Hi. Just in case anyone is interested here is another gadget for your dzen statusbar, a cpu usage meter. It was designed to work with Linux and relies on the existance of "/proc/stat". Usage: cpubar [-c <charcount>] [-s <symbol>] [-i <interval>] With: charcount = number of chars to be considered 100% (defaults to 25) symbol = a single character representing the corresponding percentage value (defaults to '=') interval = update interval in seconds (defaults to 1) Used with dzen it could looks like this: http://omploader.org/file/xmonad-cpubar.png Grab cpubar here: http://gotmor.googlepages.com/cpubar.c The commandline for the above shot: cpubar | \ dzen2 -bg '#aecfaa' -fg black -w 235 -ta l \ -fn '-*-profont-*-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859' \ -x 350 -e 'button1=exec:uterm -e htop' Have fun, Rob.