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OLD-SCHOOL MONITORING

is fairly old, but there are two grandparents of graphical monitoring that we’d get in trouble for not mentioning. One is , a GTK2 utility that displays, which decorates your deskop wallpaper with system information (okay, it actually is drawing in a transparent, undecorated window, but the result is the same).

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