[clug] really customisable system monitor

[Francis Whittle]

notify-send is handy....

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 23:01 +1000, David Schoen wrote:
> 2009/9/30 Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at gmail.com>:
> > General purpose script for gkrellm:
> >
> > http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/gkrellm-fchart.html
> 
> Not quite. My main requirements are:
> - it can sit unobtrusively in tray (there are ways of munging gkrellm
> to do this, but it's really not designed with that in mind)
> - I can configure polling times for individual scripts (fchart sort of
> meets that)
> - it will notify me if anything breaks away from thresholds (libnotify
> and a change in tray icon status ideally)
> - scripts will be run in the gnome environment (once again fchart only
> sort of meets this as the scripts have to be launched manually)
> 
> The problem with gkrellm is that I would have to integrate chunks of
> it (the stuff to run the fchart scripts in the background) in to my
> regular config, this means that when (not if) I decide to drop it on
> another box I've got a whole bunch of stuff to move around to get it
> all working again, rather than one directory and a single executable
> file to start on login. Also with this solution I would have to make
> sure that every single script is stable and will never fail, I'd
> rather rely on a single piece of common code to check everything
> (including exit status and output arriving at STDERR). That way it
> only has to be gotten right once, not in every monitor script and if
> the common code fails it should be obvious because all monitoring
> stops, not just that one backup script checker I haven't checked in 2
> months.
> 
> 
> Thanks anyway,
> Dave