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sandisxxx
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Drive activity (AKA HDD LED) for Cinnamon

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Hello, is there some applet for Cinnamon that shows HDD/SSD activity, similar to Diskled for Windows?
My laptop does not have LED to show the disk activity which I miss a lot.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Drive activity (AKA HDD LED) for Cinnamon

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Bump.
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Re: Drive activity (AKA HDD LED) for Cinnamon

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Hello I also wanted hdd activity monitor lights and someone made a program for me, its in python and details are in the topic, Its for arch linux cinnamon but is generic so should work in linux mint cinnamon also. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=265548
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Re: Drive activity (AKA HDD LED) for Cinnamon

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Thanks, will check it out.
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Re: Drive activity (AKA HDD LED) for Cinnamon

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The final code programs you will find them at https://github.com/mdoege/hd-led_pygtk
and thers is another one for network lights in there as well
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