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New to Linux: Can I Script the Opening and Positioning of Multiple Terminal Windows on Startup?

posted by martyb on Thursday January 17 2019, @01:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the automation++ dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Hi all,

I have been learning linux and have a secondary monitor that I wanted to use for showing some sensor data. Currently I need to manually enter in three commands and then arrange my windows each time I want to look at (and start-up, etc). I am using the nethogs, inxi, and lm-sensors libraries:

sudo nethogs
watch -n1 "inxi -s"
watch -n1 "sensors | grep Tdie"

The end result looks something like this:
https://i.ibb.co/TgWXKSn/sensors.png

Is it possible/easy to script the opening of these three terminal windows and position them onto a specific monitor? Or is there a completely different better way to go about this?

Also, is there a way for me to custom arrange the data on the screen? Eg, could I put the sensors "Tdie" data into two columns and remove the "high = +70.0 C" info?

[Beyond this specific case, is there a general solution with, say, a directory containing a separate shell script for launching each program, with a master script that specifies terminal width/height as well as (x,y) coordinates? --Ed.]

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 17 2019, @03:25AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 17 2019, @03:25AM (#787755) Journal

    1. no, you can't move conky around. Instead you edit your startup script to place the windows where you want them. The script determines transparency, colors, size of text, how many CPU's you're monitoring - everything. Once running, conky can't be altered.

    2. I've not used nethogs, so I really don't know if it's compatible with conky. Maybe a search for "conky nethogs"? There are hits to SuperUser and to StackExchange in my search window, both summaries seem to say "no". Sorry.

    But, the existence of Conky proves that it is possible to perform the tasks that you originally asked about. I'm a lame-ass scripter, and we have some good scripters on the site. I'll let some of those people offer their ideas. ;^)

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 17 2019, @05:03AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 17 2019, @05:03AM (#787789) Homepage Journal

    1. If you change the config while conky is running, it will pick up the changes and try to adjust. Some changes like compositing/transparency methods do not work well with that though.

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