Stripchart: Wouldn't work! I think it may be more something I don't have installed than the applet is bad. I will try to check on this later.
NetLoad: Applet that shows your Network Traffic.
Not much to change. You can change the colors on graph for each item, speed and size. Default properties are what I use. I have this on my taskbar.
MemLoad: Applet that shows your Memory Load.
Not much to change. You can change the colors on graph for each item, speed and size. Default properties seem good.
SwapLoad: Applet that shows your Harddrive Swap Load.
Not much to change. You can change the colors on graph for each item, speed and size. Default properties seem good.
Load Average: Applet that shows your System Average Load.
Not much to change. You can change the colors on graph for each item, speed and size. Default properties seem good.
Battery Charge Monitor: Applet that shows your System Battery Charge if your system reports it.
Mine system doesn't report the battery charge so couldn't really test. Think this is mainly for Laptops. You can change colors and warning levels.
CPU/MEM usage: Applet that shows your CPU and Memory usage. No properties to change. Think yellow is usage and green is free, not sure which rows are what. The top one does seem to be the CPU though.
PageLoad: Couldn't get this one to work either.
CPULoad: Applet that shows your CPU Load.
Not much to change. You can change the colors on graph for each item, speed and size. Default properties seem good.
Disk Usage: Applet that shows your Mount Drives space used. If you right click you can change the File System you want to look at, properties and update it. If you click on properties you can change the colors, size, update frequency and fonts.
CD Player: Applet that works with Gnome CD Player. The nice thing is it doesn't actually bring up the CD Player unless you want it too. If you need to change some property on it then right click on the applet and choose 'Run CD Player'. You can change them there.
If you have Gnome CD Player setup to work with your audio CD's then this is a snap. Just use the controls like normal to play your CD. You can see the track and time in the little windows.
Overall: Pretty nice little applet. You can control the CD without opening up a larger application. I think I will use it.
Mixer: Applet that works as nice complement with the CD Player.
You click on the speaker to toggle the Mute function (on/off). Move the bar to control volume.
Overall: Goes nice with any audio function that you just need a couple simple sound controls with.
Sound Monitor: Applet that when you hold your cursor over says for ESound. I don't have Esound so couldn't get to work. Right click and you can place it in Standby.
XMMS Applet: Applet that works with XMMS, but it also places all the controls in the applet when you double click on it.
My XMMS wasn't set up. Had to click on the sine wave in the top left corner when XMMS popped up. Chose 'Play Location' and typed /mnt/cdrom/ and it worked. Then you can minimize XMMS and just use the applet controls. Haven't tried it yet, but XMMS does a lot of things and you should be able to control it with the applet. You will still have to use XMMS to set anything up.
Overall: Takes up less room then the CD Player Applet, looks nice and is fully functional.
Fifteen: Amusement Applet for the game called Fifteen. Showing the applet left and a larger version on the right. The larger version is not from the game.
The pieces are really hard to see, but you can kind of tell from the colors. You can right click and 'Scramble Pieces'. The default order is as shown in the larger picture.
Overall: Neat little game that actually works, if you like destroying your eyes.
Game of Life: Amusement Applet, hold cursor over and says: The Game of Life (to waste your time)). It draw something like an Ink Blot in the applet. You can right click and 'Randomize'.
Overall: Like it says in About: A complete waste of perfectly good CPU cycles.
Odometer: Amusement Applet that counts mouse movements.
You can reset the count in the bottom row and the totals are kept in the top row. Properties has a few different themes to choose from. Most are hard to read, unless your remove the checkmark in the box for 'scale size to panel'. You can also change the number of digits it shows.
Overall: Amusing. Just like it is suppose to be.
Fish: Amusement Applet with a talking fish.
You can click on Wanda the fish and a Window will pop up with Triva,.... like answers. In properties you can choose different animations like a monkey, foot guy,.... What this applet actually executes is the game Fortune. You can change the Fish Name and other things, but the output will always say: Gnome Fish Says. See below after I chose the monkey.
Overall: Pretty neat, good for practicing Fortune I guess or just for the Triva.
gEyes: Amusement Applet with eyes that follow the mouse cursor movement.
You can pick a few differet eye themes.
Overall: Amusing.
Clock and Mailcheck: Same as the first clock in Clocks.
Mailcheck: Network Applet to check your mail. Couldn't get to work. If choose remote POP, which I have, some selections aren't available. Didn't know how to set this one up any further.
Overall: If you can figure it out and set it up, might be useful.
Webcontrol: Network Applet or typing in URL's to got to.
Tested the default settings by typing in 'www.yahoo.com' and hit Return and it worked. It popped right up at Yahoo with my Mozilla Browser.
You can change the URL bar width to make it smaller. Show/Remove a GO and Clear button(s). Clear your history, which works. Change the browser used, haven't tried though since my Browser came right up. To get to properties you have to right click on the words 'URL'.
Overall: Pretty neat if you want to keep a collection of things down there without going to your Browser Bookmarks.
SlashApp: Network Applet that shows information from either Gnotices or Slashdot.
Default is Gnotices. You can change the delay between articles and some other settings. Gnotices: shows Gnome info, new releases of software, other tidbits. Slashdot: Shows titles to articles at Slashdot.com.
Right click on the widow and you can Refresh or click on the Articles showing and review what was shown in a larger window.
Overall: Okay, like Gnotices better for this applet.
Gnome Stock Ticker: Network Applet that shows stock ticker.
You can remove or add to the defaults, change the delay, change the update freq and the way it is displayed.
Overall: This can be handy. I want to watch what a particular stock is doing sometimes.
Modem Lights: Network Applet that connects and shows data moving on modem.
I don't have a dial-up modem so it doesn't work. Tried to set it up for a bit, but no go. I did use this before when I had a dial-up and remember it working. The Big Green Dot on left will connect your modem to network if you have it setup and use PPP. The other two: Top Right Green Dot is Send Data and the Bottom Right Red Dot is Receive Data.
Overall: Handy if you have a dial-up modem. Always nice to see what activity is going on, that is why I have NetLoad up for mine.
Looks like I finally have all the Applets done. If more are added I will try to update this page. This may have been an useless endeavor on my part, but hopefully it will allow you to choose which applets you want to use and which to avoid. If anyone has an idea on how to setup any of these that I was unable to, write me and explain (well) how to.
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