Copyright (C) 2000-2012 |
Whole document tree
Monitor AppletsBattery Charge Monitor AppletBattery Charge Monitor applet, shown in Figure 1, displays the charge status of your portable computer battery. To learn how to add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Monitors->Battery Charge Monitor.
UsageBattery Charge Monitor just sits in your panel monitoring the status of your computer battery. By left-clicking on the applet you can toggle the view between Readout View and Graph View described in the Readout View and Graph View sections respectively. Readout ViewReadout View, the default mode of view, displays the current battery status in an iconic and textual format. In this mode Battery Charge Monitor displays the following information:
Graph ViewGraph View displays the percentage of charge remaining in your battery as a moving graph. The horizontal axis represents time and the vertical axis represents charge percentage with 100% charged being the top of the graph. By default the graph is green when your computer is connected to the power supply and blue when it isn't. The graph also changes colour when the charge drops below the Low Charge Threshold (see Properties — General) the default colour in this case is red. Figure 14. Battery Charge Monitor in Graph View Right-Click Pop-Up Menu ItemsIn addition to the standard menu items, the right-click pop-up menu has the following item:
PropertiesYou can configure Battery Charge Monitor applet by right-clicking on the applet and choosing the Properties... menu item. This will open the Properties dialog, with four groups of configurable items arranged in the following tabbed pages: General, Readout, Graph and Battery Charge Messages. Properties — General
Properties — ReadoutThe settings on this tab only affect Battery Charge Monitor when it is in Readout View. All of the coloured rectangles on this tab can be left clicked on to display the GNOME colour wheel. This enables you to choose colours that you may prefer more than the defaults.
Properties — GraphThe settings on this tab only affect Battery Charge Monitor when it is in Graph View. All of the coloured rectangles on this tab can be left clicked on to display the GNOME colour wheel. This enables you to choose colours that you may prefer more than the defaults.
Properties — Battery Charge Messages
Known Bugs and LimitationsOne oddity is if you start Battery Charge Monitor on a computer that has no Advanced Power Management support. This causes the Low Battery Warning dialogue box to be displayed which may be mis-leading. AuthorsThis applet was writen by Nat Friedman <nat@nat.org>. Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports. The documentation for this applet which you are reading now was written by James Cope <jcope@bcs.org.uk>.. Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to <docs@gnome.org>. You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table. The CPU load appletThe cpuload_applet is a small monitor applet which sits in your panel and tells you how much CPU is being used. UsageYou don't need to do anything to this applet. It will sit and run in your panel. Various options to alter its display are available. cpuload_applet divides CPU use into four sorts:
Right-Click Pop-Up Menu ItemsIn addition to the standard menu items, the right-click pop-up menu has the following items:
PropertiesLike several of the monitor applets, cpuload_applet has two ways of setting preferences. You can make changes that affect any of this group (cpuload_applet, memload_applet, swapload_applet, netload_applet and loadavg_applet) in one large dialogue box. This is useful if you run one or more of them. These are the settings used by default. They are reached from the Default Properties... menu item. Or you can change just the properties for cpuload_applet. This is useful for when you only use cpuload_applet or want to try new combinations out. It is reached from the Properties menu item.
The changes you can make to the properties are three:
Known Bugs and LimitationsResizing and then altering the panel orientation can result in intermittent problems, although they now fix themselves after a short period. AuthorsThis applet was writen by Martin Baulig (<martin@home-of-linux.org>). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports. This manual was written by Telsa Gywnne (<telsa@linuxchix.org>) and Eric Baudais (<baudais@okstate.edu>). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to <docs@gnome.org>. You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table. The CPU and memory usage appletThe cpumemusage_applet is a small monitor applet which sits in your panel and tells you about your machine's use of CPU, memory and swap. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Monitors->CPU/MEM usage. UsageYou don't need to do anything to this applet. It will sit and run in your panel. The applet shows three bar charts, for CPU, memory and swap space. If your panel is horizontal, the top bar is CPU, the middle is memory, and the bottom is swap. If your panel is vertical, the left bar is CPU, the middle is memory, and the right is swap.
