Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

GTK Krell Monitors

gkrellm.srcbox.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 40 posts

Re: GTK Krell Monitors

#2

Post by cadamsdotcom »

What a blast from the past! Stoked it’s still under development!

Had a look for the etymology of “Krell” - in the readme it mentions “GKrellM - keeping an eye on your computer’s Id”.

Seems to be a reference to this 1956 movie, Forbidden Planet / Monsters from the Id: http://guidetomonsters.com/html/50s/Id%20Monster.html

Can I get a fact check?

Re: GTK Krell Monitors

#3

Post by jchoksi »

The original author of gkrellm, Bill Wilson, also made PiKrellCam. https://billw2.github.io/pikrellcam/pikrellcam.html>

Which was/is the best Raspberry Pi Audio/Video Recording, OSD Motion Detect Program. It was made to run perfectly on a RPI Zero with its limited CPU and memory.

I was very sad to learn that Bill passed away in Oct 2021. https://github.com/billw2/pikrellcam/issues/78#issuecomment-...>

I'm glad gkrellm got a new maintainer and continues to exist.

Re: GTK Krell Monitors

#4

Post by jmclnx »

These days it is one of the most underrated tool! I never has a problem with it under any DE or WM.

FWIW, it is still bundled with Slackware.

Re: GTK Krell Monitors

#5

Post by sigmonsays »

I ran this thing with slackware and window manager back in the day. My goodness, I have forgotten about this entirely.

I might have to spin it up for fun.

For all the nix fols, "nix run nixpkgs#gkrellm" works =P

Re: GTK Krell Monitors

#6

Post by silisili »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #2

What a blast from the past! Stoked it’s still under development! Had a look for the etymology of “Krell” - in the readme it mentions “GKrellM - keeping an eye on your computer’s Id”. Seems to be a reference to this 1956 movie, Forbidden Planet / Monsters from the Id: http://guidetomonsters.com/html/50s/Id%20Monster.html Can I get a fact check?

The Wiki says you're spot on. Impressive sleuthing.

https://archive.ph/20120710180815/http://members.dslextreme....

Re: GTK Krell Monitors

#7

Post by ninkendo »

Wow, it’s funny because the last time I ran gkrellm was 23 years ago when I first started using Linux and I thought I was a l33t h4x0r…

And just today, now that I actually write code for a living and use Linux on my work machine, I found myself really wanting a good display to tell me when my memory usage was growing.[0] I was using the gnome activity monitor but it takes up way too much screen space and was always behind the window I was using. It looks like this could actually be useful for me to run now!

[0] I was running a local kubernetes cluster with an opentracing implementation, where I hadn’t quite worked out the configs for memory usage yet, and it kept spiking and OOMing when I wasn’t looking. It’s fun when your mouse cursor just stops moving and you’re wondering whether you need to hold down the power button or what…

Re: GTK Krell Monitors

#9

Post by istjohn »

ninkendo wrote: post #7

Wow, it’s funny because the last time I ran gkrellm was 23 years ago when I first started using Linux and I thought I was a l33t h4x0r… And just today, now that I actually write code for a living and use Linux on my work machine, I found myself really wanting a good display to tell me when my memory usage was growing.[0] I was using the gnome activity monitor but it takes up way too much screen space and was always b…

You might also consider Conky: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
Post reply on HN