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chochem

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-02

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tty statusbar?

I use ttys a lot concurrent with an x session, however when I do stay out of X for longer periods of time, I miss the gnome-panel status stuff, like date and time and so on and probably most importantly, just the feeling that the screen is 'anchored' with that bar at the top. I've tried using  GNU Screen but (at least as far as i can tell) it is too restrictive: I can't have a status bar at the top and besides it seems to monopolize certain keys like the F-keys which makes for instance htop harder to use.

Does anyone have any ideas? I don't really need a lot of functionality just 'lo-fi-candy'.

nick.stumpos

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From: lansing,Mi

Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 9

Re: tty statusbar?

doesnt really solve your 'anchored' problem but you could put the date and time in your prompt with the P1 variable

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

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Re: tty statusbar?

dvtm

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: tty statusbar?

I use ttys a lot concurrent with an x session, however when I do stay out of X for longer periods of time, I miss the gnome-panel status stuff, like date and time and so on and probably most importantly, just the feeling that the screen is 'anchored' with that bar at the top. I've tried using  GNU Screen but (at least as far as i can tell) it is too restrictive: I can't have a status bar at the top and besides it seems to monopolize certain keys like the F-keys which makes for instance htop harder to use.

Does anyone have any ideas? I don't really need a lot of functionality just 'lo-fi-candy'.

AFAIK screen doesn't bind any F-keys unless you tell it to.  As previously mentioned, you may be looking for dvtm.

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chochem

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-02

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Re: tty statusbar?

Thanks for the tip. I've installed it and it's looking good - well, sorta don't much like the colors and so on - but this might present a problem:

       dvtm  is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the
       source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.

I'll guess I'll have to try using ABS and see what it yields...

Last edited by chochem (2008-12-19 18:25:28)

hack.augusto

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 124

Re: tty statusbar?

You actually can have the screen hardstatus bar at the top, BUT it is defined at the compilation time, and you can have all information that you can gather with a shellscript in it using bactick.
For instance, i have a script to show my battery life:

backtick 3 30 30 /home/augusto/.bin/screen_battery
hardstatus string "%3`"

Last edited by hack.augusto (2008-12-19 18:33:41)