gdesklets how does it run on your system?

[krazibon3]

Hey fellas i'm just after some feedbackfrom those whom have gdesklets running on their ystem? what are your specs and is it smooth as i heard it eats up a lot of resources and may slow the computer down a bit? i'm planning on installing gdesklets to spice up my desktop a little bit.

My specs are
P4 2.6Ghz
512 RAM (adding another 512RAM soon)
Radeon 9600xt
Abit IS7-E motherboard
80gb sata HD
120gb sata HD
Running KDE at the moment

Any feedback or thoughts are welcome.

[imdeemvp]

i used gdesklets for a while and even though i have 1gb of ram it i felt it was just eating to much ram so i switch to a lightweight here and if you are using fc2 you will need this packages from dag

[jcstille]

Well I have had no problems installed on one of my machines. I use that machine once a week and seems fine. A little performance loss, but not truly noticable on the hardware configuration (similar to yours, except 1gb ram)

[reks]

Well, if you are running kde, use karamba/super-karamba. Thats equivalent to gdesklets. In any case, both karamba and gdesklets does take up a lot of your cpu/memory

I've tried them both a few times and gave up since "x" usage of memory goes up by few percentage and cpu is never more than 75-85 % idle. Oh wait.. I'm on an ancient 1GHz PIII/256MB.

Just my $0.02..

[imdeemvp]

superkarambar its very cool too.....i tried it.

[krazibon3]

Yeh i was previously using gkrellm on my old HD which made my system abit slow so i decided to chuck linux on a another SATA HD and upgraded to the lastest kernel 2.6.8-1 which for some reason it felt abit faster then the previous kernel 4.6.7 .

Doesn't gkrellm allready come with fc2 when you do a fresh install? what desktop manager are you using imdeemvp? I'm using torsmo atm which is la very light monitoring program.

[imdeemvp]

i use gnome and gkrellm no it does not come included in fc2...........

[krazibon3]

ahhh i see

i might be abit different, because i did a install with everything from the cd's and if you looked in system tools you will find it. On the other hand i guess gdesklets is a no go from the linux community

[imdeemvp]

dont get us wrong.....gDesklets is way better in look it just eats up the ram specially if you dont have the adecuate ram...same as xp....the candy looks kill the ram.

[krazibon3]

nah its cool i think superkaramba looks pretty nifty as it is also designed for KDE. Gonna give gkellm a second try, thank god for yum without it i would still be stuck god knows where in trying to configure me linux.

[imdeemvp]

you are right.........