What is Gpulse
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Gpulse is a CPU load monitor with leds ala BeOS Pulse. The default time
for update is 0.2 sec.


Getting Started
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Since Gpulse is written with Gtk libs it requires Gtk-1.0.0 at least.
Also it requires the libgtop > 0.26.0 and the libintl.
All the packages you must get is :


gtk+-1.0.0.tar.gz and above.             (from www.gtk.org)
glib-1.0.0.tar.gz and above.             (from www.gtk.org)
libgtop-0.26.0.tar.gz and above.         (from www.gnome.org you can find it)
libintl which included                   
       in the gtop-0.28.tar.gz           (from www.gnome.org you can find it) 
       or in the libgtop-0.26.0.tar.gz   (from www.gnome.org you can find it)
       or in the gnomelibs-0.30.1.tar.gz (from www.gnome.org you can find it)


Thanks to    Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org>
             Josh Sled     <jsled@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> 

my job to port the Gpulse thing to other platforms it was just 
typing one line! This version must work in all the unix which 
the libgtop is beind provided: 

FreeBSD, SunOS, Solaris, Dec OSF 1 ... 

The CPU pixmap is the menu button!
In the Update Time dialog you must put the time interval in msec.


Install
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   1. For Linux 
   ------------

   Just type "make" to compile and "make install" to install ...
   The default directory for the binary is "/usr/local/bin", 
   the pixmap and the configuration files is in "$HOME/.gpulse".
   The power.xpm is the cpu pixmap on the button.The back.xpm  
   is the background pixmap.You can change them to what ever 
   you like. The gpulserc file is the configuration file.


   2. For Other Platforms 
   ----------------------

   You follow the steps as in the Linux case...If there is 
   problems, you must edit the Makefile for two things:
   A.) Where are the include files for libgtop. 
   B.) Where are the libs from the libgtop package.
   I haven't test the Gpulse thing under other platforms 
   than Linux and if you manage install it please let me now.


Questions?  Comments!
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If you have any feedback you wish to give me, be it questions,
comments, suggestions, whatever, please email them to:

me00013@cc.uoi.gr
mike@boltzmann.physics.uoi.gr



Thanks
------

Also I'd like to thank all of you who send me comments and 
Alan Cox for his sugestions in the code.
