[plug] Hard drive monitor

[Ben New]

Steve Boak wrote:

>Hi and seasons greetings
>
>Has anyone seen/played with this little utility?
>
>http://hules.free.fr/wmhdplop/
>
><quote> 
>wmhdplop 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 (in this case, "wmhdplop -t -d /dev/hda &" from a terminal)time your /dev/hdx writes or reads anything.
></qote>
>
>Plus it appears to display the drive temperature, which is what I was really 
>looking fo(in this case, "wmhdplop -t -d /dev/hda &" from a terminal)r.
>
>Steve
>  
>
Just got it running under KDE now...  ooooh pretty!  I haven't got it 
showing the temperature though, even though hddtemp works fine on its own.

If only the KDE dockbar would go /inside/ the KDE panel...  In fact the 
whole dockbar extension looks like a bit of a hack - it doesn't seem to 
respond to any mouse events like the real dockbar does.  At least it can 
be set so that maximised windows cover it.

(I couldn't find any answers using Google on how to actually get docked 
applications running in KDE when it was actually quite simple, so for 
the record:)
1. KDE Panel -> context (right click) menu -> Add -> Extension -> Dock 
Application Bar
2. You now have the dockbar running in KDE, so you can add an 
application in the usual way, i.e. just run the command (e.g. in a 
terminal or by K -> Run Command)
3. KDE Panel -> Configure Panel -> Layout and you will see the dockbar 
as another item underneath the Panel.  Configure at will (as usual most 
of the defaults are the worst possible option)

-- 
Ben New
ben at leftclick.com.au

Leftclick Software Development
http://www.leftclick.com.au/