xfce4-cpugraph-plugin

[Rene Ladan]

army.of.root schreef:
> Rene Ladan wrote:
>> 2009/4/5 Rene Ladan <rene at freebsd.org>:
>>> Torfinn Ingolfsen schreef:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Jack L. <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> It doesn't work on my setup with 7.1-STABLE and xfce4.6 on amd64 as
>>>>> well. I have 3 computers with the same exact issue.
>>>> It doesn't work with latest RELENG_7 (ie. 7.2-prerelease / amd64) 
>>>> either.
>>> It fails on 7.2-BETA1/amd64 as well, at the same point as before:
>>> cpu.c line 959:
>>>
>>> base->m_History[i] = 0;
>>>
>>> with i == 39, but base->m_History points to an inaccessible long int.
>>>
>>> I've mailed the authors (the first one listed has an invalid email 
>>> address),
>>> to see how they think about it.
>>>
>> I got an answer from 2 of the authors.  They both say 
>> xfce4-cpugraph-plugin is
>> abandonware.  There are some alternatives:
>>
>> * http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/desklets.html (requires the
>> adesklets framework)
>> * 
>> http://gatopeichs.pbwiki.com/#gatotraymonitorCPUgraphicallyfromyoursystemstray 
>>
>> (freedesktop/gtk+)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rene
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is sad, i like the current Plugin; its not perfect but certainly 
> better then the one on the second link (on a superficial look, it cant 
> be resized to be like 100px wide). It would be really nice if we keep it 
> around for some time.
> 
I've created a preliminary patch to update it to 0.4.0 at [1],
however the plugin suffers from random crashes on my 7.2R/amd64 box.

You might also want to look at the list starting at
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=876


[1] ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/freebsd/xfce4-cpugraph-plugin.diff
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Regards,
Rene
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