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[goingnuts]

[technosaurus]

I downloaded opera mini so I should be able to post pets now

try this
awk '{print $1}' /proc/loadavg

cut can be very difficult to maintain for /proc stuff due to kernel changing the pretty print ... tr -s can help, but I've learned the hard way that awk was designed for these exact situations

love the new tool though, I'd like to check out how hard it would be to allow multiple different images (to handle all of the tracking in one applet & cut down resource usage)
I think I posted all of my /proc hacks in jemimah's vattery thread (to get all sorts of info)... back when I was still trying to use cut also

here is a snippet of c that I use to shift the input parameters
#define shift(i,a) ({ int j=0; while(a[j] != NULL){a[j]=a[j+i];j++;})
it works best with a fixed number of parameters, otherwise you have to do checks.

[goingnuts]

Thanks for the awk-tip! Do not expect pmmon to be bug-free - it seems that one instance running is ok - but more do not work. Think jwm only like to swallow one app. by name(?) - maybe a switch to name the child might work. Rename does not. And app. name is at the moment hard coded in pmmon - I´ll try to improve on that.
Update: Attached version takes appname and refuse to run if no image path is given. Also reduced size to 7K. Made the attached pmabs - a simple volume indicator - now able to run several pmmon and get them swallowed. Right-click mute/unmute - left-click launch xmixer if installed.

[technosaurus]

posting mrxvt + others I forgot?

I was actually hoping that we could somehow loop through the args in c to have multiple images side by side...thus only need 1 instance of the program for monitoring multiple parameters. I may have to dig out the old x11 programming manual I found in a recycling bin.

in jemimah's words this would be a hack on top of an already dirty cludge... found the link to the procinfo stuff though
murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50696

[goingnuts]

[technosaurus]

when apps are started from jwm, they appear to use an extra shell to execute the command (the shell stays running == extra resources) - this code is in command.c {toward the end} I may try to use my program forking (fork, exec, {wait?}) macro to replace it, but concerned if they would get stuck open on shutdown this way ... I would use "system(cmd)" but IIRC it may be a security concern

[goingnuts]

The mrxvt is tremendous! Thanks!

Posted an updated (downgrade) of xfm here - really a nice GUI file and application-manager in only 150K.

Concerning the pmmon I think a system call works fine - have tried to use the fork/exec but with no luck. Been pulling my hair out to try getting a transparent icon - but again with no luck. Thought that info here could give a break through but I am coding like a blind.

[technosaurus]

in an xpm you can set a color to be transparent by leaving its character value null

see percentbar and genhbar in bashbox

[technosaurus]

keep in mind I have only had 1 semester of c 15 years ago, but it seems like multiple applets should be case for a struct
ex. (not using c syntax)

j=0
for i=1 ... argc
if argv[i]="-i"
applet.icon[j]=argv[i+1] //usr/lib this the right way?
applets.cmd[j]=argv[i+2]
add to total width
change height if > existing
j++
...

...
i=0
while true
for i=0 ... j
<draw> applet.*[i]

...beter yet maybe use this xcb based code
http://vincentsanders.blogspot.com/2010/04/xcb-programming-is-hard.html

Edit - I wanted to apologize for the bashbox pet - I didn't test it before posting and the mixnmatch functions had some issues in ash - feel free to tear it apart for the functions though (in /etc/bbfsxns.sh) ... I am in the process of pulling out or rewriting (and simplifying) the desktop apps ... trying to use $DIALOG where possible (so they work in the console OR the desktop), but it either needs to be a wrapper or I need to patch and recompile dialog and Xdialog to use similar functions and probably have a no-op function for non-implemented functions from the sister app

[goingnuts]

technosaurus: You might have a look at my dialogfunctions.

While waiting for a break-through getting icons to show up with background colour as set in the pmmon-app. here is a workaround/different approach: pmfree2 is driven by a script that controls the xpm-icon that pmmon is to show. It requires some coding to create xpm like that on-the-fly but the master-xpm could be made more universal and handle xload, network, audio, battery etc. and you really can set your internal icon-designer free...
An upcoming pmmon5 is under creation - handles 5 icons at once...

[goingnuts]

pmmon5 (16K) is a image projector/application launcer for jwm tray. It shows the 5 xpm-images placed in /tmp/ (p1.xpm, p2.xpm, p3.xpm, p4.xpm and p5.xpm). All 3 mouse buttons can be programmed to act on each image. So use the symlink method (symlink whatever image you want showed to the mentioned xpm-files in /tmp) or use a script to generate the images. Attached an example of the later to replace xload, freememapplet, blinky, asapm and absvolume.
Configure the mouse actions in the pmmon5.sh script. In the pet also static version of aumix and xmixer (on which the volume is programmed to depend on).
Include the following in /root/.jwmrc-tray to have jwm swallow the application:

[wanderer]

don't know what i am doing wrong

tried to open initrd.gz with cpio

but this did not work

works ok on

431 initrd

dpup initrd

any help appreciated

thanks

wanderer

[technosaurus]

@goingnuts - looks pretty good, can't wait to play with it on my puppy box... probably swallowed in a standalone autohide tray.

@wanderer
is the initrd lzma'd or gripped? ... whichever it is you need that + cpio to extract the initial ramdisk. (either zcat or lzmacat...¦...)

[sc0ttman]

goingnuts, pmmon5 looks great... I will try it out as soon as I can...

I would like to use it to replace pmconky (perhaps... I will experiment)

I'm not asking you to do this, I will try myself, but do you think it would be possible to include the following:
- CPU temperature
- kbs up/down

I might use this in a separate tray, like technosaurus, popping out over the normal taskbar, right hand side, something like "Damn Small Linux"...

[goingnuts]

@wanderer: The initrd.gz is lzma despite the extension.
@technosaurus: Thanks - and thank you for the inspiration to this!
@sc0ttman: Thanks . Should be possible - the temp easier that the up/down I think. The function "digit2xpm" in pmmon5.sh takes 3 digits and convert to xpm-digits. Just add a function to make a new UNIT (oC og oF) for the temperature...

Forgot to include the mute script in the pet - just make a script in /usr/bin with the following code: