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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• gkrellm
• gkrellmd

Projektgeschichte

The official release README identifies Bill Wilson as author, Stefan Gehn as maintainer, and gives copyright years beginning in 1999. It describes GKrellM as GNU or Gtk Krell Monitors, a single process that manages multiple stacked monitors and supports themes.

GKrellM evolved in the classic GTK desktop-monitor tradition: dense visual meters, configurable alarms, click actions, mailbox checks, hardware sensors, and many themes. Its official page emphasizes matching the user's window manager or GTK theme and reducing system load by putting many monitors into one process.

The maintained source release history shows long-lived care for portability and packaging. Later releases added OpenSSL and GnuTLS updates, systemd service files for gkrellmd, Meson build rules, macOS build choices, Solaris and BSD fixes, Windows fixes, and modern compiler compatibility.

Adoptionsgeschichte

GKrellM's adoption came from Unix desktop users who wanted always-visible local telemetry before dashboard web apps became common. The official page points to theme documentation, plugins, screenshots, and mailing-list archives, which reflects a desktop community built around customization.

Package metadata in this batch shows GKrellM packaged by Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Ubuntu, and openSUSE. That spread is typical for a long-lived GTK utility that remained useful to desktop and workstation users across Unix-like systems.

Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners run gkrellm as a desktop monitor or gkrellmd as a data-collection server. The client can connect to a remote gkrellmd host, which lets users watch another machine with the same compact panel interface.

Users configure themes, sensor warnings, chart behavior, mail checks, mount buttons, click commands, and plugins through files under the GKrellM configuration directory. The result is closer to a personalized instrument panel than a generic metrics dashboard.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

GKrellM matters because it is a durable example of old Unix desktop tooling that did many practical things in a small footprint. It packs sensors, mail, network, filesystems, plugins, theming, and remote collection into one GTK application.

For packagers, it is interesting because it carries desktop UI dependencies, optional sensor and TLS features, daemon installation, translations, plugins, and platform-specific build paths in one compact package.

Zeitleiste

• 1999: The release README's copyright range begins, identifying the early project era.
• 2010: GKrellM 2.3.5 documents portability, IPv6, mail, and build fixes.
• 2016: GKrellM 2.3.8 through 2.3.10 add disk, network, Pango, and NVMe-related fixes.
• 2019: GKrellM 2.3.11 updates OpenSSL support and fixes disk-formatting safety issues.
• 2025: GKrellM 2.4.0 and 2.5.0 modernize service installation, TLS support, Meson builds, and platform support.
• 2026: GKrellM 2.5.1 fixes Windows, Solaris, DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, and Meson build issues.

Related projects

• GTK is the UI toolkit used by GKrellM.
• gkrellmd is the companion server for remote monitoring.
• lm_sensors, sysfs sensors, mbmon, hddtemp, and nvidia-settings are named sensor data sources.
• GKrellM plugins and themes form the surrounding customization ecosystem.

Quellen

• https://billw2.github.io/gkrellm/gkrellm.html
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gkrellm
• https://gkrellm.srcbox.net/releases/gkrellm-2.5.1.tar.bz2