monnerat / compa

Command Output Monitor Panel Applet

Command Output Monitor Panel Applet

Compa is a Mate Panel Applet that can display the standard output of any command on the panel.

In addition it is able to show the output of a different command in its tooltip and launch another command when clicked.

Compa text style can be modified using Text Attribute Markup Language.

Many thanks to Ofer Kashayov for having designed the original version for the now obsolete Gnome 2 desktop.

Build a distribution tarball from a git clone:

1. $ git clone https://github.com/monnerat/compa.git
2. $ cd compa
3. $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
4. $ make dist

Then find the tarball compa-*.tar.gz in the current directory.

Installation from a distribution tarball:

1. Download, gunzip and untar
2. $ cd compa-*
3. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/
4. $ make
5. $ sudo make install
6. Restart Mate
7. Add to panel

Building an rpm package from a distribution tarball:

1. rpmbuild -ta compa-*.tar.gz

Usage example: clock, date, RAM/Disk free and current IP's:

Scripts in example:

echo "<span font=\"mono\" size=\"200%\" color=\"#11FF11\">`date +%H:%M`</span>"

echo "<span font=\"sans\" color=\"#6699FF\">`date +%a`</span>";
echo "<span font=\"sans\" color=\"#6699FF\">`date +%b\ %d`</span>"

echo "<span font=\"courier bold\">RF `free -m | awk '/Mem/ {print $4}'`M</span>";
echo "<span font=\"courier bold\">DF `df -h | awk '/ \/$/ {print $4}'`</span>"

echo "<span font=\"serif\" color=\"#461850\">`/usr/sbin/ifconfig | grep -A 1 '^br0:' | awk '/inet / {print $2}'`</span>";
echo "<span font=\"serif\" color=\"#492950\">`/usr/sbin/ifconfig | grep -A 1 '^virbr0:' | awk '/inet / {print $2}'`</span>"