Re: diskusage applet for panel updated

[Bruno Widmann <bwidmann tks fh-sbg ac at>]

On Thu, 21 May 1998, George wrote:
> 
> use popen function
> 
> George
> 

Ok, thanks i switched to popen for now. It works great. Had i only know'n
about that before :) 
now that i check with gtop, it uses way less memory and cpu. 

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Miguel wrote:
>I would suggest using the tooltip to display what the file system is,
>because it is a bit difficult to know what each thing is

That sounds kewl. Do you think of it like having change info in tooltip
for every bar, and showing filsystem name? I'll try to do that now ;)

>I suggest you either take code from the GNU fileutils or from the
>Midnight Commander (I stole the code from GNU file utils) so that you
>get direct access to the df information, without the intermediate
>step.

i downloaded the GNU fileutils src, and looked at df source ... yes
it would be faster probaply to directly use stuff out of it.
But i just didn't get what they are doing in detail, and how to rip out
stuff i need :I ... well, at the moment forking into df will have to do



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