On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:33:22 -0500 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:22:50PM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a > > toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal > > glasses, I have to strain my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce > > toolbar at the TOP of the screen through the LOWER area of my > > glasses. > > You can either move the toolbar or create a second one at the > bottom. Right click in an empty area of the toolbar (XFCE calls > it a panel) and you should see options. > > > > The second shortcoming of Xfce is (at least by it's defaults) that > > little attention seems to have been given to the convenient > > possibilties of the keyboard; once your fingers know their > > handling, they operate independently of your brain, and you can > > focus on your problems instead of being permanently distracted by > > those positioning demands of your mouse. > > There's a shortcut-key editor with quite a lot of control; no, > it's not fully set up by default. > > > Another exemplary feature of Icewm that I would like to find again > > under Xfce, are those 3 tiny 5mm-squares(!) placed next to the > > digital clock into the toolbar, showing permanently the main > > activities of the system, each using specially coloured top-down > > rsp. bottom-up indexes: > > > > Square One shows the load of CPU, HDD and RAM. > > > > Square Two shows (if active) both, the sending and receiving load > > of LAN. > > > > Square Three shows (if active) both, the sending and receiving load > > of WAN (including modem activities). > > > > Alltogether, they use up just 2 cm of the toolbar, yet giving > > instantly a detailed insight of all important system activities - > > and problems. > > If you add the system monitors to a panel, you'll discover that > right-clicking on them allows a bit of configurability, > including removing labels and making things smaller. Might not > be exactly what you want, but it might be close enough. Another thing you might want to look at for resource monitoring is gkrellm or conky. I like gkrellm better, but YMMV. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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