The system monitoring widget that ships with KDE 4.x eats too much CPU. Conky is too setup-intensive and I can't find a way to make it only show up in one activity. I need a system monitor that sits on the desktop, but only on one virtual desktop within one activity! Can someone recommend a widget that's do the job?

I use gKrellm, not kde but minimal cpu utilization, cutomizable and there are some available plugins

this is my setup http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpeg-0-gkrellm

google01103 wrote:I use gKrellm, not kde but minimal cpu utilization, cutomizable and there are some available plugins

this is my setup http://simplest-image-hosting.net/jpeg-0-gkrellm

I just installed gkrellm, and it looks pretty good. But is there any way I can pin it to the desktop like a widget?

don't think so as its a program not a widget, you could look at superkaramba style widgets they should pin.

You can set the gKrellm widow to "keep above others". In "special application settings" maybe you can set to no be minimized (never tried but would be interested if it could)

Check this one out:

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php

2handband wrote:Check this one out:

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php

bad link

Here ya go.

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Yasp-Scripted+(Systemmonitor)+v1.0.7?content=109367



It's arguably the best system monitoring widget I've seen if you can handle some light scripting. Here's a screenshot of mine:

http://genek.net/LinuxAdventures/yasp.png

hows the cpu utilization?

Very light indeed.