Menumeters alternative code#

Menumeters alternative code#

I emailed the author of MenuMeters and asked his opinion on porting the app over to Linux since the source code is there for download (MenuMeters is a GPL app) but, haven't heard back. Yeah, I know all those other people use Conky, etc, was just hoping someone out there had more relevant info. Is it really that hard to create a tool with similar functionality on a Linux installation? I know the MenuMeters source code is freely available but, I'm not a programmer and I wouldn't have any clue where to start - not to mention it's written for the OSX platform (which is BSD derived, iirc so the potential for compiling it for Linux operation could be there).įor those more wise than I in the ways of Linux-fu, can anyone offer some tips or advice to get something that works just like MenuMeters, or some suggestions about how I might be able to best modify or create something for use with Conky or some other similar tool that would provide the same or almost the same functionality that MenuMeters does? I've looked over countless screenshots all over the place at a handful of forums and websites, and I've still never seen anything like MenuMeters on any Linux distro ever. I know I can just throw System Monitor up there on the panel but, it looks hideous, it's always just graphs, it won't display actual numbers/stats which are what I prefer, etc. I'm trying to locate something similar for Linux (I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 as the base OS currently), but what I keep finding references to are Conky and other apps like it, and it seems (based on research) that Conky isn't designed for displaying the info in the the taskbar like MenuMeters does.

So it offers a lot of functionality in a tiny app, but that's on OSX. I figure a click on the meter would bring up System Monitor anyway like the standard Gnome System Monitor panel applet does. I'm not really concerned with the flyout-stats (the larger window with the far more detailed information) but it would be useful as well. If I can get something that covers a few of those stats I'd be one happy camper, indeed. CPU activity/usage (displayed as percentage of max) 'LED' disk activity indicators (green is reading, red is writing) memory usage (as U: for used and F: for free) network activity (as actual numbers for Tx and Rx as bytes/s)