Sky Status Writer

SSWriter is a “status writer” written in C, licenced under the GNU GPLv3. SSWriter reads informations about your computer (acpi, date, ...) and shows them as you like using a format string.

This tool has been written to be used with Wmii but you can use it how you want.

SSWriter is actually in complete rewriting with a new design. The version 0.4 will be composed of a daemon and several tools to start/read some "monitoring elements". It will be network-usable, will use the concept of profile to load several elements from a configuration file and will implement a lot of new features.

Download

SSWriter-0.3.1.tar.gz — June 2, 2008
SSWriter-0.3.0.1.tar.gz — May 24, 2008
SSWriter-0.3.tar.gz — May 21, 2008
SSWriter-0.2.3.tar.gz — January 29, 2008
SSWriter-0.2.2.tar.gz — January 25, 2008
SSWriter-0.2.1.tar.gz — January 24, 2008
SSWriter-0.2.tar.gz — January 22, 2008

Features

Use a format string.
Charge and state of the battery + warning when the battery is low.
Frequency of the CPU (compatible cpufreq).
Date and time.
State of the numlock key.
Memory usage.
Swap usage.
Activity of the network devices (wireless compatible)
Temperature (using acpi and hardware monitoring).
Inclusion of any file contents
Only raw data are printed
Support of sound mixers (with ALSA)

(What's new.)

Screenshots

Example on my laptop with the command:

sswriter -d "%d/%m/%y - %H:%M" -D eth0 ath0 "Mem: %mMB, Swap:
      %sMB - %n[%q%%] %i kB/s %o kB/s - CPU: %C0MHz (%p0%%) - B1 %b1%% -
      %d"

Example

Here an other example:

sswriter -T 0,1 -D ath0 eth0 ath1 "%(B#WARNING# battery is
      low!%)%(bMem: %mMB Swap: %sMB - %n%(w[%q%%|%rMB]%): %i|%o kB/s -
      CPU: %C0MHz [%p0%%] %T0°C - %B1 %b1%%%)"

Example 2

Documentation

All the documentation is in the README file.

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