Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

kyle_white · Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 3

I've just started with puppy and love it for my laptop. One thing I wanted from other WMs is cpu, memory, and net monitors in the tray. I couldn't find any after some searching (but found information on how to swallow xload) so I made my own from XCpuload and XNetload. They were compiled on Debian Lenny, since I couldn't get xmkmf working on puppy, but they are working on my 4.21. I'm not sure if there's any dependencies which aren't in 4.21 native, if anyone figures some out they can add to this post. I've added several options to each program so they can be better formatted. Install these and put this into your .jwmrc-tray file

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Hello kyle_white

Yep, installed and configured all good on a puppy derivative.. spup, from BarryK's woof. One problem.. I'm running an old P111 600 and the cpu seems maxed out in the meter the whole time. Is there a way to scale this? (Is it in the options?)

Same with a 1725MHz Athlon

Cheers, nice work. Smile

disciple · Posted: Sun 26 Jul 2009, 05:22 Post subject:

xcpuload doesn't seem to show the CPU usage as a percentage or anything. It just shows the actual CPU clock speed. So it is only useful if you are running a laptop with frequency scaling enabled, which means that your CPU slows down when it is not busy, to save power.

disciple · Posted: Sun 26 Jul 2009, 05:27 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

disciple,

BarryK · Posted: Sun 26 Jul 2009, 06:05 Post subject:

kyle_white,
That's great, always good to have more stuff for the tray.
Would you mind posting the modified source too, for gpl we always must have the source code available.

kyle_white · Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 3

I modified xcpuload into xmemload. Had some bugs for the first go round with it but it seems to be working. I just did quick hack jobs to the source of all three of the files, but I'll get them tar'd up, hacks and all, and post them soon. xmemload uses /proc/meminfo. I'm going to look at conky and the xfce applets to see if I can't fix xcpuload to use kernel information for the graph.

Edit: I've fixed up xcpuload to use info from /proc/stat and /proc/cpuinfo. Hopefully it'll work the same as conky now. I've also attached the source for each.

Here's what I have in my jwmrc-tray

trio · Posted: Thu 30 Jul 2009, 09:08 Post subject:

great effort, now, do you plan to modify a new one? what puppy don't have is wireless strength applet..

disciple · Posted: Fri 31 Jul 2009, 02:41 Post subject:

What everyone always wants is one to show CPU usage as a percentage... I imagine it shouldn't be too hard to do.

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 1447 Location: England

Thanks.

Can you add the option to chose which bits of text to show eg just the percentage please Smile

Also so for xnetload options you need -if <INTERFACE>

so...