statemenu
StateMenu is a desktop popup menu that can be used to monitor and control system resources. It also functions as a regular application menu. It should work with any window manager that either sets the _WIN_DESKTOP_BUTTON_PROXY property (like Xfwm4) or allows direct access to root window button events (like Metacity). Under Nautilus/GNOME and Xfce4 it provides an additional desktop menu. Under the Rox Pinboard you can use it to define a different menu for each mouse button.
StateMenu allows quick access to check and/or change the status of daemons, the cpu frequency, your firewall, etc. without taking up any screen real estate. StateMenu is GTK2-based and fully supports icons. It is written in Python (and a little bit of C to interface with Xlib), and it's configuration is defined with an xml file.
- Requirements
- X (Xlib, really) Python (>=2.4) PyGTK (>= 2.0)
- Installation
- ./configure && make && make install
You also might want to copy statemenu-sample.xml to either /etc/statemenu.xml or ~/.statemenu.xml
- Configuration
- See the html documentation in the doc directory included with this source distribution.
Running it:
just run the command 'statemenu'
You'll probably want to have it automatically started by your desktop
environment (no session management support yet). If you have problems look
for a statemenu.log file or look at the Troubleshooting section in the
included html docs.
Pleas send bugs/comments/suggestions to
Christopher Carroll <ccarroll@users.sourceforge.net>