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.]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @03:33AM (1 child)
Very helpful tip. Thank you. Except when I try to run something it opens in its own window:
I am sure I will figure it out though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @04:06AM
not sure about gnome-terminal, but xterm and others use -e flag for this:
xterm --geometry 73x31+100+300 -e watch -n1 inxi -z -F
You can also use the flags to set window name/title/class to do some automatic detection for positioning etc.