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anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 214

What program is this?

Hi,

could someone tell me what nifty transparent system monitoring app is displayed in this screenshot (left top)?
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/zoom.php … luxbox.jpg

I'd like to install it as well, but I don't know its name

Thanks
Rogier

luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: What program is this?

Hi anadyr,
it should be conky:

pacman -S conky

paul_au

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Registered: 2006-04-13

Posts: 38

Re: What program is this?

for different configs people use have a look at:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39906

anadyr

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Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 214

Re: What program is this?

I installed it, and after some tweaking it looks really nice. But now I am ready for the next step: using a script so that I can see my gmail inbox. I downloaded a script from the conky website (gmail.pl), but I don'y understand this info:

# Put this in ~/.gmail/ and use "crontab -e" to add something like
# "* * * * * ~/.gmail/gmail.pl > /dev/null" to run it every minute.
# ${exec cat ~/.gmail/.gmail_top} shows your inbox in Conky.

So I added it in ~/.gmail, but I don't know what " use "crontab -e" to add something like "* * * * * ~/.gmail/gmail.pl > /dev/null" means, And now, I do not have a .gmail_top which can be executed from .conkyrc.

What command should I exactly issue, and how do I get a .gmail_top executable?

Thanks
Rogier

sunn

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From: Norway

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 41

Re: What program is this?

Without actually looking at the script, it seems like gmail.pl checks your your gmail account, and writes something (my guess is the subject of the emails or something like that) to ~/.gmail/.gmail_top. .gmail_top seems to be a text file - not an executable, as you're using cat to print it in conky.

Adding "* * * * * ~/.gmail/gmail.pl > /dev/null" to your crontab will, as it says, run the script it every minute, updating ~/.gmail/.gmail_top, and send any output to /dev/null. You can read about the crontab file syntax in the crontab man page.

peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 936

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Re: What program is this?

cron will execute commands at given times. You tell it which commands to execute when in the crontab file, which you edit with "$ crontab -e". Try

$ man cron
$ man crontab