Monthly Archives: June 2011

KDE Plasma Hacking – The CPU And System Viewer

For my primary desktop is KDE which is running the Plasma Desktop plasmoids are a powerful option to add helper widgets to this desktop. Looking for a small, space efficient and simple tool to show cpu usage, memory usage etc. there was none I liked on kde-apps.

Enter CPU and System Viewer

The CPU and System Viewer plasmoid provides a simple and rather minimalistic view onto the current CPU usage of your system and can be added to the panel. If wanted, CPU, memory and swap usage are shown in a graph, too. Also, a popup gives more advanced information about the current state of the system.

No Chart, just the plasmoid

Chart and CPU usage

This plasmoid is written in python and is derived from the Simple CPU Meter plasmoid. Also, ideas from the System Load Viewer plasmoid shipped with KDE SC were used.

Popup Information

And hence my first foray into KDE Plasma hacking commences.

Twitter hates RSS… but I like feeds

No, I don’t like social media stuff as it delivers to much noise and wastes to much time with to little outcome. Yet, there are some – rare – occasions where a twitter feed of a certain person or group might offer valuable pieces of information that I can not access otherwise.

For this purpose – normally – I use RSS, so that any news automatically pops up in my mail programm and feed reader. This way, there is no need for an extra communication channel and yet another portal, yap, to check regularly.

Unfortunately, twitter hates RSS so that the former option to subscribe to a feed is no longer shown. Yet, there are workaround, see here

Thus, twitter hates me. Yet, I do have my feed.