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This plugin is a port of the venerable GNOME 2 Hardware Monitor to XFCE4 (originally written by Ole Laursen), so that I could get at a network bandwidth graph. It can display various system stats (CPU, filesystem and network usage among others) in graphs, visualisations or with text. | This plugin is a port of the venerable GNOME 2 Hardware Monitor to XFCE4 (originally written by Ole Laursen), so that I could get at a network bandwidth graph. It can display various system stats (CPU, filesystem and network usage among others) in graphs, visualisations or with text. | ||
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- | This is a major new feature for v1.4.7 - actual interface names are no longer hardcoded based on their ' | + | For a general discussion, please see the CPU Usage monitor above. For this monitor, without a fixed max, in time-based visualisations (Curves, Columns etc) the displayed data max is used as the max, in other visualisations (e.g. Bars) the max value the monitor has observed since it has started is stored and slowly decays over time (10% reduction over 105 measurements according to an old comment). |
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+ | The Interface Type/Name configuration | ||
As an extreme example, with this functionality you could configure 8 wireless interfaces if you wanted, albeit with the wrong interface type names displayed (to get at more, use more than one instance of the Hardware Monitor plugin - configuration is separate). | As an extreme example, with this functionality you could configure 8 wireless interfaces if you wanted, albeit with the wrong interface type names displayed (to get at more, use more than one instance of the Hardware Monitor plugin - configuration is separate). | ||
To edit an interface name, single-click the name and enter - note that this change applies immediately to all network monitors associated with the current plugin instance. Use the ' | To edit an interface name, single-click the name and enter - note that this change applies immediately to all network monitors associated with the current plugin instance. Use the ' | ||
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==== Temperature Tab ==== | ==== Temperature Tab ==== | ||
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- | The Generic Monitor is an advanced monitor to allow power users to effectively visualise/ | + | The Generic Monitor is an advanced monitor to allow power users to effectively visualise/ |
Keep in mind that: | Keep in mind that: | ||
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* The visualisation/ | * The visualisation/ | ||
* Positive axes available only | * Positive axes available only | ||
- | * The y axis is a complete scale - so plotting very large numbers that change little will be a bit pointless as the line will be stuck at the top of the graphing area and will apparently not change | + | * The y axis is a complete scale (aside from the 'fixed max at' setting near the bottom) |
If enough people are interested, I can extend how the values are processed (e.g. values passed through a basic calculation like '* 10', '/ 1000' etc) to make it a bit more flexible, please make a [[https:// | If enough people are interested, I can extend how the values are processed (e.g. values passed through a basic calculation like '* 10', '/ 1000' etc) to make it a bit more flexible, please make a [[https:// | ||
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'Data source name (long)' | 'Data source name (long)' | ||
- | Units are optional and are appended to the reported value in the usual places, and the Tag works as described for earlier monitors. | + | Units are optional and are appended to the reported value in the usual places. |
+ | For a general discussion of the remaining advanced settings, please see the CPU Usage monitor above. For this monitor, without a fixed max, in time-based visualisations (Curves, Columns etc) the displayed data max is used as the max, in other visualisations (e.g. Bars) the max value the monitor has observed since it has started is stored and slowly decays over time (10% reduction over 105 measurements according to an old comment). | ||
===== Changing A Monitor ===== | ===== Changing A Monitor ===== | ||
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==== Curve View ==== | ==== Curve View ==== | ||
- | The following shows an example of the most featureful visualisation (as of v1.4.7), | + | The following shows an example of the Curve view (selected under Viewer): |
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The example displays two curves, incoming and outgoing data on my main ethernet interface, along with a text overlay reporting the graph maximum and the actual values from the monitors. | The example displays two curves, incoming and outgoing data on my main ethernet interface, along with a text overlay reporting the graph maximum and the actual values from the monitors. | ||
- | The curve visualisation/ | + | The curve visualisation/ |
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+ | **One monitor with fixed max:** | ||
+ | Scale is fixed with the top of the view representing the monitor' | ||
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+ | **One monitor with non-fixed max:** | ||
+ | Scale changes | ||
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+ | By default ' | ||
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+ | If you would rather all monitors share the same scale (even if the units are incompatible), | ||
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+ | **Note user-customisable monitor update rates** in the Advanced sections of individual monitor configuration - by default different monitor types update once a second, 10 seconds, 20, 1 minute etc - but can be configured to update at any rate (fastest is 1 second), which **can be used to keep monitors of different types in sync**, or include ' | ||
The size control allows you to shorten or lengthen the width of the visualisation. | The size control allows you to shorten or lengthen the width of the visualisation. | ||
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%a: Graph max (compact - no spaces, shorter units)'' | %a: Graph max (compact - no spaces, shorter units)'' | ||
- | The idea is to include | + | If the visualisation contains |
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+ | In individual monitor Advanced configuration, | ||
It isn't obvious, but the configured monitor value separator is a single space - in the full mode, this string is used to separate values from tags, and between separate monitor outputs, and in the compact mode tags are right up against values so it just affects the output between monitors. | It isn't obvious, but the configured monitor value separator is a single space - in the full mode, this string is used to separate values from tags, and between separate monitor outputs, and in the compact mode tags are right up against values so it just affects the output between monitors. | ||
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- | I use the ' | + | The example uses the ' |
==== Horizontal Bars View ==== | ==== Horizontal Bars View ==== | ||
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- | The only thing configurable here is the visualisation size (width) - works the same as before. | + | Configuration |
==== Flames View ==== | ==== Flames View ==== | ||
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+ | Configuration works in the same way as the Curve View. | ||
==== Columns View ==== | ==== Columns View ==== | ||
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+ | Configuration works in the same way as the Curve View. | ||
==== Vertical Bars View ==== | ==== Vertical Bars View ==== | ||
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+ | Configuration works in the same way as the Curve View. | ||
==== Text View ==== | ==== Text View ==== | ||