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squarefoot on July 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)

Possibly not old enough to be included in that list, but my oldest piece of desktop software I always run on my main machine is GKrellm with BubbleFishyMon as system load monitor.

http://gkrellm.srcbox.net/

philsnow on July 13, 2023 [–]

This is giving me strong nostalgia, I loved gkrellm ~20 years ago because of how densely it showed information. I stopped using it eventually because it used a non-trivial amount of CPU just displaying stuff.

squarefoot on July 13, 2023 | [–]

I noticed this too, but setting refresh to low values, like 5 per second, reduces considerably the CPU use.

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