Quick-Start

Contents:

 

Using an off-the-shelf config. 1

Modifying an Existing Config. 1

Creating a New Config. 1

Overlays. 2

Meters. 2

Displaying the Value of a Meter 3

Controllers. 3

 

If you’ve got this far then you’ve seen the Big Blue Question mark. Now you have to tell SysStats what you want it to do. You’ve now got three choices:

 

  1. Use an off-the-shelf config.
  2. Modify an existing config.
  3. Make your own ‘config’.

Using an off-the-shelf config

Modifying an Existing Config

If you want to modify an existing config, maybe change the icon, use a different font or change the colors you can.

Creating a New Config

This is actually no different than Modifying an Existing Config – you just have more work to do J

Overlays

An overlay is something you can see. It might be an image, it might be text or it might be a graph. Open up the SysStats config dialog (right click on a docklet and select ‘Configure…’ from the popup menu), then hit the Overlays tab. You will see the following dialog:

 

Meters

A meter is something that holds information that you want to display. This information usually changes over time, and when it does the meter will let SysStats know and SysStats will update its display (in fact many meters aren’t very good at updating themselves, so SysStats has to prod them). Open up the SysStats config dialog (right click on a docklet and select ‘Configure…’ from the popup menu), then hit the Meters tab.

Displaying the Value of a Meter

You use Overlays to display the value of a Meter. Open up the SysStats config dialog (right click on a docklet and select ‘Configure…’ from the popup menu).

Controllers

Controllers can be used to make things happen (e.g. run an application, animate an image, control a media player, open a hyperlink etc.). They can do this when you interact with the docklet (e.g. by clicking on part of it or dropping a file on it), or when something else does (e.g. a timer goes off). Open up the SysStats config dialog (right click on a docklet and select ‘Configure…’ from the popup menu), then hit the Controllers tab.