and now for something completely different improve your productivity with wmhdplop / gkhdplop

Disclaimer: wmhdplop will not enlarge your hard-drive. Indeed it will not enlarge anything. Please stop sending emails about enlargement, I don't want to be enlarged.

What wmhdplop is yet another /dev/hdx (or /dev/sdx ) writes or reads anything. Try to launch openoffice and enjoy the wmhdplop show! (loading

gkhdplop is the is yet another dockapp for WindowMaker , or any windowmanager/desktop environment that handles dockapps (KDE has a dockbar extension, and gnome swallows ). It monitors your hard-drives by sending visual stimuli to your cortex each time your(or) writes or reads anything. Try to launch openoffice and enjoy the wmhdplop show! (loading these kitties in mozilla also works).is the gkrellm port of wmhdplop. You can thank (or not) dae for this port by sending a short message on his board: Features 0-portability, won't compile/run on anything without a recent kernel (see requirements below)

useless animation reflecting disc I/O.

another useless animation reflecting swap activity.

annoying blinking leds.

a textual information of your harddrive throughput.

supports ide drives, and (not 100% sure) scsi and md arrays.

display of the hd temperature if the hddtemp daemon is running. How wmhdplop as usual: ./configure && make && su -c 'make install' . Take a look at the numerous and glittering options of wmhdplop with the -h flag. Since imlib2 only supports ttf fonts, you may have to download/install some of them (wmhdplop prefers Arial_Black from the If your consider trying wmhdplop, I highly encourage you to install the developpement package of imlib2 . Compile/installas usual:. Take a look at the numerous and glittering options of wmhdplop with theflag. Since imlib2 only supports ttf fonts, you may have to download/install some of them (wmhdplop prefers Arial_Black from the msttcorefonts , or the Vera ones). Get Requirements : gcc

a 2.6 Linux kernel (statistics are in /proc/diskstats ), or a 2.4.20+ kernel with CONFIG_BLK_STATS=y (check the "Per partition statistics in /proc/partitions" entry in the kernel config).

), or a 2.4.20+ kernel with (check the entry in the kernel config). imlib2 devel package. Download changelog)

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