kennbr34 / wmfire

A WindowMaker dock app that shows a flame corresponding to various performance statistics

Wmfire

Wmfire is a flaming dock app which can monitor your cpu, memory, or network load. It features;

• Monitor cpu load
• Monitor memory load
• Monitor net load
• Monitor file value

• Left click to change the status monitor (unless locked)
• Middle click to hide/show nice'd process on cpu load
• Right click to change flame colour (unless locked)
• Mouse wheel up or down is the same as left click

On mouse over the cursor will disappear and be replaced by a burning spot at that location. After two seconds symbols will be burnt to represent what is being monitored. For cpu, a short solid bar for average load, or a line of dots representing the current cpu number on SMP systems. For the memory, a 4x4 grid of dots is used to signify a memory array. For the network, a line of marching dots is like data passing through a cable. For file values, a spinning disk platter is shown.

(Note that not all window managers support all mouse over effects.)

Dependencies

pkg-config >= 0.9.0

autoconf

automake

GTK >= 3.0

GTop >= 2.0

Compile and Install

$ autoreconf

$ ./configure

$ make

# make install

Notes

This version of wmfire incorporates Debian package managers' patches, as well as changes to use GTK3 libraries instead of GTK2.

GTK3 uses Cairo to draw the color maps to the screen, which requires to the RGB values to be in Least Significant Bit order. Originally the color maps were in Most Significant Bit order, so they have been converted to Least Significant Bit and the old ones used to add new colors of flame.

I have not been able to contact the original author, but if you have any questions or comments about bugs, etc. you can contact me at [email protected]

Original Notes

The original GDK routine came from the ubercool wmfishtime dock application written by timecop over at http://www.ne.jp/asahi/linux/timecop/ which has swimming fish, an anti-aliased analog clock, and alpha blended bubbles. Using this is much faster than the historic wmgeneral source.

If you discover any bugs then please report them to me at [email protected] where I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Copying

Wmfire is licensed through the GNU General Public License. Read the COPYING file for the complete GNU license.