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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.
       
 (HTM) tmux display-message goes to wrong pane
       
       tags: occ2025,retrocomputing
       
       # Tags
       
 (DIR) occ2025
 (DIR) retrocomputing