Desktop Information

SadLittlePony · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2012 Posts: 10

Hello Everypony!
I have been looking at a few screenshots and I notice quite a few of you have information on your desktops. I picked a few of my favorites.
http://sc.gentooligans.com/image/seiduna/2011/11/24/seidunas-ratpoison-desktop
http://sc.gentooligans.com/image/havoc/2011/08/24/havocs-xmonad-desktop
http://sc.gentooligans.com/image/ifenslave/2011/07/25/ifenslaves-kde-desktop

I want to have that information on my desktop too. Here is a screenshot of mine on windows 7 http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/575171_127158597417575_100003703069562_124602_97537605_n.jpg and as you can see it is kind of sparse. I was wondering what kind of info you guys keep on your desktops like the three that I linked and why is it helpful to you. I would very much like to see mine look that way once I finally get Gentoo installed.

gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 444 Location: Kraków, PL

On the screenshots above there is nothing extraordinary - htop on the first one (using ratpoison WM), xmonad with xmobar on the second. Third one uses some fancy KDE widgets.

If you really think that knowing the RPM of your CPU fan or constantly monitoring the number of free inodes on /usr will improve your productivity search for conky - it can do all the fancy stuff. But personally I think there is very little or even no use of such gadgets, they only distract me from serious work.
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