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| # 2025-07-12 - OCC Delousing | |
| I switched to my OCC rig a day early to work out some of the nits | |
| ahead of time. | |
| * * * | |
| I wanted some system monitors and screenshots. | |
| # apk add xfce4-cpugraph-plugin | |
| # apk add xfce4-genmon-plugin | |
| # apk add xfce4-screenshooter | |
| Then i performed the following steps: | |
| * Right click the top panel | |
| * Click Panel preferences... | |
| * Click Items | |
| * Click +Add | |
| * Add a Separator, Power Manager Plugin, CPU Graph, and | |
| Generic Monitor | |
| * Re-order them to go right after the Workspace Switcher | |
| * Select Generic Monitor | |
| * Click the wrench button | |
| * At Command, enter: /home/ben/bin/wifi-monitor.sh | |
| * At Period (s), enter: 30.00 | |
| * Click Save | |
| * Click Close | |
| $ cat >bin/wifi-monitor.sh <<'__EOF__' | |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 | awk -F '[()]' '/RX bytes/ { | |
| printf "%s/%s", | |
| substr($2, 1, length($2) - 2), | |
| substr($4, 1, length($4) - 2) | |
| }' | |
| __EOF__ | |
| Every 30 seconds it updates a display of traffic over WIFI, | |
| formatted like so: | |
| 108.8 M /2.8 M | |
| * * * | |
| I wanted a larger font than the default in `st`. Turns out this is | |
| trivial to configure. | |
| $ cat >bin/st.sh <<__EOF__ | |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| FONT='-*-terminus-bold-r-normal-*-22-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' | |
| if [ -z "$1" ] | |
| then | |
| /usr/bin/st -f $FONT | |
| else | |
| /usr/bin/st -f $FONT "$1" | |
| fi | |
| exit 0 | |
| __EOF__ | |
| $ chmod a+rx bin/st.sh | |
| In XFCE, i clicked Applications, Settings, | |
| Default Applications, Utilities, Terminal Emulator, | |
| Other... | |
| At the input i typed: | |
| /home/ben/bin/st.sh "%s" | |
| Then i clicked OK, Close | |
| * * * | |
| I wasn't able to live with ircii, so i installed irssi. | |
| I installed expect and gnu-libiconv because i have scripts | |
| that use those. | |
| * * * | |
| I wanted a ruler at the bottom of my tmux window to facilitate hard | |
| line breaks in OpenBSD ed. I can accomplish this by interactively | |
| entering commands in tmux. However, when i save the same commands | |
| to a file and run them non-interactively, the ruler is displayed | |
| in the top pane instead of the bottom one. I opened a new thread | |
| on linuxquestions.org using the links browser. | |
| tmux display-message goes to wrong pane | |
| tags: occ2025,retrocomputing | |
| # Tags | |
| occ2025 | |
| retrocomputing |