On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 12:07, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:41:59PM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > One of my favourite accessory programs for X is 'xbattbar' which puts a 3px > > wide line all along one side of your X screen with part of it red and part > > of it blue to indicate how much battery remains. Obviously there are many > > other battery indicators, and it's also obvious that this one has fallen out > > of favour: the original author vanished years ago (last updates circa 2010) > > and now it's no longer supported in Debian because the maintainer there has > > evidently lost interest. I'm not sure it was ever supported as a package in > > Fedora. > > > > > > By some judicious hacking of both the C and Python components from the most > > recent Debian source package, I've convinced it to build on Fedora 31. I'm > > not particularly happy with this solution as I'm well aware of my complete > > lack of C knowledge and only basic Python skills. What I'd like to do is to > > re-implement this idea in pure Python with a more flexible vision. > > 'xbattbar' already allows you to use an accessory script (a couple are > > provided, in Python) to feed values to xbattbar. So I was thinking of > > re-implementing it without the idea that it's just for batteries, but could > > show you hard drive usage or network throughput (although sample rate > > becomes an issue then: xbattbar allows adjustment of sample rate, but by > > default it's every 5 or 10 seconds). > > > > > > I think this is a good idea, but my limited Python experience barely extends > > beyond basic CLI and administrative scripts. So the questions for all of > > you are, has someone already done this, and if not, where do I start on > > figuring out how to draw a bar on an X screen without a window around it? > > I think the xpymon project could be a good starting point. > > https://github.com/h-ohsaki/xpymon/blob/master/xpymon > > It unfortunately uses x11util and perlcompat python modules that don't > appear to be commonly packaged, but you could probably copy the required > functions from those modules to use as needed.
You're right - that's an excellent starting point. I found, and was hoping to use, python-xlib: https://github.com/python-xlib/python-xlib/tree/master/examples . But this is a more complete example. I'd definitely like to excise the perlcompat ... Anyway, between the two I might actually get somewhere with this idea. Thanks! -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