Known Bugs and LimitationsThere are no known bugs for this applet. AuthorsThis applet was writen by Radek Doulik (<rodo@ucw.cz>). Please report problems with it to the GNOME bug tracking system. You can do this by following the guidelines on that site or by using bug-buddy from the command-line. For the package, put gnome-applets. This guide was written by Telsa Gwynne (<telsa@linuxchix.org>) and Eric Baudais (<baudais@okstate.edu>) and is almost entirely based on the earlier documentation from the GNOME 1.0.53 User's Guide by David Mason (<dcm@redhat.com>) and David Wheeler. Please report problems with or suggestions for it to the GNOME Documentation Project (<docs@gnome.org>). You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table. Disk Usage AppletDisk Usage Applet, shown in Figure 24, provides a panel monitor for the amount of space in use and available on your disk drives. To add this applet to the panel, right-click on the panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Monitors->Disk Usage UsageDisk Usage Applet provides real-time monitoring of the available space on your disk drives. It provides three pieces of information. The colored pie graphically represents how much space is used and how much is available. MP: indicates the mount point of the disk it is currently monitoring. av: indicates the amount of space available on the selected drive, in kilobytes. Clicking on the applet changes the drive being monitored. Doing so repeatedly cycles through all available drives. Right-clicking on the applet brings up a menu containing the following items:
CustomizationYou can customize Disk Usage Applet by right-clicking on it and choosing Properties. This will launch the Properties… dialog, which allows you to change various settings. The properties are:
After you have made all the choices you want, click on OK to make the changes and close the Properties dialog. To cancel the changes and return to previous values, click on Cancel button. AuthorsDisk Usage Applet was written by Dave Finton <dfinton@d.umn.edu>, Bruno Widmann <bwidmann@tks.fh-sbg.ac.at> and Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org>. Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports. This manual was written by John Fleck (<jfleck@inkstain.net>). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to <docs@gnome.org>. You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table. The load average appletThe loadavg_applet is a small monitor applet which sits in your panel and tells you the current load average. The load average of a machine is a rather arbitrary number which represents how "busy" your machine is. It is calculated as an average of (very roughly) how many processes there are which are either running or are waiting for a wake-up call from the kernel. It is very useful for comparing over time with different load averages on your machine, but it is not very useful to compare it with other machines. Normally, it is represented as a fraction. UsageYou don't need to do anything to this applet. It will sit and run in your panel. Various options to alter its display are available. Right-Click Pop-Up Menu ItemsIn addition to the standard menu items, the right-click pop-up menu has the following items:
PropertiesLike several of the monitor applets, loadavg_applet has two ways of setting preferences. You can make changes that affect any of this group of applets, (cpuload_applet, memload_applet, swapload_applet, netload_applet and loadavg_applet) in one large dialogue box. This is useful if you run one or more of them. These are the settings used by default. They are reached from the Default Properties... menu item. Or you can change just the properties for loadavg_applet. This is useful for when you only use loadavg_applet or want to try new combinations out. It is reached from the Properties menu item.
The changes you can make to the properties are four:
Known Bugs and LimitationsResizing and then altering the panel orientation can still cause intermittent problems, although they now fix themselves after a short period. AuthorsThis applet was writen by Martin Baulig (<martin@home-of-linux.org>). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports. This manual was written by Telsa Gwynne (<telsa@linuxchix.org>) and Eric Baudais (<baudais@okstate.edu>). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to <docs@gnome.org>. You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table. The memory load appletThe memload_applet is a small monitor applet which sits in your panel and tells you how much memory is being used. UsageYou don't need to do anything to this applet. It will sit and run in your panel. Various options to alter its display are available. The applet shows four different uses of memory:
Right-Click Pop-Up Menu ItemsIn addition to the standard menu items, the right-click pop-up menu has the following items:
PropertiesLike several of the monitor applets, memload_applet has two ways of setting preferences. You can make changes that affect any of this group of applets (cpuload_applet, memload_applet, swapload_applet, netload_applet and loadavg_applet) in one large dialogue box. This is useful if you run one or more of them. These are the settings used by default. They are reached from the Default Properties... menu item. Or you can change just the properties for memload_applet. This is useful for when you only use memload_applet or want to try new combinations out. It is reached from the Properties menu item.
