Diskusage Applet

Copyright © 2000 by John Fleck

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Disk Usage Applet

Disk Usage Applet

Disk Usage Applet, shown in Figure 1, provides a panel monitor for the amount of space in use and available on your disk drives. To add this applet to the panel, right-click on the panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Monitors->Disk Usage

Figure 1. Disk Usage Applet

Usage

Disk Usage Applet provides real-time monitoring of the available space on your disk drives.

It provides three pieces of information. The colored pie graphically represents how much space is used and how much is available. MP: indicates the mount point of the disk it is currently monitoring. av: indicates the amount of space available on the selected drive, in kilobytes. Clicking on the applet changes the drive being monitored. Doing so repeatedly cycles through all available drives.

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

  • File system — allows you to change the file system Disk Usage Applet monitors.

  • Properties— opens the Properties dialog

  • Update — this can be used to force the applet to update the filesystem list the applet uses.

  • Help — displays this document.

  • About… — shows basic information about Disk Usage Applet, including the applet's version and the author's name.

Customization

You can customize Disk Usage Applet by right-clicking on it and choosing Properties. This will launch the Properties… dialog, which allows you to change various settings.

Figure 2. Preferences dialog

The properties are:

  • Colors — To change the colors displayed in the applet, click on the colored buttons next to Used Diskspace, Free Diskspace, Textcolor and Backgroundcolor. A color wheel dialog will pop up offering you color options to make changes. When finished, click on the OK button on the color options window.

  • Size — Applet Size and can be used to change the height (on a horizontal panel) or width (on a vertical panel) of the applet.

    By checking the Automatically pick best applet size check box, you can force Disk Usage Applet to automatically choose the appropriate size for your panel.

  • Fonts — Clicking on the bar in this window opens a dialog box allowing you to change the font displayed in the applet.

  • Update Frequency — changes the amount of time, in seconds, between updates of Disk Usage Applet.

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

Authors

Disk Usage Applet was written by Dave Finton , Bruno Widmann and Martin Baulig . 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 John Fleck (). 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.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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