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      1 PACKAGE INFORMATION
      2 ===================
      3 
      4 An extension of the builtin CPU Usage Monitor plugin in lxpanel.
      5 
      6 This adds the ability to monitor:
      7  1. Individual CPU cores
      8  2. Memory usage
      9  3. Swap usage
     10 
     11 
     12 DEPENDENCIES
     13 ============
     14 
     15 This package uses several other packages with different names
     16 depending on distribution.
     17 
     18 For Ubuntu 14.04:
     19   pkg-config
     20   libglib2.0-dev
     21   libgtk2.0-dev
     22   libmenu-cache1-dev
     23 
     24 For Ubuntu 11.04:
     25   lxpanel
     26   pkg-config
     27   libglib2.0-dev
     28   libgtk2.0-dev
     29   libmenu-cache1-dev
     30 
     31 For Debian systems the additional package is needed:
     32   lxpanel-dev
     33 
     34 For Fedora 16:
     35   lxpanel-devel
     36   gtk2-devel
     37 
     38 
     39 INSTALLATION
     40 ============
     41 
     42 To install this package run on a fresh ubuntu 11.04 system:
     43   sudo apt-get install build-essential lxde
     44   sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libmenu-cache1-dev 
     45   make
     46   sudo make install
     47 
     48 On debian (and possible other systems) the package 'lxpanel-dev' is
     49 also needed: 
     50   sudo apt-get install lxpanel-dev
     51 
     52 To install in Arch Linux
     53   Available PKGBUILD in the AUR:
     54     https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpu-monitor-extension-lxpanel-plugin
     55 
     56 
     57 USAGE
     58 =====
     59 
     60 Once installed, follow these steps to add the plugin:
     61   Right-click panel
     62   Select "Add / Remove Panel Items"
     63   Press "Add"
     64   Select and add "CPU Usage Monitor (da)"
     65   Right-click plugin to change settings
     66 
     67 To monitor multiple things, add multiple monior plugins.
     68 
     69 
     70 AUTHOR INFORMATION
     71 ==================
     72 
     73 Author: Dan Amlund Thomsen
     74 Email: dan@danamlund.dk
     75 Website: http://danamlund.dk
     76 Github: https://github.com/danamlund/cpu-monitor-extension-lxpanel-plugin
     77 
     78 CHANGELOG
     79 =========
     80 
     81 1.5 (2014-10-28)
     82   Enable modification of the background color via the settings dialog.
     83   (pull request by https://github.com/Winterbraid)
     84 
     85 1.4 (2014-04-26)
     86   Improved Makefile. It should now compile and install on more systems
     87 
     88 1.3 (2013-11-13) 
     89   Added setting to control the width of the widget.
     90 
     91 1.2 (2013-07-11) 
     92   Took the cpu monitor plugin from lxpanel. Added
     93   settings to monitor single cores, memory usage and swap usage.