GTK Krell Monitors

The original author of gkrellm, Bill Wilson, also made PiKrellCam. &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;billw2.github.io&#x2F;pikrellcam&#x2F;pikrellcam.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;billw2.github.io&#x2F;pikrellcam&#x2F;pikrellcam.html</a>&gt;<p>Which was&#x2F;is the best Raspberry Pi Audio&#x2F;Video Recording, OSD Motion Detect Program. It was made to run perfectly on a RPI Zero with its limited CPU and memory.<p>I was very sad to learn that Bill passed away in Oct 2021. &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;billw2&#x2F;pikrellcam&#x2F;issues&#x2F;78#issuecomment-972114972">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;billw2&#x2F;pikrellcam&#x2F;issues&#x2F;78#issuecomment-...</a>&gt;<p>I&#x27;m glad gkrellm got a new maintainer and continues to exist.

What a blast from the past! Stoked it’s still under development!<p>Had a look for the etymology of “Krell” - in the readme it mentions “GKrellM - keeping an eye on your computer’s Id”.<p>Seems to be a reference to this 1956 movie, Forbidden Planet &#x2F; Monsters from the Id: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;guidetomonsters.com&#x2F;html&#x2F;50s&#x2F;Id%20Monster.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;guidetomonsters.com&#x2F;html&#x2F;50s&#x2F;Id%20Monster.html</a><p>Can I get a fact check?

If you&#x27;re looking for an OSS project to contribute, GKrellM needs your help! It is still using GTK2 which is deprecated and will go away sooner or later.<p>Patches are welcome! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.srcbox.net&#x2F;gkrellm&#x2F;gkrellm&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.srcbox.net&#x2F;gkrellm&#x2F;gkrellm&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1</a>

Aahh this brings back memories. I first started out using Linux on my desktop and I found this fancy system monitor that made my desktop look cool. There&#x27;s a section which displays filesystem usage with a button that allows mounting&#x2F;unmounting with a click. I used it to mount floppy disks but it wasn&#x27;t working for me, so I read the source to figure out what was wrong, then emailed Bill to contribute a patch to fix it.<p>It was one of my first open source contributions, and it was then that I understood the value of open source - being able to read the code, debug and then fix it yourself (and for others).

I used this back in the days and it was awesome. Sadly after the dawn of tiling window managers this is obsolete since you will never really see it as windows always takes full screen. If anyone knows how to make it play well with i3wm or awesome wm, let me know, would gladly use this again.

I ran this thing with slackware and window manager back in the day. My goodness, I have forgotten about this entirely.<p>I might have to spin it up for fun.<p>For all the nix fols, &quot;nix run nixpkgs#gkrellm&quot; works =P

These days it is one of the most underrated tool! I never has a problem with it under any DE or WM.<p>FWIW, it is still bundled with Slackware.

I used to run this, but once systems started having 20 cpu cores, and 12 hard drives, it wouldn&#x27;t fit on the screen anymore... sadly conky has the same issue.

Wow, it’s funny because the last time I ran gkrellm was 23 years ago when I first started using Linux and I thought I was a l33t h4x0r…<p>And just today, now that I actually write code for a living and use Linux on my work machine, I found myself really wanting a good display to tell me when my memory usage was growing.[0] I was using the gnome activity monitor but it takes up way too much screen space and was always behind the window I was using. It looks like this could actually be useful for me to run now!<p>[0] I was running a local kubernetes cluster with an opentracing implementation, where I hadn’t quite worked out the configs for memory usage yet, and it kept spiking and OOMing when I wasn’t looking. It’s fun when your mouse cursor just stops moving and you’re wondering whether you need to hold down the power button or what…

It has a client&#x2F;server mode. I used to run the server on my wrt54g and the GUI client on my desktop.

I loved this tool. Always ran it with fluxbox as the WM.

I have been using gkrellm for at least the last 25 years or so. I very much like being able to see what my system is doing at a glance and no other system monitor comes close to being both as detailed and compact.

I&#x27;m 19 years old, kde3 is just out and compiling it with objprelink makes it go brr, gkrellm on the side of my desktop, XMMS and a playlist of ripped CDs and assorted downloads, Quake II deathmatch is as fun as it ever was, I have no real worries and make just enough to never skimp for a beer or two. Life is good. Thanks for the memories ;)

I have been using this software continuously for close to 20 years. My desktop doesn&#x27;t feel right without it. Thank you Bill Wilson!

gkrellm used to be a mainstay on my desktops in the early 2000s, such a nice throwback. For extra vintage goodness, I also recommend xosview [0], even better when using a Motif-styled window manager. I actually wonder what either of them would look like on a system with, say, an Epyc 9965 or similar (192 cores) or a system with four or more sockets.<p>ah, nostalgia for that feeling working on systems that looked like that.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pogo.org.uk&#x2F;~mark&#x2F;xosview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pogo.org.uk&#x2F;~mark&#x2F;xosview&#x2F;</a>

I have used gkrellm since 1998 when my preferred wm was blackbox and playing MP3s in xmms was cool. Still run it today on Cinnamon. RIP Bill and thanks for the OSS contribution of a lifetime!

Thanks for the memory lane drive. I used to run this on FreeBSD desktop under fluxbox wm wayyy back, I think in 2004. So cool.

I had no issues running these kind of monitors on crappy single-core Pentium 3 laptops, yet these days I avoid monitoring widgets because I feel they&#x27;re too heavy and unnecessary bloat. To be fair, these days they&#x27;re probably written in Electron or Python, compared to efficient C.