How to install gKrellm?

[cyberneticdna]

Hello all

I was reading about conky and was wondering is there a way to install gKrellm on XFCE? I would greatly appreciate any help on this. Thanks!!

[billb]

I have an RPM for that here:
http://pleasantfiction.ipower.com/ps3li ... group.html

Instructions for setting up the repo are here:
http://pleasantfiction.ipower.com/bodeg ... ?f=11&t=21

And then you can install with:

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yum install gkrellm

[cyberneticdna]

Awesome!!!!!!!!! You da man Billb

How about the themes would you use yum as well? (Sorry Noob Questions, lol )

[billb]

I haven't played with the themes, but it looks you'd just download them and extract to ~/.gkrellm/themes ...

This site has a lot of them in one file you can download:
http://www.muhri.net/gkrellm/

Haven't tried them yet, though ...

[cyberneticdna]

Great respond time!! I appreciate it ^-^

[NuxIT]

Does gkrellm work in 6.2? I'd like to give it a try since I used to really like superkaramba for KDE back in the day. I suppose I could boot to KDE and try superkaramba but I'd like to try gkrellm in englightenment since that's the GUI I like. Also, I log into my YDL box with root and a user acct. Would I need to install these under each acct. Thx for any/all info.

[billb]

Does gkrellm work in 6.2?

I haven't tried it, but it should work OK -- it's in yellowdog-extras on YDL 6.2. And you'd only need to install it once.

[aguilarojo]

Does gkrellm work in 6.2? I'd like to give it a try since I used to really like superkaramba for KDE back in the day. I suppose I could boot to KDE and try superkaramba but I'd like to try gkrellm in englightenment since that's the GUI I like. Also, I log into my YDL box with root and a user acct. Would I need to install these under each acct. Thx for any/all info.

I'm running gkrellm in YDL 6.2. It (gkrellm and other applications you've installed) are available from within any of the desktops available for YDL. So whether you use KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Enlightenment or other desktop you may compile/install -- the applications will appear within the menu structure of that desktop environment. Setting gkrellm to operate within every virtual window of a desktop environment can be challenging to learn (if the number x >= 2 virtual desktops are in use) as each different desktop environment behaves differently from the others. This often ignored fact may explain why gkrellm may appear in one desktop but not all; because KDE, XFCE, Gnome, nor any other environments invoke or utilize virtual desktops exactly the same way. This means you'll have to pay attention to how you settings you use within gkrellm.

[NuxIT]

Thanks billb & aguilarojo. I managed to install the gkrellm while connected over the internet on SSH session this morning. I'm logged in as root in enlightenment and used the GUI software package manager for installation. It went smooth and I just loaded some themes. It's definitely a cool tool!