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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 cubancigar11 on Thursday January 17 2019, @03:10AM (2 children)
You might be interested in xosview. There is a classic version.
Also, automatic window positioning can be achieved by fvwm.
My person fvwm config file does all these actually, but it has been called extremely ugly to look at, so... :) It was derived from Tavis Ormandy's config (http://taviso.decsystem.org/img/screenshot.png https://github.com/zy/zy-fvwm/blob/master/fvwmrc/taviso.fvwm2rc). [github.com] Just FYI...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 17 2019, @03:24AM (1 child)
It looks interesting. I tried it and couldn't get the option to show the temperature to work though. Even trying the option in the docs didn't work: http://xosview.sourceforge.net/documentation.html [sourceforge.net]
Probably my fault though. I will take a deeper look later, thanks.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday January 17 2019, @06:39AM
Oh yeah. There are two forks now, I use the classic one http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/xosview/ [pogo.org.uk] but default installation point to the new version 2.