On the right you can see the
screenshot
I dont remember where I got the backdrop but I can tell you I use xfce4 as my DTE/WM. Those things
down the sides are all gkrellm2 stacks (4 in total)
I run a screensize of 1600x1200 which makes a single instance of gkrellm too limiting for my needs/wants
so creating 4 stacks removes this limitation
Many people have asked me how to get gkrellm2 to do what I do with it in that screenshot, I will give
you a quick run down on how and you will see how easy it actually is to do
I use a little script to initialise all the gkrellm2 windows before my DTE/WM of choice, XFCE4, kicks
in, you can view that script here, all it does is kick in each
instance of gkrellm2. Now before you go and copy the script (which you can do freely) you should run
each instance of gkrellm2 from your commandline and configure each one in turn to only show the
information you want it to show.
To do this you start gkrellm2 thus:
gkrellm -c stack1 &
gkrellm -c stack2 &
etc etc for each instance you want to run
Once you have these little standard gkrellm2 windows open you can move each one to a specific spot on
your desktop, set each one up to show only the information you want it to show and finally close each
one (to ensure it saves its configuration, which is should do automatically but we make sure, then
reload via the script above or whatever method you chose. I put the script in my ~/.xinitrc before
XFCE4 is loaded.
screenshot