Re: FVWM: FvwmTaskBar clock feature suggestion

From: Roeland Moors <roelandmoors_at_telenet.be>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:31:06 +0100

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:31:52AM +0300, George Nephrite Potapov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 09:59:38AM -0800, Kyle Graehl wrote:
>
> > I am setting up an old laptop computer with FVWM for my mother and it
> > works great. In the current unstable there is a ClockFormat option.
> >
> > *FvwmTaskBar: ClockFormat <strftime format>
> >
> > I am not sure if FVWM functions can return values, but I think it
> > would be great to allow something like this:
> >
> > *FvwmTaskBar: ExtendedClockText <some function that gets called at
> > each UpdateInterval>
> >
> > This way I could get my battery level percentage down there by the
> > clock. I'm sure others could find more creative uses for this. I tried
> > to hack this in myself but I don't really understand C and I honestly
> > couldn't see how the current system works. (Goodies.c?)
>
> A better idea would be to make FvwmTaskBar able to swallow arbitrary windows
> like FvwmButtons does. Writing a string into clock looks too "ad hoc" to me.
>
I'm just using FvwmButtons and FvwmScript to display my battery
level. Not really what your asking, but here is the code what I'm
using if you need it.
( the output is something like 'AC 99% 43.0°')

This is a ruby script to get the battery level and the degrees:
------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
online = false
degree = '??'
procent = '??'
status = `acpi -atc`
status.each_line do |line|
    line.chomp!
    online = (line =~ /.*on-line.*/) if line =~ /.*AC Adapter.*/
    if line =~ /.*Thermal.*/
        degree = line.gsub!(/.*,/, '')
        degree.gsub!(/degrees.*/, '')
        degree.strip!
    end
    if line =~ /.*Battery.*/
        procent = line.gsub(/.*ing,/, '')
        procent.gsub!(/, .*/, '')
        procent.strip!
    end
end

if online; print 'AC' else print 'DC' end
print " #{procent}"
puts " #{degree}°"
------------------------------------------------------------------
And here is the FvwmAcpi script:
------------------------------------------------------------------
WindowTitle {FvwmAcpi}
WindowSize 88 23

Init
 Begin
  Set $MainColorset=(GetScriptArgument 1)
  If $MainColorset <> {} Then
  Begin
   ChangeColorset 0 $MainColorset
   ChangeColorset 1 $MainColorset
  End
  Set $tmp = (GetOutput {exec ./.fvwm/scripts/acpi.rb} 1 -1)
  ChangeTitle 1 $tmp
End

PeriodicTasks
 Begin
  If (RemainderOfDiv (GetTime) 30)==0 Then
  Begin
    Set $tmp = (GetOutput {exec ./.fvwm/scripts/acpi.rb} 1 -1)
    ChangeTitle 1 $tmp
  End
End

Widget 1
Property
 Position 0 0
 Size 88 23
 Type ItemDraw
 Flags NoReliefString
 Title {}
Main
 Case message of
  SingleClic :
  Begin
  End
End
------------------------------------------------------------------


-- 
Roeland
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Received on Mon Dec 27 2004 - 03:25:28 GMT

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