATE, cinnamon, KDE, etc. There's nothing to integrate, it just runs and sits there doing its job.
squarefoot 1y ago
Same here. One of my favorite plugins is BubbleFishyMon which seems funny (and it is: water, air bubbles, fishes and a duck indicating system/memory/network load), until one realizes how much information it can convey with just a brief glance.
- JNRowe 1y ago
  At least once a year for the past couple of decades I'll receive an email from a user that makes me want to modernize bfm¹. However, I've never managed to get an auto-scaling version to work with reasonable performance, which is unbelievably annoying for such a simple tool. You can sort of hit the target for gkrellm-bfm while still depending on GTK2, or for the standalone bubblefishymon wmapplet where you can use a modern GTK² or jump straight to SDL. Never in a way that doesn't noticeably chew additional CPU though, and definitely not for both use cases. It upsets me each time I reply "no, not happening without patches". Perhaps it is time to release an Electron version or one that just burns a whole CPU core so it isn't lost forever ;) ¹ It used to just be people with crazy setups, now it is basically any screen given their higher DPI. ² As it is right now I don't even have a system that I can use last release on.

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I have been using gkrellm for at least the last 25 years or so. I very much like being able to see what my system is doing at a glance and no other system monit

by bityard 1y ago

kuschkufan 1y ago
Are you also still running fvwm or wmaker? It kind of integrates not so good in e.g. Gnome`s mutter, yeah?
- Zardoz84 1y ago
  Works fine under KDE/Plasma
- bityard 1y ago
  I've used it on all of the DEs I've had over the years, gnome 1,2,3, MATE, cinnamon, KDE, etc. There's nothing to integrate, it just runs and sits there doing its job.
squarefoot 1y ago
Same here. One of my favorite plugins is BubbleFishyMon which seems funny (and it is: water, air bubbles, fishes and a duck indicating system/memory/network load), until one realizes how much information it can convey with just a brief glance.
- JNRowe 1y ago
  At least once a year for the past couple of decades I'll receive an email from a user that makes me want to modernize bfm¹. However, I've never managed to get an auto-scaling version to work with reasonable performance, which is unbelievably annoying for such a simple tool. You can sort of hit the target for gkrellm-bfm while still depending on GTK2, or for the standalone bubblefishymon wmapplet where you can use a modern GTK² or jump straight to SDL. Never in a way that doesn't noticeably chew additional CPU though, and definitely not for both use cases. It upsets me each time I reply "no, not happening without patches". Perhaps it is time to release an Electron version or one that just burns a whole CPU core so it isn't lost forever ;) ¹ It used to just be people with crazy setups, now it is basically any screen given their higher DPI. ² As it is right now I don't even have a system that I can use last release on.