James B. Byrne wrote: > I have a couple of oddities that I hope someone here can clarify for me. > > OS = CentOS-5.2 all updates applied to date. > > 1. On the gnome desktop in the top panel (or menu bar) I have an icon for > "System Monitor" which runs the application "gnome-system-monitor". On my > other desktop CentOS-5.2 system I have the same thing. However, one one > system the icon gives me a real time (ok 5 sec intervals) display of cpu > load as cyan and white bar graphs . On the other system the same > application gives me a static, sickly green and yellow, display of an > oscilloscope. How do I get the dynamic version of the icon? I have > checked and both systems are running the same version of the applicvation > from the same location. /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor --version = 2.16.0 > > 2. On the same two systems, the first (the one with the dynamic display) > has entries on the system dropdown menufor locking the display, logging > out and shutting down. On the second all I have is logout and suspend. > Going to the Gnome Menu manager does not give me any option to add the > missing items. > > Can somebody tell me how to get these minor, but for me very desirable, > changes made to the second system? The only difference between the two > systems that I can recall is that one (the first) was upgraded from 4.6 > while the second (the more limited unit) was a clean install. As I recall, it was not recommended by our Upstream, or our developers, to upgrade from 4.x to 5.x? Possibly there is some issue, causing the strange differences you are seeing. I'm also a GNOME user, but I don't have a solution for you. Hoping someone else will know how to cure it.