Diskusage Applet

This is version 1.0 of the Diskusage Applet manual.

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Disk Usage Applet

Disk Usage Applet

Disk Usage Applet, shown in Figure 1, provides a panel monitor for the amount of space in use and available on your disk drives. To add this applet to the panel, right-click on the panel and choose Applets->Monitors->Disk Usage

Figure 1. Disk Usage Applet

This applet was written by Dave Finton , Bruno Widmann and Martin Baulig . Please send all suggestions and bug reports to GNOME Bug Tracking Database or use command bug-buddy.

Usage

Disk Usage Applet provides real-time monitoring of the available space on your disk drives.

It provides three pieces of information. The colored pie graphically represents how much space is used and how much is available. MP: indicates the mount point of the disk it is currently monitoring. av: indicates the amount of space available on the selected drive, in kilobytes. Left-clicking on the applet changes the drive being monitored. Doing so repeatedly cycles through all available drives.

If you right-click on the applet, it brings up a menu, containing the following commands:

  • Remove from panel — self-explanatory

  • Move applet — allows you to move the applet to a different place on the panel. You can also move the applet by dragging it with the middle mouse button.

  • Panel — brings up a sub-menu allowing you to modify various applet properties.

  • File system — allows you to change the file system Disk Usage Applet monitors.

  • Properties— brings up Properties dialog

  • Update — this can be used to force the applet to update the filesystem list the applet uses.

Customization

You can customize Disk Usage Applet by right-clicking on it and choosing Properties. This will launch the Properties dialog, which allows you to change various settings.

Figure 2. Preferences dialog

To change the colors displayed in the applet, click on the colored buttons next to Used Diskspace, Free Diskspace, Textcolor and Backgroundcolor. A color wheel dialog will pop up offering you color options to make changes. When finished, click on the OK button on the color options window.

Applet Size and can be used to change the height (on a horizontal panel) or width (on a vertical panel) of the applet.

By checking the Automatically pick best applet size check box, you can force Disk Usage Applet to automatically choose the appropriate size for your panel.

Update Frequency can be used to change the amount of time, in seconds, between updates of Disk Usage Applet.

After you have made all the choices you want, click on OK to make the changes and close the Properties dialog. To cancel the changes and return to previous values, click on Cancel button.