Conky

I love system monitors (I use Statbar in Windows XP) and I really enjoy looking at all the numbers and stuff go by.

Type sudo apt-get install conky in a terminal window and you will have conky installed. It is small, text based and works well without draining the resources on my eeepc.

Here is my .conkyrc script (it is a hidden file in the home folder)

background yes

use_xft yes

xftfont HandelGotD:size=8

xftalpha 0.5

update_interval 2.0

total_run_times 0

own_window yes

own_window_type normal

own_window_transparent yes

own_window_color black

own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

double_buffer yes

minimum_size 170 5

maximum_width 195

draw_shades no

draw_outline yes

draw_borders no

draw_graph_borders yes

default_color green

default_shade_color white

default_outline_color black

alignment top_right

gap_x 5

gap_y 5

no_buffers yes

uppercase no

cpu_avg_samples 2

override_utf8_locale no

format_human_readable yes

TEXT

SYSTEM ${hr 2}

PC Name: ${alignr} ${nodename}

User Name: ${alignr} ${user_names}

CPU: ${cpu cpu0}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu0 8,60}

${cpugraph F57900 FCAF3E}

CPU Frequency: ${alignr} $freq MHZ

CPU Temp: ${alignr} $acpitemp degrees

RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}

SWAP: $swapperc% ${alignr}${swapbar 8,60}

Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}

Battery: ${alignr}$battery_short

PROCESSES ${hr 2}

Running Processes: $alignr $running_processes

Running Threads: $alignr $running_threads

$alignr PID CPU

${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}

${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}

${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}

HDD ${hr 2}

Root: ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60}

Partition Size: ${alignr}$fs_size

Free Space: ${alignr}$fs_free

NETWORK ${hr 2}

Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}

Down: ${downspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}

Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth0}

Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth0}

Local Ip: ${alignr}${addr eth0}

This script is a mix of things I found from another person's conky file (a great coder borrows code, not steals it) and stuff that I added later. It is not perfect, more like a work in progress. The eeepc has a very small screen and it's not always possible to do what you want to with it.

Do you use conky? Or a similar / different program?