[arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good KDE applet for monitoring system activty, similar to the GNOME one. I'd really like to be able to see CPU load, memory usage and network activity.
I am running vanilla KDE 4.1.3 (not kdemod).
-- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg
Maybe this would be alright? http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+System+Monitor?content=86664
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Leonid Grinberg lgrinberg@gmail.comwrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good KDE applet for monitoring system activty, similar to the GNOME one. I'd really like to be able to see CPU load, memory usage and network activity.
I am running vanilla KDE 4.1.3 (not kdemod).
-- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg
Hi all,
Thanks for your replies.
Maybe this would be alright? http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+System+Monitor?content=86664
The download link seems to be broken (the .skz file is missing most of the source).
plasma has a system monitor applet for some time now. You should check kdeplasma-addons package, although it might still be in playground, thus not packaged in standard repos.
I have kdeplasma-addons 4.1.3-1 installed and there is no system monitor.
Unfortunately, this set of monitor applets lacks memory usage. Youll find network, cpu, disk space, temperature and informations.
I think the system monitor is coming back in 4.2. but I don't have a handy link for that.
Yeah, I also got kdeplasma-addons but it doesn't have a system monitor. Ah well, I guess I'll wait until 4.2 :-/
Thanks anyway, Leonid Grinberg
On Sunday 28 December 2008 17:16, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for your replies.
Maybe this would be alright? http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+System+Monitor?content=86 664
The download link seems to be broken (the .skz file is missing most of the source).
plasma has a system monitor applet for some time now. You should check kdeplasma-addons package, although it might still be in playground, thus not packaged in standard repos.
I have kdeplasma-addons 4.1.3-1 installed and there is no system monitor.
Unfortunately, this set of monitor applets lacks memory usage. Youll find network, cpu, disk space, temperature and informations.
I think the system monitor is coming back in 4.2. but I don't have a handy link for that.
Yeah, I also got kdeplasma-addons but it doesn't have a system monitor. Ah well, I guess I'll wait until 4.2 :-/
Thanks anyway, Leonid Grinberg
Hi Leonid.
Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm. I've used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable.
Nigel.
Hi Nigel,
Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm. I've used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable.
Thanks a lot! That is very close to what I'm looking for, but is there any way to have it act as a widget in the panel?
-- Leonid
On Sunday 28 December 2008 17:46, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Hi Nigel,
Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm. I've used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable.
Thanks a lot! That is very close to what I'm looking for, but is there any way to have it act as a widget in the panel?
-- Leonid
Hi Leonid.
I somehow doubt it, as it's not a KDE app, but I could well be wrong. I've always had it up on the desktop, on all my distros. I have a whole bunch of distros on my 3 machines, and use static IP addresses for them. There is a nice plugin "gkrellmip", that displays the IP address of the current OS that is booted up, so I find it quite usefull when wanting to transfer files via FTP, or want to SSH into a machine, as the IP addresses of all the machines are displayed on the desktop.
Of course, it shows up in the panel, as all open desktop apps do, and you can obviously minimise it out of the way, but I'm sure that, that's not really what you're looking for.
All the best.
Nigel.
I somehow doubt it, as it's not a KDE app, but I could well be wrong. I've always had it up on the desktop, on all my distros. I have a whole bunch of distros on my 3 machines, and use static IP addresses for them. There is a nice plugin "gkrellmip", that displays the IP address of the current OS that is booted up, so I find it quite usefull when wanting to transfer files via FTP, or want to SSH into a machine, as the IP addresses of all the machines are displayed on the desktop.
Of course, it shows up in the panel, as all open desktop apps do, and you can obviously minimise it out of the way, but I'm sure that, that's not really what you're looking for.
You're right, it's not quite what I'm looking for. Thanks anyway -- I'll probably just wait until 4.2.
-- Best, Leonid
On Sunday 28 of December 2008 17:46:55 Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Hi Nigel,
Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm. I've used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable.
Thanks a lot! That is very close to what I'm looking for, but is there any way to have it act as a widget in the panel?
-- Leonid
Hi Leonid,
it is possible to set gkrellm not to show on the panel. just go to configuration, and in section general, under properties are options like "Do not include on taskbar" and "Do not include on pager".
Ota
Hi Ota,
it is possible to set gkrellm not to show on the panel. just go to configuration, and in section general, under properties are options like "Do not include on taskbar" and "Do not include on pager".
I think you misunderstood me -- I wanted it to act like something in the panel, e.g. keyboard indicator or clock. A widget, basically.
-- Leonid
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Leonid Grinberg lgrinberg@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Ota,
it is possible to set gkrellm not to show on the panel. just go to configuration, and in section general, under properties are options like "Do not include on taskbar" and "Do not include on pager".
I think you misunderstood me -- I wanted it to act like something in the panel, e.g. keyboard indicator or clock. A widget, basically.
-- Leonid
Sorry for the misunderstanding :-[, I can see what you ment now.
Ota
plasma has a system monitor applet for some time now. You should check kdeplasma-addons package, although it might still be in playground, thus not packaged in standard repos. Unfortunately, this set of monitor applets lacks memory usage. Youll find network, cpu, disk space, temperature and informations.
Regards,
Charly
On Sunday 28 December 2008 06:22:24 Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good KDE applet for monitoring system activty, similar to the GNOME one. I'd really like to be able to see CPU load, memory usage and network activity.
I am running vanilla KDE 4.1.3 (not kdemod).
-- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg
On Sunday 28 December 2008 20:08:32 Charly Ghislain wrote:
plasma has a system monitor applet for some time now. You should check kdeplasma-addons package, although it might still be in playground, thus not packaged in standard repos.
I have kdeplasma-addons 4.1.3-1 installed and there is no system monitor.
Unfortunately, this set of monitor applets lacks memory usage. Youll find network, cpu, disk space, temperature and informations.
I think the system monitor is coming back in 4.2. but I don't have a handy link for that.
On Sunday 28 December 2008 06:22:24 Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good KDE applet for monitoring system activty, similar to the GNOME one. I'd really like to be able to see CPU load, memory usage and network activity.
I am running vanilla KDE 4.1.3 (not kdemod).
At the moment I use two applets for that: a simple system monitor [1] and a network plotter [2]. There are other similar applets though, like [3] and [4].
[1] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/System+Status?content=74891 [2] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/plasma-netgraph?content=74071 [3] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/SystemMonitorNG?content=94746 [4] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Simple+monitor?content=84933
Kind regards,
Hello,
Thanks a lot for those suggestions. These will do wonderfully for now. Both have packages in AUR, too!
[2] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/plasma-netgraph?content=74071
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19238
[3] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/SystemMonitorNG?content=94746
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22130
-- Best, Leonid Grinberg
Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good KDE applet for monitoring system activty, similar to the GNOME one. I'd really like to be able to see CPU load, memory usage and network activity.
I am running vanilla KDE 4.1.3 (not kdemod).
-- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg
I currently use separate applets: qps to monitor cpu load, the KDE system monitor applet to monitor memory, and knetworkmanager to monitor whether my network is connected or not (I don't really care about activity). KNemo is another option for network monitoring, though it basically just shows you a toggle (on or off) when there's network activity, and not a graph spark line.
HTH,
DR
participants (8)
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Allan Lavell
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Bram Schoenmakers
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Charly Ghislain
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David Rosenstrauch
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Leonid Grinberg
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Nigel Henry
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Otakar Truněček
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Shridhar Daithankar