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SFR
Joined: 26 Oct 2011
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 Posted: Sat 02 Feb 2013, 18:05 Post subject:
 ROX-Desktop drive icons: show free space in tooltips |
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Ok, so today I definitively got tired of necessity to launch Pmount (or go to /mnt, terminal or wherever) every time I want to check free space on my drives.
Anyone tired either?  Here's the "cure":
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
INFO_PATH=/root/.pup_event
while true; do
df -h | grep -vE "/dev/loop|tmpfs|unionfs|shmfs" | grep "/mnt" | sed 's|/dev/|drive_|g' | awk '{print $1"| Size: "$2" Free: "$4}' | \
while read i; do
NAME="${i%%|*}"
SIZE="${i##*|}"
LINE=`grep "<Summary>" "$INFO_PATH/$NAME/AppInfo.xml"`
NEW_LINE="`echo ${LINE%%Size: *}`$SIZE</Summary>"
if [ "$LINE" != "$NEW_LINE" ]; then
sed -i 's|'"$LINE"'|'"$NEW_LINE"'|' "$INFO_PATH/$NAME/AppInfo.xml"
fi
done
sleep 5
done |
This short script updates periodically (5 sec.) tooltips for ROX drive icons, by adding current amount of available space.
I used 'dh -h' which rounds up the size, but it's sufficient to get overall insight.
That's it. Barely tested (only in Slacko-5.4), but so far works fine with internal and external (USB) drives. YMMV, of course.
BTW, if a drive will be unmounted, the tooltip won't be updated anymore (until mounted again) and its recent "Free: ..." value remains there.
This may be considered as a downside, but I don't mind that it's that way (and the code is much more simple).
If one try it and think "nah, I don't like it":
1. Kill the script
2. Delete everything from /root/.pup_event/ dir
3. Restart X
EDIT: Correction in code.
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WARNING: I have noticed that if I copy/paste the code using Opera browser, it (Opera) has unpleasant habit of adding leading and trailing spaces to pasted text.
So if it will happen, make sure that this line:
df -h | grep -vE "/dev/loop|tmpfs|unionfs|shmfs" | grep "/mnt" | sed 's|/dev/|drive_|g' | awk '{print $1"| Size: "$2" Free: "$4}' | \
doesn't contain any extra space after \ or else script won't work.
Enjoy & Greetings!
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vovchik
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Location: Ukraine
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| Posted: Sat 02 Feb 2013, 18:40 Post subject:
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Dear SFR,
What a nice, useful and simple idea. It workes nicely under Lucid, too.
Thanks.
With kind regards,
vovchik
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rhadon
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Sun 03 Feb 2013, 05:02 Post subject:
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Hi SFR,
tried your program, but no success  . I also use Slacko 5.4, with and without save file.
I allways get:
| Code: | | sed: -e expression #1, char 54: unknown option to `s' |
added echo's to see the variables, so I think, it's the last sed command:
| Code: | # ./freespace
NAME=drive_sda5
SIZE= Size: 14G Free: 583M
LINE= <Summary>Filesystem: ext3 Size: 13,9GB</Summary>
NEW_LINE=<Summary>Filesystem: ext3 Size: 14G Free: 583M</Summary>
sed: -e expression #1, char 54: unknown option to `s' |
Any idea?
Rolf
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SFR
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Thanks for the info, Vovchik!
Rhadon, yes! I think I see what went wrong.
It's decimal comma separator in "13,9GB" and I also used comma as a separator in the second 'sed' (I have left my "Country Settings" default - English, i.e. dot as separator).
Ok, I corrected the code, how about now?
Thanks for spotting this, btw.
PS. Rolf, maybe this is also the reason why <spinbutton> doesn't work for you when floating point values are in use..?
Greetings!
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rhadon
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| Posted: Sun 03 Feb 2013, 06:42 Post subject:
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Great! It works fine now. 
And it's much more comfortable than using pmount or partview.
Thanks for sharing,
Rolf
Will test spinbuttons with english country settings soon .
Edit: Yes. Again, your'e right. Spinbutton and bdraw 1.6 are working fine with english country settings. 
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