'gatotray', monitor CPU graphically from your system's tray

Notice to gatotray users!!!

The official gatotray home page is now at http://code.google.com/p/gatotray 

There you will be able to browse the code, download the latest version and request improvements.

'gatotray' is a colorful tray icon to watch over CPU status including usage, frequency and temperature.

• Pseudo-logaritmic time scale: right-most columns reflect last seconds while lefter columns accumulate older measures, providing an idea of cpu usage evolution for up to 30 minutes in a glimpse. It makes a beautiful smoothing effect too.
• Colors of the usage bars vary with frequency, from green to red.
• Tooltip shows current usage percentage, frequency and temperature numerically.
• Instant temperature is shown graphically, in the form of a nice thermometer :-). Thermometer blinks on high temperature (>=85 C).
• Pops-up a 'top' window with detailed system usage (on click).
• Preferences dialog allows customization of colors and options.
• Transparent background (optional).

Screenshot:

Requeriments:

• Linux.
• GTK+ v2.10 or later.
• Any freedesktop.org compliant system tray like that of XFCE, KDE, GNOME, etc.

Download:

• sources: gatotray-2.0.tar.bz2
• i386 binary (27K, works almost anywere): gatotray.bin32

Build & install instructions:

$ make

$ sudo make install

     (This will install in /usr/local/bin).

Python prototyping: During an early design stage, gatotray was coded in Python. This allowed me to code & debug interactively, specially useful while coding GTK+ events. Then converting from Python to C was pretty straightforward and the resulting application is very lightweight in resources and dependencies.