Add memory usage indication on Desktop bar (icewm)

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  • December 13, 2017 at 5:05 am #3704
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      Changing the line in ~/.icewm/preferences to :
      TaskBarShowMEMStatus=1

      (instead of zero) SHOULD activate a memory indicator on the taskbar, shouldn’t it ? But it doesn’t work :=(
      Would be useful since I won’t use Conky ont this memory starved system…
      What step am I missing ?

      P.S. : From the same file I also changed “TaskBarShowCollapseButton=1” which does work and
      is a must IMHO : should come by default in antix (suggest!)

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      CPU : Pentium III “Coppermine”, 800 MHz
      RAM : 384 M :=(

      December 13, 2017 at 6:37 am #3705
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        Just tested. Changed to TaskBarShowMEMStatus=1 and Restarted IceWM and I have the memory monitor in the taskbar. Did you reload iceWM after modifications?

        TaskBarShowCollapseButton=1 is ok but my preference goes to TaskBarAutoHide option

        December 13, 2017 at 7:12 am #3707
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          If I remember right Ninho uses antix16, here on antix17 settingmemstatus=1 is working,too.
          Maybe theres a difference between 16 and 17.

          December 13, 2017 at 7:36 am #3708
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            Yes, using AntiX-16. Restarting and even rebooting system didn’t help, still
            no memory indicator. It is supposed to appear on the bar near the clock, right ?

            December 13, 2017 at 9:01 am #3710
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              OK. I did try and indeed does not work on antiX 16 but i don’t have any idea

              December 13, 2017 at 11:14 am #3714
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                ShowMEMStatus definitely does nothing, I’ve it removed …
                but the good news! “TaskBarShowCPUStatus=1″ DOES work on my system,
                and then hovering the mouse over the CPU indicator shows RAM usage figures among others !

                Time to set up swap file, I guess ;=)

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                December 13, 2017 at 12:53 pm #3717
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                  Some reading:
                  http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.ubuntuusers.de%2FSwap%2F

                  December 13, 2017 at 1:45 pm #3719
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                    @Caprea: thanks ! But I’m already set-up with a fresh, 800 megabyte swapfile.
                    I have been closely following that other good paper (from the horse’s mouth):

                    https://www.linux.com/news/all-about-linux-swap-space

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                    Ninho

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