Another Way to open gkrellm?

[Swollen_Panda_Nutz]

Is there another way of open gkrellm, besides through Eterm? Because everytime i close Eterm after executing gkrellm; gkrellm closes right along with it :confused: Could someone tell why it does this, and how i can get around it...thanx in advance.

[Keyser Soze]

enter this: gkrellm &
then you can close the terminal window, easier still, create a launcher on the desktop for it
command is gkrellm &
give it a icon
make sure to tell it application in the drop down, cause it defaults to url.

good luck'
;)

[Bills_a_bub]

I won't take credit for this since I read it somewhere else (maybe LNO), but place this at the bottom of the .screenrc file in your home directory:

#Add gkrellm monitor to session
/usr/bin/gkrellm-1.0.8/src/gkrellm &

(Note that your path may be different)

This will cause gkrellm to run every time you log in as that user. It won't require a shell to execute.

HTH.

<edit>corrected misspelled file name</edit>

[ 21 May 2001: Message edited by: Bills_a_bub ]

[bdg1983]

I think you could also add the gkrellm & line into your .xinitrc before your window manager... that way it should start every time you startx.

[Keyser Soze]

I am embarrassed now, didn't know that he wanted it every time....I had mine permanent for a while, but it got old I guess. Try it with a launcher first, after a week or two you will probably dump it, easier to delete a shortcut than edit the file(well,not much easier). :)

[bdg1983]

Actually I'm not sure if he wanted it every time... but in case he wants it so... ;)

Anyways, if you don't want it to start always, the launcher thingy is the best in that case.

[Keyser Soze]

Hey, what modules are you guys running in Gkrellm? I might reenable the bloody thing if there is anything good to put on it. The cpu rarely moved above 30% with all of my apps running and since I have a butt load of memory, it really just got annoying watching it not move....

[binary_boy]

Here's what I add to xinitrc to start all kinds of stuff in Blackbox:

sleep 1 && exec wmmount &
sleep 2 && exec wmMixer &
sleep 3 && exec wmxmms &
sleep 4 && exec wmcube &
sleep 5 && exec wmMatrix &
sleep 6 && exec wmMand &
sleep 7 && exec gkrellm &
sleep 8 && exec xmms &
sleep 9 && exec bbpager &

exec blackbox

[Strike]

Originally posted by Keyser Soze:
<STRONG>Hey, what modules are you guys running in Gkrellm? I might reenable the bloody thing if there is anything good to put on it. The cpu rarely moved above 30% with all of my apps running and since I have a butt load of memory, it really just got annoying watching it not move....</STRONG>

Let's see, top to bottom:

hostname
GKrellWeather
CPU
Proc
Disk A usage
Disk B usage
eth0
Mem
Swap
like 7 partitions
GKrellMMS
uptime

It's useful when I do something like apt-get update to have eth0. I can minimize the xterm and then whenever I see the eth0 not pegged, I know it's either done or one of the servers is taking time responding.