I created another Linux utility with Lazarus. Here is my CPU Graph utility:

http://cache.getlazarus.org/video/widget-cpugraph.mp4

It can record up to 1 hour of CPU activity while silently sitting in the tray. Pressing a hotkey toggles the display of the graph.

I am probably going to add a few styles the user can choose from as well individual CPU percentages and core speed stepping (CPU Mhz can change depending on system load).

I think the benefit of this over the gnome system monitor is that when the gnome monitor is closed no CPU activity is recorded. Mine allows you to change the graph range and rewind through history. It also uses very little resources when it's not being displayed. Oh and it's easier to open/close (through a global hotkey).
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Great. Where can I get it?

Mattias

I'm going to revise the getlazarus front page and include a rotating banner linking to a few projects, with the ability to download both window installers and deb packages, as well as the source code.

So far I have created a screen grab a color mixer, a screen magnifier, a deb package maker, this cpu graph, and I am finishing my desktop image/video capture and share (through S3). All should work cross platform (still working on this). If anyone wants to test any of these before I finish updating the website, I can post links to deb files.

With my last app, a deb package maker (
http://cache.getlazarus.org/images/cpugraph-deb.png) people expressed interest. I posted the debs and haven't heard anything back, so there's that.

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Patience Grasshopper...I'm working out some bugs/kinks in my program (works great in kub14.04, and not so well in kub15.04). When that is done, next on list is to try the deb packager.

Here's an update:

I added the a timeline scrubber control to go through the CPU usage history up to 1 hour:

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Anthony! Very good. You made what I dreamed about, this transparent widget system is very good,I like it so much and I have just one problem and that is big form painting,for more info open hilite example and focus on grid and resize the form and make it big.

Thank you, Ara