Brian's Blog

I think I finally found a system monitor that I actually like. I saw a mention on digg about Torsmo. It's lightweight and, based on the screen shots on the Torsmo website, reasonably configurable. It has only xlib as a dependency and renders just text and, optionally, percentage bars. Nothing to write home about I guess, but it's nice if you're into this sort of geeky thing.

The only thing I noticed is that in KDE it tends to disappear from the background. I glanced over the README and saw a work around but didn't read it since Torsmo works flawlessly, as far as I can tell, in windowmaker.

The thumb to the left links to a full screen shot of how it looks on my desktop. And below is a close up of just the Torsmo display. It's pretty much default, but fairly complete it seems. It can even watch your mail spool if you want.