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
<https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6581011>

tags: occ2025,retrocomputing

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