The Hardware Monitor applet is a small program for the Gnome panel. You can use it to monitor various hardware aspects. It's smoother and more flexible than the default offering in GNOME.
Take a look at the screenshots page for an idea of how it looks like. The features section below has more information.
Version 1.4.2 fixes compilation on latest GNOME (patch by Make Auty) and is updated to lm-sensors 3.x API (reported by Francisco Pina Martins). There are also a couple of translation updates.
Version 1.4.1 contains a couple of bug fixes (patches from Simon Wenner and Christof Krüger) and lots of translation updates.
Version 1.4 adds a vertical version of the bar viewer by patch from Emmanuel Rodriguez. Fixes wrong counting of CPU time with new libgtop. Translation updates.
Version 1.3 takes advantage of new API in gtkmm 2.6 to get rid of the dependency on libgnomemm and libgnomeuimm. Included are also some bug fixes and lots of translation updates. Use version 1.2.1 if you do not have gtkmm 2.6 yet.
Version 1.2.1 is a bug fix release. Lots of translations updated too.
The applet supports various viewers which you can switch between easily (all are animated smoothly):
A graphical view where each monitor is represented by a (time, measurement) colored curve
A bar-plot view with a horisontal or vertical bar per monitor
A column view with a column (time, measurement) diagram for each monitor
A textual view which simply lists the monitors and the currently measured values
A flame view which produces spiffy flames, the sizes of which are determined by the values of the monitored device
And the applet supports monitoring the following hardware characteristics:
CPU usage (all CPUs, or one at the time) - low-priority background processes such as SETI@home are automatically ignored
Memory usage - cache and buffers are automatically ignored
Swap usage
Load average
Disk usage (or disk space free)
Network throughput (Ethernet, wireless, modem, serial link), either incoming or outgoing or both
Temperatures from internal sensors (e.g. system board and CPU temperatures)
Fan speeds from internal sensors
To avoid eating CPU time when it is scarce, the applet lowers its priority.
Released source tarballs are here. The latest development source is also available from the GNOME SVN as the module "hardware-monitor". The module can be browsed online.
Requirements: at least a Gnome 2.6 desktop including libpanel-applet 2 and libgtop 2.6 and version 2.6 of the C++ wrappers for GTK+/GNOME (i.e. gtkmm, gconfmm, libglademm, libgnomecanvasmm). For monitoring temperatures and fan speeds, you need libsensors.
Send bug reports to olau at hardworking.dk (replacing "at" with @). Please include the words "Hardware Monitor" or something like that in the subject line - I get a lot of spam, and I might accidentally delete your message else.
Development has been dormant for some time now. I'm looking for someone to hand the maintainership over to. Please contact me if you are interested.
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