The changes you can make to the properties are three:
Known Bugs and LimitationsResizing and then altering the panel orientation can still cause intermittent problems, although they now fix themselves after a short period. AuthorsThis applet was writen by Martin Baulig (<martin@home-of-linux.org>). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports. This manual was written by Telsa Gywnne (<telsa@linuxchix.org>) and Eric Baudais (<baudais@okstate.edu>). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to <docs@gnome.org>. You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table. The net load appletThe netload_applet is a small monitor applet which sits in your panel and tells you about the load on different network interfaces. UsageYou don't need to do anything to this applet. It will sit and run in your panel. Various options to alter its display are available. It displays details for four different types of network interfaces:
If you have two interfaces of the same type running (for example, two ethernet interfaces talking to different machines), what is displayed is the sum total of the two. The applet will not divide it into two sections. Right-Click Pop-Up Menu ItemsIn addition to the standard menu items, the right-click pop-up menu has the following items:
PropertiesLike several of the monitor applets, netload_applet has two ways of setting preferences. You can make changes that affect all of this applet group (cpuload_applet, memload_applet, swapload_applet, netload_applet and loadavg_applet) in one large dialogue box. This is useful if you run one or more of them. These are the settings used by default. They are reached from the Default Properties... menu item. Or you can change just the properties for netload_applet. This is useful for when you only use netload_applet or want to try new combinations out. It is reached from the Properties menu item.
The changes you can make to the properties are three:
Known Bugs and LimitationsResizing and then altering the panel orientation can still cause intermittent problems, although they now fix themselves after a short period. AuthorsThis applet was writen by Martin Baulig (<martin@home-of-linux.org>). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports. This manual was written by Telsa Gywnne (<telsa@linuxchix.org>) and Eric Baudais (<baudais@okstate.edu>). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to <docs@gnome.org>. You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table. The swap load appletThe swapload_applet is a small monitor applet which sits in your panel and tells you how much swap space is being used. The swap space is a part of the hard drive which is not part of the filesystem. When the kernel decides a program in memory is not being used a lot but might be required soon, it takes parts of the program out of memory and puts those into the swap space, where it can easily retrieve it. Moving data between memory and swap can be slow, so if you are using a lot of your swap space, you may find the machine's reaction slows. UsageYou don't need to do anything to this applet. It will sit and run in your panel. Various options to alter its display are available. Right-Click Pop-Up Menu ItemsIn addition to the standard menu items, the right-click pop-up menu has the following items:
PropertiesLike several of the monitor applets, swapload_applet has two ways of setting preferences. You can make changes that affect all of this group (cpuload_applet, memload_applet, swapload_applet, netload_applet and loadavg_applet) in one large dialogue box. This is useful if you run one or more of them. These are the settings used by default. They are reached from the Default Properties... menu item. Or you can change just the properties for swapload_applet. This is useful for when you only use swapload_applet or want to try new combinations out. It is reached from the Properties menu item.
The changes you can make to the properties are three:
Known Bugs and LimitationsResizing and then altering the panel orientation can still cause intermittent problems, although they now fix themselves after a short period. AuthorsThis applet was writen by Martin Baulig (<martin@home-of-linux.org>). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports. This manual was written by Telsa Gywnne (<telsa@linuxchix.org>) and Eric Baudais (<baudais@okstate.edu>). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to <docs@gnome.org>. You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table.
|