Tick-a-Stat Applet


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Tick-a-Stat Applet

Tick-a-Stat Applet

Tick-a-Stat applet, shown in Figure 1, watches various aspects of your system and delivers information when certain events occur. For example, it can watch the CPU load and warn you when the CPU is being overloaded with concurrent processes. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Utility->Tick-a-Stat.

Usage

After you have configured Tick-a-Stat, it will run continuously and does not require any input. General configuration of Tick-a-Stat is explained in the Section called Customization. There are several modules which can be used. Their function and configuration is described in the Section called Modules.

Right-clicking on the applet brings up a menu containing the following items:

  • Properties… — opens the Properties dialog.

  • Event Log… — opens the Event Log dialog.

  • Help — displays this document.

  • About… — shows basic information about Tick-a-Stat Applet, including the applet's version and the author's name.

Customization

You can customize Tick-a-Stat applet by right-clicking on it and choosing Properties…. This will open the Properties dialog(shown in Figure 2), which allows you to change various settings.

The Modules tab lists the various modules you can enable. Select a module from Module list on the left to configure it in the pane on the right. Each module and its configurable properties are described in the Section called Modules.

The properties in the General tab are:

  • Enable logging of events — If this button is checked, a log of each event detected by an enabled module will be written to the file named in the Log path entry.

  • Log Path — This is name of the file which will be used to store the event log.

The properties in the Display tab are:

  • Smooth scroll — Selecting this button causes old events to slowly scroll upwards when new events occur, instead of quickly moving up to make room.

  • Smooth type — Selecting this button causes new text to be slowly typed across the applet as if somebody is typing it, instead of appearing very quickly.

  • Delay when wrapping text — This is the time delay (in tenths of a second) that it pauses when it wraps a message around the right edge of the applet (ie. for a carriage return).

  • Scroll speed between lines (Smooth scroll) — This is the speed at which lines are scrolled upwards.

  • Width — This is the width(in pixels) of the applet.

  • Use all room on panel — Selecting this button expands the applet along the Panel to fill all space (up to any neighboring Panel objects if they exist.)

  • Height — This is the height(in pixels) of the applet.

  • Use panel size hint — Selecting this button causes the applet to try to size itself to fit the Panel height.

After you have made all the changes you want, click on OK to apply the changes and close the Properties dialog. To cancel the changes and return to previous values, click the Cancel button.

Modules

Tick-a-Stat has several modules. Each module watches a certain part of your system and responds to different evens. Multiple modules can be run enabled at once. The standard Tick-a-Stat modules are described below.

Authors

Tick-a-Stat Applet was written by John Ellis (). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports.

This manual was written by Dan Mueth (). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to . You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table.