Hardware Monitor 1.3 review

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Hardware Monitor is a multi-purpose, beautiful system-monitoring applet. The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the GNOME p

License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
File size: 302K
Developer: Ole Laursen
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Hardware Monitor is a multi-purpose, beautiful system-monitoring applet.

The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the GNOME panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to system monitoring. It also strives to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your GNOME desktop.

Includes different viewers, including a flame effect, allows multiple devices to be monitored in the samme applet, uses smooth updating, polished graphs, clean HIG-compliant interface.

Here are some key features of "Hardware Monitor":
A graphical view where each monitor is represented by a (time, measurement) colored curve
A bar-plot view with a horizontal bar per monitor
A column view with a column (time, measurement) diagram for each monitor
A textual view which simply lists the monitors and the currently measured values
A flame view which produces spiffy flames, the sizes of which are determined by the values of the monitored device

And the applet supports monitoring the following hardware characteristics:

CPU usage (all CPUs, or one at the time) - nice'd background processes such as SETI@home are automatically ignored
Memory usage - cache and buffers are automatically ignored
Swap usage
Load average
Disk usage (or disk space free)
Network throughput (Ethernet, wireless, modem, serial link), either incoming or outgoing or both
Temperatures from internal sensors (e.g. system board and CPU temperatures)
Fan speeds from internal sensors

Requirements:
gtkmm

What's New in This Release:
The applet now takes advantage of the new features in gtkmm 2.6 to drop the dependency on libgnomemm and libgnomeuimm.
A few bugs have been fixed.
Lots of translation updates were done.

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