G15 on Linux

I just wanted to let people know that I likely won't notice new posts in this thread anymore. Unless I'm missing something, the new forums don't have an option to send you email notifications of new posts, and I don't check them regularly. The only reason I'm here now is that ravedigger also sent me an email (which also happens to be the reason for the new SVN commit that adds an option to hide borders). Email (kbranch at kbranch dot net) is the best way to get ahold of me now, and I'll do my best to address any questions, bug reports, or suggestions promptly.

Oops, I completely forgot to mention what I wanted to about the volume bar. As I understand it, the method I chose should be pretty generic, I expect it to work regardless of what software you're using (OSS vs. ALSA vs Pulse, etc). The problem is that because it's generic, you may not be able to select exactly the mixer you want to track. It works well enough for me, and I hope for most people, but please speak up if it's not good enough. I can look around for a better way to check volume levels.

Thanks for your speedy response, and for your work on this project. I'll give this a try tonight.

Hi,
I just starting using linux today, so sorry for the stupid questions. I'm trying to get g15aiostats to configure, but there is an error in the terminal saying

"configure: error: Unable to find gtop-2.0 library"

I added libgtop2-common_2.28.0-1_all.deb from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/libgtop2-common/download , and then tried to configure g15aiostats again, but the error message is still appearing. Am I missing something?

Thanks in advanced.

Ideas/suggestions:
At the moment I'm mostly using SirReal on Windows XP with my G15, but I'll make the shift to Ubuntu in a week or so. I also use Ray's Winamp Plugin and Logitech's POP3.
The things I like in SirReal: Standard setting with date and time on top, CPU, mem and net just below, and then four optional "windows". This gives a nice overview without cluttering up the LCD (I haven't tried your plugin yet, but the screen shot from the first post suggests the LCD to be quite crowded...). In the four "windows" I've chosen Winamp (don't know whether I'm gonna use amarok or mpd when changing to ubuntu), so some kind of support that way would be appreciated. However, I've noticed there is a plugin just for mpd, so I'm gonna check that out as well. I also have a volume bar on the LCD all the time. And SirReal also marks when the POP3-plugin receives a message. Generally, I really like SirReal's Panel, so getting inspiration from that will be appreciated in my book ;) But as I said, I haven't tried yours yet, so it's a bit difficult for me to give more specific suggestions - but I'm definitely coming back to this forum as soon as I've gotten installed Ubuntu and tested g15aiostats.

Greetings from Jonas, and thanks for putting work into something I'm quite sure I'm gonna use soon ;)

Btw, about the timer in the bottom left - I'm never gonna use it, but maybe a lot of other people are?

Here's my conf:

<br />
[Screen]<br />
	NextScreenButton = "1"<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "Time"<br />
	[Newline]<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "CPU"<br />
		Label = "cpu:"<br />
	[Newline]<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "Net"<br />
		Label = "net:"<br />
		DownloadMax = "120K"<br />
		UploadMax = "35K"<br />
	[Newline]<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "Disk"<br />
		Label = "dsk:"<br />
		Button = "4"<br />
	[Newline]<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "Mem"<br />
		Label = "mem:"<br />
	[Newline]<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "Timer"<br />
		Button1 = "2"<br />
		Button2 = "3"<br />
[Screen]<br />
	NextScreenButton = "1"</p>
<p>	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "Sensor"<br />
		SensorType = "Fan"<br />
		FontSize = "Medium"<br />
		StringFormat = "%sens1 RPM"<br />
		StringPosition = "20,8"<br />
	[Newline]<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "Sensor"<br />
		SensorType = "Temperature"<br />
		SensorNumber2 = "1"<br />
		SensorNumber3 = "2"<br />
		SensorDevice4 = "1"<br />
		SensorDevice5 = "2"<br />
		FontSize = "Medium"<br />
		StringPosition = "70,8"<br />
		StringFormat = "%sens1 %sens2 %sens3 %sens4 %sens5"<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "LoadAvg"<br />
		FontSize = "Medium"<br />
		StringPosition = "45,15"<br />
		StringFormat = "%1m %5m %10m"</p>
<p>	[Newline]<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "Uptime"<br />
		FontSize = "Large"<br />
		StringPosition = "20,0"<br />
		StringFormat = "%dg %Hsa %Md %Ss"<br />
	[Newline]<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "DiskSpace"<br />
		Device = "/dev/sda1"<br />
		Height = "5"<br />
		Width = "30"<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "DiskSpace"<br />
		Device = "/dev/sda2"<br />
		Height = "5"<br />
		Width = "30"<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "DiskSpace"<br />
		Device = "/dev/sdb1"<br />
		Height = "5"<br />
		Width = "30"<br />
	[Newline]<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "DiskSpace"<br />
		Device = "/dev/sdc1"<br />
		Height = "5"<br />
		Width = "30"<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "DiskSpace"<br />
		Device = "/dev/sdc2"<br />
		Height = "5"<br />
		Width = "30"<br />
	[Bar]<br />
		Type = "DiskSpace"<br />
		Device = "/dev/sdc3"<br />
		Height = "5"<br />
		Width = "30"	

Ah, right, that should have occurred to me. Yeah, the old config file probably just gives you a blank screen now, most everything was hard coded before. There should be enough in the current version of the config format to pretty easily maintain backwards compatibility for the future, but I'll be sure to pay attention to that next time.

A few days turned into a couple weeks, but I've finally got a new release ready. The default configuration will look almost identical to the last release, but I've completely redesigned how things work internally, added support for multiple virtual screens, and added a few new bar types. Almost every aspect of the display can now be set in the config file. You can manually set every detail to exactly how you like it, give it some vague information about what you want on the screen and let the plugin handle the details, or anything in between. I think I spent more time documenting this release than I spent actually coding the last one, there are a ton of options (all explained in detail in the new man page). There are now also 'install' and 'uninstall' make targets.

I've done a fair amount of testing, but I'm sure I missed some potential problems since the new auto layout feature allows for an almost infinite number of possibilities. Just let me know if you encounter a bug.

The new bar types include temperature/fan sensors, system uptime, load average, and filesystem usage. More are coming, but the bulk of my time on this release was spent on the new config system.

lm_sensors has also been added to the list of dependencies.

Download link.

Here some ideas:

* Load average and Uptime
* Disk Usage -it'd be cool if it can show different partitions-
* Swap Usage
* Maybe some integration with other GNU/Linux applications, like Firefox,Kopete - or web services like MSN, Twitter or Last.FM
* Terminal
* Top Usage
* Fan & Power Information (can be done with sensors)
* Maybe integration with KDE Notifier.
* Ability to show Processes and kill them. (LCD Miscellany feature)
* Ability to find and kill frozen applications. (SirReal feature)
* POP3 Monitor (SirReal)

I think LCD Miscellany on Windows can give us much more ideas, it was a real good plugin. (I can barely remember its features anyway :/ ) If you want to just add stats, not like SirReals, so Load/Uptime/Swap/Top and Fan/Power information would be cool. Anyway, I'm using g15aiostats full-time now, so its already great =)

Good luck and thanks again,

Thanks for this plugin, its cool =) Maybe you can use all 4 buttons for 4 screens, you can display 4x more information this way, and It can be a real AIO.

Awesome work, thank you! I've created an Arch Linux package for it here:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30191