GKrellM giFT Plugin

Author: Tilman Sauerbeck, <tilman@code-monkey.de> Web: http://code-monkey.de/index.php?gkrellm-gift

Copyright (C) 2003 Tilman Sauerbeck.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. See COPYING.

Description

GKrellM giFT monitors your active giFT transfers and their progress. Each transfer is displayed in a panel showing the filename and the percentage of transmitted bytes. In addition, there's a chart showing the current download and upload speed.

Installation

To install, just run the usual ./configure && make followed by make install.

To compile it, you will need GTK+ 2.0/2.2, libgiFT (ships with giFT) and GKrellM 2.1.23 or greater.

Configuration

Using the plugin's config dialog, you can set a number of options:

System to connect to: host and port. Should be self-explanatory. These describe the system on which the giFT daemon runs you want to connect to. When you first run the plugin, it will try to read ~/.giFT/ui/ui.conf to figure out these settings. If that file isn't readable, the default host and port will be used, which is localhost:1213.
Transfer colors: These are the colors used to draw the text in the panels.
Max. downloads/uploads to display: if there are more downloads/uploads than the value you set here, these transfers won't be shown until some other transfer finishes.
Format string for chart label: Defines which information is displayed in the chart.
Available variables/control characters include:
- GKrellM's standard variables
- $Sd: downloads speed
- $Su: uploads speed
- $Td: number of current downloads
- $Tu: number of current uploads
- $Tt: number of downloads and uploads
- $Us: Number of users
Both the transfer panels and the chart can be turned off.

Future Releases:

Future releases will probably feature the following:

ability to pause/resume and cancel transfers
...

Themes

Themes can supply files called "icon_up.png" and "icon_down.png" (or with the other valid extensions) in the "giFT" subdirectry to change to images put in front of the transfer tabs.

Contact

Send bug reports, patches, feature suggestions etc to tilman@code-monkey.de