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mcsysinfogui
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 26 June 2001
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NAME
mcsysinfogui - MagniComp(tm) SysInfo(tm) Graphical User Interface (GUI)
SYNOPSIS
sysinfo
(see
sysinfo(1)
for command line arguments)
DESCRIPTION
The
MagniComp(tm)
SysInfo(tm)
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
displays detailed data about the local system in a graphical form.
It uses the
mcsysinfoperl(3)
interface to obtain it's data.
The
mcsysinfoperl(3)
interface uses the
sysinfo(1)
Command Line Interface (CLI) to obtain it's data.
When
the
sysinfo
command is invoked the GUI is started if the following conditions are
all met:
-
- The
$DISPLAY
environment variable is set.
- The command line option
-nw
was not specified.
- The
Tk
module is available in
perl(1)
When the GUI is started it will automatically retrieve selected classes of
system data and display the results.
A progress meter will display
Probing system
while the data is retrieve via the
sysinfo(1)
command.
However, due to limitations in the
mcsysinfoperl(3)
interface the progress bar will not be displayed nor updated during the
system probe phase.
WINDOW PANES
The main window is divided up into the following sections:
-
- Menu Bar
-
The top line of the window contains the
Menu Bar.
See
MENUS
below for details.
- Class Selection
-
The second line contains a list of data class type toggle buttons.
(e.g.
General, Hardware, Partition,
When an entry is selected (button depressed) that class of data will be
displayed or undisplayed in the
Display Pane
below.
When a class is selected for the first time the system will automatically
be probed for the relevant data and displayed.
When a class is de-selected the relevant data is removed from the
Display Pane
but kept in memory.
If a previously de-selected class is re-selected the data will be displayed
using the in memory data.
- Arrange Hardware
-
This line relates only to
Hardware
class data and is used to select how the
Hardware
class data is organized.
Arrangement options are as follows:
-
- Connection
-
Hardware is organized according to how it is connected together.
i.e. Disks on the same controller appear under the same controller.
- Type
-
Hardware is organized by it's type.
i.e. All disks appear together regardless of connection.
- Display Pane
-
The
Display Pane
is the largest area of the main window and is where the
class data is displayed.
The pane is organized into a series of tree-like hierarchies
with each class of data
as the root of a tree.
Lines which begin with a
+
(plus)
have undisplayed data.
Clicking once on such a line
will reveal more detailed properties, but will not unveil any child
nodes in the display (if any).
Clicking once on the
+
(plus)
will reveal all properties and child nodes (if any).
Clicking again on the line or on the
+
(plus)
will undisplay the data.
The
View->All Properties
menu will do the equivalent of clicking on all
+
(plus)
characters of all lines.
- Message Pane
-
The
Message Pane
appears directly under the
Display Pane
and is used to display general messages and errors.
MENUS
The describe the menus available from the
Menu Bar
at the top of the main window:
-
- File
-
-
- Open...
-
Displays a file open dialog prompting for a file to use as input
rather than running
sysinfo(1).
The file should be of the format generated by
sysinfo -repsep '|' -format report.
- Exit
-
Exit the program.
- View
-
-
- All Properties
-
Toggles the display of all property values in the
Display Pane.
- Enable Debug
-
Toggles debugging output.
- Help
-
-
- About...
-
Displays version information.
- License Info...
-
Displays information about the license you are using.
- License Terms...
-
Displays the license terms for use of the software.
- Copyright...
-
Displays the copyright of the software.
AUTHOR
MagniComp
http://www.MagniComp.com
URL
http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo
FILES
/opt/sysinfo/config - Directory of config files
SEE ALSO
sysinfo(1)
mcsysinfoperl(1)
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- WINDOW PANES
-
- MENUS
-
- AUTHOR
-
- URL
-
- FILES
-
- SEE ALSO
-
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