[gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto
the background / root window.

Does anyone know, what application is used for this?

Thanks you very much in advance for any help!
Keep hacking!
mcc


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[Alejandro]

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 conky

Cheers.

2009/9/16 <meino.cramer@gmx.de>

>
> Hi,
>
> on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
> I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
> More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
> system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto
> the background / root window.
>
> Does anyone know, what application is used for this?
>
> Thanks you very much in advance for any help!
> Keep hacking!
> mcc
>
>
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> Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[Willie Wong]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover meino.cramer@gmx.de squawked:
> on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
> I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
> More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
> system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto
> the background / root window.

It may help if you point us to the screen shot. 

But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root
window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the
-w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right
one for the root window :)

http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html
http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/readme.php

W
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[meino.cramer]

Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu> [09-09-16 18:08]:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover meino.cramer@gmx.de squawked:
> > on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
> > I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
> > More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
> > system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto
> > the background / root window.
> 
> It may help if you point us to the screen shot. 
> 
> But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root
> window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the
> -w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right
> one for the root window :)
> 
> http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html
> http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/readme.php
> 
> W
> -- 
> A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
> Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1013 days, 14:53

Hi,

thank you for your posting ! :)

Screenshot? ...oh yes! Sorry...
Here it is (upper left corner):

http://customize.org/thumbnails/larger/53967.jpg

By the way; For an unkown reason to me I am not
able to download any theme from customize org.
Is this a javascript problem? Does anyone else
managed to download a theme from there?



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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400, Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover
> meino.cramer@gmx.de squawked:
>> on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
>> I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
>> More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
>> system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto
>> the background / root window.
> 
> It may help if you point us to the screen shot. 
> 
> But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root
> window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the
> -w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right
> one for the root window :)

Correction, torsmo is gone from portage since at least 3 years ago, conky
was born as a fork of torsmo, and it's being actively developed, while
torsmo has been discontinue upstream.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[Willie Wong]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:18:47PM +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:29 -0400, Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover
> > meino.cramer@gmx.de squawked:
> >> on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
> >> I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
> >> More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
> >> system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto
> >> the background / root window.
> > 
> > It may help if you point us to the screen shot. 
> > 
> > But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root
> > window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the
> > -w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right
> > one for the root window :)
> 
> Correction, torsmo is gone from portage since at least 3 years ago, conky
> was born as a fork of torsmo, and it's being actively developed, while
> torsmo has been discontinue upstream.
> 

Ah... seems that the page I bookmarked in firefox is a bit old ;p
(I did some research on this myself years ago...)
Thanks for the correction. 

Also, looking at the screenshot, it seems my random shot-gun guess
work may be correct in regards to which program it was used...

Best, 

W
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[Matthias Krebs]

> Hi,
> 
> thank you for your posting ! :)
> 
> Screenshot? ...oh yes! Sorry...
> Here it is (upper left corner):
> 
> http://customize.org/thumbnails/larger/53967.jpg
> 
Hi,

looks like a very basic conky configuration

check out this thread for some more advanced examples :

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/59/my-conky-config/

(crunchbang is an ubuntu spinoff which focuses on openbox and lightweight 
apps)

while your at it, check out x11-misc/slim (and x11-themes/slim-themes), its a 
lightweight login manager without gnome or kde dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[Joshua Murphy]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:16 PM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu> [09-09-16 18:08]:
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:51:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover meino.cramer@gmx.de squawked:
>> > on my way to the "best" window manager (at least for my needs ;) )
>> > I came across a lot of screenshots of themes.
>> > More than one screenshot shows something which looks like a
>> > system monitor a la gkrellm but it was painted plain onto
>> > the background / root window.
>>
>> It may help if you point us to the screen shot.
>>
>> But quite a few X applications allow drawing directly to the root
>> window. For example, torsmo and conky (both in portage), supports the
>> -w switch to specify the window id. You just need to specify the right
>> one for the root window :)
>>
>> http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html
>> http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/readme.php
>>
>> W
>> --
>> A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
>> Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1013 days, 14:53
>
> Hi,
>
> thank you for your posting ! :)
>
> Screenshot? ...oh yes! Sorry...
> Here it is (upper left corner):
>
> http://customize.org/thumbnails/larger/53967.jpg
>
> By the way; For an unkown reason to me I am not
> able to download any theme from customize org.
> Is this a javascript problem? Does anyone else
> managed to download a theme from there?
>
>
>
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> unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text.
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>

Definitely conky [1]... and that's a rather minimal config for it.

I use a slightly modified version of the triple setup down at the
bottom of that page [2], and it gives me at-a-glance info on just
about everything related to my little laptop.

As for downloading from customize.org, it doesn't appear to use js at
all in the download... what's the actual effect when you click one of
the d/l links?

[1] http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
[2] http://conky.sourceforge.net/conky-dlab.png

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Rootwindow Sysmon?

[meino.cramer]

Matthias Krebs <matthias.krebs@gmail.com> [09-09-16 19:46]:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > thank you for your posting ! :)
> > 
> > Screenshot? ...oh yes! Sorry...
> > Here it is (upper left corner):
> > 
> > http://customize.org/thumbnails/larger/53967.jpg
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> looks like a very basic conky configuration
> 
> check out this thread for some more advanced examples :
> 
> http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/59/my-conky-config/
> 
> (crunchbang is an ubuntu spinoff which focuses on openbox and lightweight 
> apps)
> 
> while your at it, check out x11-misc/slim (and x11-themes/slim-themes), its a 
> lightweight login manager without gnome or kde dependencies

Hi,

oh yeah! I have already slim running! (not to ibe read as "I am
already running slim!" :O)

Ok...enough nonsense... 

Thanks a lot for all the hints!

Keep hacking!
mcc


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