by Morgan Aldridge morgant@makkintosshu.com
A set of Xosview2 additions for MLVWM (specifically mlvwmrc), incl. MenuExtras which show graphs of:
- System load
- Memory usage
- Swap usage
- Filesystem usage
- Page activity
- Disk activity
- Network activity
The following will install the appropriate MenuExtras in ~/.mlvwm/MenuExtras:
make install
Edit your ~/.mlvwm/MenuBar file to insert any of the following MenuExtras you'd like to use:
Read .mlvwm/MenuExtras/xosview2-disk
Read .mlvwm/MenuExtras/xosview2-filesys
Read .mlvwm/MenuExtras/xosview2-load
Read .mlvwm/MenuExtras/xosview2-mem
Read .mlvwm/MenuExtras/xosview2-net
Read .mlvwm/MenuExtras/xosview2-page
Read .mlvwm/MenuExtras/xosview2-swap
Note: You may make copies of the xosview2-filesys & xosview2-net MenuExtras and edit to show graphs of specific filesystem mount points or network interfaces, respectively. See those MenuExtras for details.
Then restart mlvwm.
You can change the color scheme of the various graphs using xosview2 Xresources. I suggest doing so by creating a ~/.Xresources.xosview2 file and importing it into your primary .Xresources/.Xdefautls file, as follows:
! Xosview2 Xresources
#include ".Xresources.xosview2"
Note: This will allow you to override colors and a number of defaults, but be aware that all meters will be shown in graph format due to the way that xosview2_mini is used.
A good starting point for the mlvwmrc 'System7' theme is as follows:
xosview*background: white
xosview*foreground: white
xosview*meterLabelColor: black
xosview*usedLabelColor: black
And, a good starting point for the mlvwmrc 'MacOS 8' & 'MacOS 9' themes are as follows:
xosview*background: #dddddd
xosview*foreground: #dddddd
xosview*meterLabelColor: black
xosview*usedLabelColor: black
You can merge your .Xresources/.Xdefaults changes by logging out and back in, or using one of the following commands (replacing .Xresources with .Xdefaults, if appropriate):
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
Or:
xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
Released under the MIT License.