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sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

adesklets under Awesome?

I've recently switched to Awesome and I've been looking for a good system monitor. I saw adesklets, which has a system monitor as a desklet, that could do what I needed sysmonitor-wise and many other useful widgets.

I can't figure out how to get these working under Awesome. I JFGI but nothing came up (downside of a window manager named awesome: it's not the only thing using the word...bright side: lots of people think adesklets is awesome!).

GoingDown

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 7

Re: adesklets under Awesome?

Awesome is awesome! I am using it too

I am using conky as system monitor, it is awesome too. And light. But, no idea about adesklets, maybe I will give it a try

EDIT. I did give it a quick try:

First, as root

pacman -S adesklets
gpasswd -a {username} adesklets

Then, as normal user

adesklets -i
cd ~/.desklets/aanalogue-0.1.0
./aanalogue-0.1.0.py
adesklets

* when running adesklets -i, I selected first from the list (aanalogue), and installed it. Then quit
* when running aanalogue-0.1.0.py, it asks what to do, I said (r)egister
* after running adesklets without arguments, clock appeared

Screenshot below, see clock in upper left corner:

Last edited by GoingDown (2008-04-29 11:21:02)

bavardage

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Registered: 2008-02-17

Posts: 160

Re: adesklets under Awesome?

Heh wow! That is my clock, as in I was its creator - nice to see it being used somewhere. I had to stop using adesklets as they seem to break with xcompmgr - if anyone knows a fix for this, lemme know.

Btw - the screenshot reminded me to go update aanalogue and anote - unless I screwed up the screenshot sizes yet again, they should be on the adesklets site soonish.

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sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

Re: adesklets under Awesome?

rl]http://koti.mbnet.fi/mvaisane/images/awesome-screenshot.jpg[/url]

Thanks for the help. The desklets are useful, but if I can get conky running I don't need the system monitor one.

How did you get conky working with Awesome?

GoingDown

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 7

Re: adesklets under Awesome?

How did you get conky working with Awesome?

I just installed it

my .conkyrc, which is quite basic configuration from time long past

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Set conky on the bottom of all other applications
#on_bottom yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=9

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

# Print everything to stdout?
out_to_console no

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 5.0

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 320 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline yes

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 8

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment none

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 12
gap_y 12

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer no

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT

$nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine
$stippled_hr
${color grey}${time %d.%m.%C%y %R} ${color lightgrey}Uptime:$color $uptime 
 ${color lightgrey}- Load:$color $loadavg speed: $freq Mhz
${color lightgrey}CPU Usage:${color #cc2222} $cpu% ${cpubar}
${color red}${cpugraph 0000ff 00ff00}
${color lightgrey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar}
${color lightgrey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar}
${color lightgrey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}eth0: ${addr eth0}
 Down:${color #8844ee} ${downspeed eth0} k/s${color lightgrey} ${offset 80}Up:${color #22ccff} ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color #0000ff}${downspeedgraph eth0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff} ${color #22ccff}${upspeedgraph eth0 32,150 0000ff ff0000}
${color lightgrey}wlan0: ${addr wlan0} Link status: ${wireless_link_qual wlan0} %
 Down:${color #8844ee} ${downspeed wlan0} k/s${color lightgrey} ${offset 80}Up:${color #22ccff} ${upspeed wlan0} k/s
${color #0000ff}${downspeedgraph wlan0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff} ${color #22ccff}${upspeedgraph wlan0 32,150 0000ff ff0000}
${color lightgrey}$stippled_hr
File systems:
 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar /}
 home $color${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home} ${fs_bar /home}
 data $color${fs_used /media/data}/${fs_size /media/data} ${fs_bar /media/data}
${color lightgrey}$stippled_hr
System Temperature:$color ${acpitemp} C${color grey}
Battery: ${battery C1F4}, time: ${battery_time C1F4}
$stippled_hr
${color}Name              PID     CPU%   MEM%
${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color}Mem usage
${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 2}

My problem is that usually windows are filling whole screen, so you cannot see conky (but that is problem with tiling window managers in general). I thing there is way to get conky running on statusbar but haven't tried it yet.

EDIT. If you try conky with my config, remember to configure at least filesystem paths and acpi battery name (if in laptop)

Last edited by GoingDown (2008-05-02 06:44:30)