Re: Alternative layout for Gkrellm?

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:43:22 -0400 (EDT)
"Benjamin R. Haskell" <[email protected]> wrote:

> When trying to use gkrellm, I continually find myself mistakenly 
> associating the charts with the panel above them.  Is there a way to 
> invert the standard chart+panel ordering?
> 
> I.e. currently Gkrellm shows up as the ASCII art at left; I'd like the 
> right:
> 
> +-- thing1 ---+        +-- thing1 ---+
> +-- thing2 ---+        +-- thing2 ---+
> | thing3 data |        +-- thing3 ---+
> | thing3 data |        | thing3 data |
> +-- thing3 ---+        | thing3 data |
> | thing4 data |        +-- thing4 ---+
> | thing4 data |        | thing4 data |
> +-- thing4 ---+        | thing4 data |
> | thing5 data |        +-- thing5 ---+
> | thing5 data |        | thing5 data |
> +-- thing5 ---+        | thing5 data |
> +-- thing6 ---+        +-- thing6 ---+
> +-- thing7 ---+        +-- thing7 ---+

It should work for most cases if you change the packing order of the
chart and panel boxes in the create routines.  Try this patch:

diff -urN gkrellm.orig/src/chart.c gkrellm/src/chart.c
--- gkrellm.orig/src/chart.c	2008-10-03 19:33:37.000000000 -0500
+++ gkrellm/src/chart.c	2009-07-24 16:04:03.762111124 -0500
@@ -1836,7 +1836,7 @@
 	if (!cp->box)
 		{		
 		cp->box = gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, 0);	/* not a hbox anymore !! */
-		gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(vbox), cp->box, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
+		gtk_box_pack_end(GTK_BOX(vbox), cp->box, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
 
 		cp->top_spacer.vbox = gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, 0);
 		gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(cp->box), cp->top_spacer.vbox,
diff -urN gkrellm.orig/src/panel.c gkrellm/src/panel.c
--- gkrellm.orig/src/panel.c	2008-10-03 19:33:37.000000000 -0500
+++ gkrellm/src/panel.c	2009-07-24 16:04:03.762111124 -0500
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@
 	if (p->hbox == NULL)
 		{
 		hbox = gtk_hbox_new(FALSE, 0);
-		gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER(vbox), hbox);
+		gtk_box_pack_end(GTK_BOX(vbox), hbox, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
 		p->hbox = hbox;
 		p->drawing_area = gtk_drawing_area_new();
 		p->layout = gtk_widget_create_pango_layout(top_win, NULL);

If this doesn't work for a monitor (because it creates its panels/charts in some
unusual way) you'll have to change the specific monitor code.  Offhand, the only
monitor I know of that would have this problem is the memory monitor with its
swap chart (if you have the swap chart enabled).

Bill

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