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KrispyCamel4u / SysMonTask

Linux system monitor with the compactness and usefulness of windows task manager to allow higher control and monitoring.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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other distro support #8

Open lollilol opened 3 years ago

lollilol commented 3 years ago

at first: thanks for this great program. i really appreciate it, i have not found another program that is as good as this. My problem that i have is that there is only a .deb. I would really appreciate it if you would also provide a .rpm for Fedora/RHEL Users and an AUR for Arch users.

lollilol commented 3 years ago

also i have custom font settings that dont work because it uses the root user to run. One thing that i noticed lately is that (if you install vmware workstation) you can run "vmware-netcfg" and it asks in a Gnome GUI for admin permissions image and then it also uses the custom fonts that i set. When i run it with sudo it doesnt. So that somehow works too.

Btw im not a coder, else i would probably do some PRs but im really not into coding lol

KrispyCamel4u commented 3 years ago

Hi, Thanks, I will look into that custom font settings issue and I am currently looking for help for packaging for other distros. Meanwhile, can you explain more about the "lag" that you are experiencing?

lollilol commented 3 years ago

sure, i figured out its only while using fakeroot. Everything is fine when just running it normally. But the issue was that it just kind of freezed all the time, it just wasnt reacting to my mouse clicks and also i think i couldn't move the window around. Im using Fedora 33 with Gnome on Wayland.

K0-RR commented 3 years ago

I would like to request a .appimage file. This way we could use SysMonTask on any distro before distribution-specific packages get released (if any). If you were thinking about snap or flatpak then please hold on because both are really bad for various reasons (flatpak is better IMO)

dnet890 commented 3 years ago

Yes, I think install directly from the apt or deb or snap or flatpak package are good alternatives as well

KrispyCamel4u commented 3 years ago

Hi all, The AUR and fedora RPM package has been made. The instructions are in the readme.

mkpankov commented 3 years ago

It's cool seeing progress in this area. However, supporting Fedora 35 which is still in development is not everything. Rather than building for the most recent distributive, it's better to build for reasonably-old-enough distributive as package can then be installed on more recent distributives as well due to backward compatibility of libraries. For example, I'm on Fedora 32 and package for Fedora 35 won't work on my system. Contrary, package for Fedora 32 will work on 35.

KrispyCamel4u commented 3 years ago

It's cool seeing progress in this area. However, supporting Fedora 35 which is still in development is not everything. Rather than building for the most recent distributive, it's better to build for reasonably-old-enough distributive as package can then be installed on more recent distributives as well due to backward compatibility of libraries. For example, I'm on Fedora 32 and package for Fedora 35 won't work on my system. Contrary, package for Fedora 32 will work on 35.

The package build request has already been sent. It will take some time to appear in f33 and f34 repos.

lollilol commented 3 years ago

If you were thinking about snap or flatpak then please hold on because both are really bad for various reasons (flatpak is better IMO)

AppImages are cool because it runs everywhere without you having to install anything, but flatpaks are also really cool, they just work and for example in the spotify package, they fixed a bug thats still to this day in the repo/binary version. Im using flatpak on fedora, maybe its just fedora that integrates it really well, since its also preinstalled i think, but flatpak isnt really that bad as you think.

K0-RR commented 3 years ago

I use flatpacks too but don’t like them mainly because themes don’t work and also sometimes some features. Snaps are just another Cannonical garbage. Appimages are great but sadly they don’t integrate with system well eg you can’t just type it’s name in the xfce app menu to launch it.

mkpankov commented 3 years ago

So, Fedora has very old 1.1.1 which crashes a lot

➜  ~ rpm -qa sysmontask
sysmontask-1.1.1-0.5.beta.b.fc33.noarch

Is there a way to ensure automatic builds of recent versions? I'd like 1.3.9 but I don't want to install from source.

KrispyCamel4u commented 3 years ago

So, Fedora has very old 1.1.1 which crashes a lot

➜  ~ rpm -qa sysmontask
sysmontask-1.1.1-0.5.beta.b.fc33.noarch

Is there a way to ensure automatic builds of recent versions? I'd like 1.3.9 but I don't want to install from source.

Hi, You can track the status of rpm build for sysmontask here Also, I have included the RPM package file in the releases.

Danny3 commented 3 years ago

I use flatpacks too but don’t like them mainly because themes don’t work and also sometimes some features. Snaps are just another Cannonical garbage. Appimages are great but sadly they don’t integrate with system well eg you can’t just type it’s name in the xfce app menu to launch it.

AppImages can be integrated and searched for in the start menu, if you can install AppImageLauncher.

iMonZ commented 3 years ago

I use flatpacks too but don’t like them mainly because themes don’t work and also sometimes some features. Snaps are just another Cannonical garbage. Appimages are great but sadly they don’t integrate with system well eg you can’t just type it’s name in the xfce app menu to launch it.

AppImages can be integrated and searched for in the start menu, if you can install AppImageLauncher.

Maybe snapcraft is a better idea?