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.

2025-07-12 - OCC Delousing

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