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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) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 17 2019, @05:01AM
Generally, yes. Nethogs won't easily work in it though. It needs to run continually so it can average traffic over whatever time period you have it set to refresh at while conky can really only make proper use of one-off scripts unless you write a plugin for it. Looks like you're stuck with spawning a terminal window (with a specific title by preference so you can easily find it with wmctrl) for that.
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