system monitor for awesome

Hessiess · 2008-08-01 00:23:29

Im currently using awesome, its great except for one thing, there is no system monitor, like gnome-system-monitor for example. though I want something that dosent depend on gnome and displays remainning laptop battery time, aswell as mounted file systems, ram/cpu/network usage and a list of prosesses.

thunderogg · 2008-08-01 11:29:20

Have you tried Conky?

Mefju · 2008-08-01 12:10:55

Maybe htop is what you are looking for.

Procyon · 2008-08-01 13:15:40

Having htop open all the time in tiled mode looks really pretty, but it doesn't do some of the things you want.

Ruckus · 2008-08-03 03:31:36

I think conky is going to be your best bet.

whargoul · 2008-08-03 15:11:21

awesomeness does some of the things you want. If you are an good Perl hacker you could modify it, to fit your needs.

chimpyw · 2008-08-03 22:41:58

Lots of things you can use really, but +1 for conky here.
A couple other options though are dzen and amazing although I have never used the latter.

Last edited by chimpyw (2008-08-03 22:42:20)

Hessiess · 2008-08-04 15:04:45

conky seems about right but the battery monitor dosent work porpaly. when plugged it says 'AC', but when its running on battery it always reports as 'full' insted of a percentage. then when the power is re-connected it always starts charging from 0%.

awagner · 2008-08-04 15:25:57

Here's what I'm using with dwm - probably good for dzen as well:

dwm-mystats.sh

#!/bin/zsh
# vim:ft=zsh ts=4
#
# (c) 2007 by Robert Manea

# Date format as recognized by standard system 'date'
SDATE_FORMAT='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'

sdate() {
    date +${SDATE_FORMAT}
}

sdfree() {
    print -n `df -h / /home` | awk '{verf1=$11; part1=$13; verf2=$17; part2=$19}; END {print "["part1"] -"verf1"  [~] -"verf2}'
}

smemused() {
    awk '/MemTotal/ {t=$2}; /MemFree/ {f=$2}; END {print t-f " " t}' /proc/meminfo | dbar -w 6 -s '='
}

swapused() {
    awk '/SwapTotal/ {t=$2}; /SwapFree/ {f=$2}; END {print t-f " " t}' /proc/meminfo | dbar -w 6 -s '='
}

sload() {
    print -n ${(@)$(</proc/loadavg)[1,3]}
}

scpu() {
    vmstat | awk '/0/ {print 100-$15}' | dbar -w 6 -s '='
    }

snetabs() {
    local iface
    iface=`ifconfig | grep "Ethernet" | awk '{print $1}'`
    if [ $iface != "" ] ; then 
        print -n "$iface: `mesure -l -i $iface -avK -c 2`||" 
    fi
}

snetbar() {
    mesure -aK -c 2 -l -i `ifconfig | grep "Ethernet" | awk '{print $1}'` | dbar -nonl -w 6 -s '=' -min 0 -max 270
}

sac() {
    case `awk '{print $2}' /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state` in
    on-line)
        print -n "yep"
        ;;
    *)
        print -n "no"
        ;;
    esac
}

sbatt() {
    local STATE
    STATE=`cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info`
    case `echo $STATE | awk '/present:/{print $2}' - | tail -n 1` in
    no)
        print -n "no"
        ;;
    *)
        echo $STATE | awk '/design capacity:/ {f=$3}; /remaining capacity:/ {r=$3}; END {print 100*r/f"%"}' -
        ;;
    esac
}

sgov() {
    < /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
}

sfreq() {
    awk '{print $1/1000}' /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
}

stemp() {
     awk '{print $2}' /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRC/temperature
}

supdates() {
    grep pkg.tar.gz /var/log/updates.log | wc -l
}

# Main
while true; do
    upd=$(supdates)
    if [ $upd = 0 ] ; then
        print " AC: $(sac) | Batt: $(sbatt) || $(sdfree) || CPU:$(scpu) ($(sload)) |  $(sgov) / $(sfreq) MHz -> $(stemp)°  || $(sdate)"
    else
        print " AC: $(sac) | Batt: $(sbatt) || $(sdfree) || CPU:$(scpu) ($(sload)) |  $(sgov) / $(sfreq) MHz -> $(stemp)° || $upd UPD. || $(sdate)"
    fi
# change polling frequency in AC/BATT mode
    case $(sac) in
        yep)
            sleep 8
            ;;
        no)
            sleep 1m
            ;;
    esac
done

You can play around a bit with the functions that get called/displayed in the main loop. It depends on zsh and makes use of this cronjob (in /etc/cron.hourly/pacsync):

#!/bin/dash
pacman -Syup --noprogressbar > /var/log/updates.log

nDray · 2008-08-04 21:36:19

I have this little program sending me info to the dwm bar. From the things you listed, it just doesn't show BATTERY usage and a list of processes, that would be harsh...
http://bugflux.org/bugdev/dwmstat/dwmstat.c
Note that some info might not work in your computer because I wrote this to my hardware and configurations...

If you really need to see the list of processes, you should consider something like htop running in a console...

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