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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: 3, Insightful) by Pino P on Thursday January 17 2019, @01:23PM
True, but some Linux distributions use a userspace other than GNU. One example is Alpine Linux, which uses musl and BusyBox instead of glibc, Coreutils, and Bash. However, distributions without GNU usually don't change much of anything around the X Window System environment, which is where this "positioning" takes place. So for a GUI distribution, "X11/Linux" might be a more honest name.
For many, "a mishmash of proprietary and free software" is the only way to avoid buying a different computer, or the only way to buy a laptop computer of a certain size in the first place. I don't see a lot of compact laptops being advertised as compatible with Trisquel or some other fully free distribution of X11/Linux.