Comments on: Howto: Desktop “widgets” for the console

By: GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 231 (12/20/2009)

GoblinX Project » GoblinX Newsletter, Issue 231 (12/20/2009) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:30:30 +0000

[...] Howto: Desktop “widgets” for the console [...]

By: Onyros

Onyros — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:08:47 +0000

I don’t mind at all, obviously

I still have those ISO’s lying around, never found them good enough to get them out there, though.

You made me want to reinstall Fluxbox and that particular configuration, but ever since going Awesome –> DWM I’ve found MY environment. That one’s still looking pretty good, though and I do remember the memory usage being very, very low, almost Slitaz low.

Cool to see what has evolved in terms of programs I used (and endorsed) back then – 2 years and a half ago, already! – and what I’m using now!

I’m no longer using Conky, though. I have a self-made script piped to DWM’s “status bar”, and a terminal window with iftop as a network monitor.

By: Links 18/12/2009: More GNU/Linux Migrations, GNOME 3.0 Preparations | Boycott Novell

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:40:37 +0000

[...] Howto: Desktop “widgets” for the console [...]

By: Mild enthusiasm for conky-cli « Motho ke motho ka botho

Mild enthusiasm for conky-cli « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:12:21 +0000

[...] for conky-cli Published 2009/12/18 Linux Leave a Comment Duly informed of the joys of conky-cli and the much-needed watch command, I decided to try out both of them this evening, and came up with [...]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:41:51 +0000

There’s a pkgbuild for a special conky build that doesn’t require any X libs called conky-cli in the AUR, you could very easily change it to a PKGFILE for crux.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:06:34 +0000

I was not aware of that, thanks. I’ll have to try it out and see what trouble I can get into. …

By: ing

ing — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:49:16 +0000

You know, conky can output to the console with “out_to_console yes”.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:59:50 +0000

I like that, thanks. I hadn’t heard of it. Cheers!

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:53:46 +0000

You may also look into “watch” instead of making a periodic loop to run your programs. For example…

while true ; do cdf -t ext2 -hm ; sleep 10s ; clear ; done

would be

watch -n 10 -t cdf -t ext2 -hm

Watch clears itself between each interval, so no need for the ‘clear’. Something I’ve used myself in the past, and something I find a little cleaner.