hmmm... Sounds good. I never could resist a challenge. Going check it out.

One small app I do miss from Windows (*blush*) is the pie-chart showing disk space. Anyone know of a small and fast Linux version--without having to launch a partition utility? (especially useful when using small hard drives and you want to keep an eye on space).

Hi malanrich

You could add a line (or lines) to your .conkyrc file so it shows your space in a bar line.


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Something like this: Obviously make sure the mnt points to your partition.

${color white}Space:
${color white}Root:${color red}${fs_free/}${color green}=${fs_free_perc /}%
${color white}Music:${color red} ${fs_free /mnt/sda5} ${color green}= ${fs_free_perc /mnt/sda5}%
${color white}Video:${color red} ${fs_free /mnt/sdb6} ${color green}= ${fs_free_perc /mnt/sdb6}%
${color white}Docs:${color red} ${fs_free /mnt/sdb5} ${color green}= ${fs_free_perc /mnt/sdb5}%

anticapitalista wrote:Hi malanrich

You could add a line (or lines) to your .conkyrc file so it shows your space in a bar line.

Excellent. Works great. Thanks. I'm keeping my eyes open for something"graphic." (Yes, I'm like a chimp. Sometimes I like to look at colored baubles...)

Haven't tried it on antiX (yet!), but I use baobab under Ubuntu. Not a pie chart, but very capable with loads of"colored baubles." __{{emoticon}}__

Note: I don't know how many, if any, dependencies can be satisfied by other packages already loaded by antiX. Perhaps someone else can guesstimate the size of the added libraries (if that matters to you).

Baobab build dependencies are: libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.6.0), libgnomeui-dev, libgnomevfs2-dev, libgconf2-dev, libgtop2-dev (>= 2.10.0)

Since those are"build" dependencies, that info may not be material for simply installing the prebuilt .deb file. I'd just note space used (e.g.,"du" command), install the program, check space used and determine whether I could live with the size of the program and dependencies loaded.

Baobab is a C/gtk+ application to analyse disk usage in any Gnome environment. Baobab can easily scan either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote). It also includes a complete file-search functionality and auto-detects in real-time any changes made to your home directory as far as any mounted/unmounted device. Baobab also provides a full graphical treemap window for each selected folder.

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Ooh. Pretty colors in Baobab (Homer voice)...

Actually this looks like a pretty sophisticated app. If I want just information, I should check to see what the load time is between Baobab and something like Qparted (which seems to take quite a while on my low-end laptop).

BTW: Why do we have no"thanks" tab like the one at MEPISlovers?

I should check to see what the load time is between Baobab and something like Qparted

Both are reasonably quick to load for me, with Baobab being slightly quicker. Approximately 3 seconds vs approximately 4-5 seconds, running Duron 900 MHz, 384 MB, Ubuntu 6.04/Dapper from hard disk. Makes sense, since baobab is about 75 KB while qtparted is about 350 KB.

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Good stuff on using built-in commands effectively. Useful skills to have, even if you have enough horsepower to run a GUI tool.

Tip: Determine what commands & parameters are most useful to your circumstances and create a couple of dead simple shell scripts (like windows .cmd files) so that you don't have to remember/type all that stuff. Alternatively, create aliases (like macros). See
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Can't beat the speed/size of the built-in commands!

secdroid wrote: Good stuff on using built-in commands effectively. Useful skills to have, even if you have enough horsepower to run a GUI tool.

Since antiX appeals to the GUI-lite crowd, it should be really useful to work out built-in commands for specific functions and put them in the"tips" archive...once the new antiX reaches final.

There is some good stuff coming out of this thread concerning light apps suitable when using antiX. Keep them coming!

Calcurse (in synaptic) is a nice, fast, lightweight calendar with scheduler and to-do list functions that runs in terminal. Check it our here:
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