bPulse

bPulse is an iPulse-inspired (by iconfactory) graphical system monitoring tool for Linux and MacOS. It is written in C++ and relies on X11, X11's Shape Extension, X11's Back-buffer Extension, libpng, and FreeType fonts. Either GLX or Xrender can be selected as the drawing backend. bPulse is capable of monitoring CPU, memory, disk-I/O, network-I/O, disk usage, users logged in, and keep track of the date and time.

Running bPulse on MaOS requires that the XQuartz X11 window manager is installed.

Usage

bPulse is compiled with:

make USE_XRender=1

to use the Xrender backend or

make USE_GLX=1

to use the GLX backend for drawing graphics.

This results in a binary executable called bpulse, which can be invoked as follows:

./bpulse &

Theming

bPulse uses a straight-forward theming system that relies on a simple text (.theme) file and PNG images. The default theme located in the data-directory, can be the starting point for one's own creations.

Notes

1. On MacOS XCode and the developer tools needs to be installed.
2. Both Linux and MacOS require libpng.

BSD-3 License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

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