Greetings. On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:21:40 +0100 Markus Wichmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using a small accessory application for dwm for a long time, > that I called dwmclock. What it did for the longest time was format the > load averages and the current time into a string, then set that as X11 > root window name (dwm would thus display it in the bar window).
There's dwmstatus: [0] > Today, I decided to change it into something more useful (I know the > flashplayer is stressing my CPU, so I don't need an application to tell > me). Also I thought utilization of the network is a more useful > information than utilization of my CPU, especially in this current time > of traffic shaping and other such nonsense. > > Long story short, I wrote a dwmclock, that also displays the current > default interface's first letter (usually sufficient, as most people > have only at most one network card of each type in their machines), as > well as download and upload speeds. Currently it only works on linux, > though, as it reads the /proc and /sys interfaces (and that also means > it's subject to breakage on kernel upgrade. Sigh.) > > As usual, criticisms and improvement suggestions are welcome. I already > know of one problem: I'm reading the interface statistics, which count > every received byte, even if it's from a broadcast message on a protocol > we don't care about or the like. I have no idea how to only count IP > traffic, however. You can add it to the wikipage above, see [1]. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann [0] http://dwm.suckless.org/dwmstatus/ [1] http://suckless.org/wiki 💻 http://r-36.net 💻 gopher://r-36.net ☺ http://r-36.net/about 🔐 1C3B 7E6F 9805 E5C8 C0BD 1F7F EA21 7AAC 09A9 CB55 🔐 http://r-36.net/about/20h.asc 📧 [email protected]
