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Torsmo Tips & Tricks

For those of you that don't know:

What is Torsmo?

Torsmo is a system monitor that sits in the corner of your desktop. It's very simple, customizable and it renders only text on the desktop (and percentagebars if you want it to ;) and the only lib it uses is Xlib.
Torsmo can show various information about your system and it's peripherals, including:

* Kernel version
* Uptime
* System time
* Network interface information
* Memory and swap usage
* Hostname
* Machine, i686 for example
* System name, Linux for example
* Temperatures from i2c-sensors
* Temperature from ACPI
* Battery capacity from ACPI/APM
* Number of processes running or sleeping
* Local mails (unread and all)
* Filesystem stats

Let's post some tricks that we've either come across or figured out about the beloved Torsmo system monitor.

Action shot: http://slum3.tripod.com/images/shot.jpg
(copy and paste the url, tripod doesn't allow hotlinking.)

You can get Torsmo from http://torsmo.sourceforge.net

Here's my ~/.torsmorc file:

Code:

# torsmo configuration



# set to yes if you want tormo to be forked in the background

background no



# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel

#font 5x7

#font 6x10

#font 7x13

#font 8x13

font 9x15

#font *mintsmild.se*

#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*



# Use Xft?

use_xft yes



# Xft font when Xft is enabled

xftfont verdana-11



# Text alpha when using Xft

xftalpha 0.8



# mail spool

mail_spool $MAIL



# Update interval in seconds

update_interval 2.0



# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)

own_window no



# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)

double_buffer yes



# Minimum size of text area

minimum_size 280 5



# Draw shades?

draw_shades no



# Draw outlines?

draw_outline no



# Draw borders around text

draw_borders no



# Stippled borders?

stippled_borders 8



# border margins

border_margin 4



# border width

border_width 1



# Default colors and also border colors

default_color white

default_shade_color black

default_outline_color black



# Text alignment, other possible values are commented

alignment top_left

#alignment top_right

#alignment bottom_left

#alignment bottom_right



# Gap between borders of screen and text

gap_x 12

gap_y 12



# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?

no_buffers yes



# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

uppercase no



# boinc (seti) dir

# seti_dir /opt/seti



# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen



TEXT

${color grey}CPU Usage:$color

  $cpu% ${cpubar 6}

${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax

  $memperc% ${membar 6}

${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax

  $swapperc%  ${swapbar 6}

${color grey}HDD: $color${fs_free /}/${fs_size /}

  $fs_free_perc% ${fs_bar 6 /}

${color grey}Networking:

  Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} k/s${color grey} - Down:$color ${downspeed eth0} k/s

${color grey}Temperatures:

  CPU:$color ${exec .ctof.sh proc}F${color grey} :: MB:$color ${exec .ctof.sh mobo}F${color grey}

${color grey}Juice:

  Vcore:$color ${i2c 1-002d in 0}V

${color grey}CPU Fan:$color ${i2c 1-002d fan 1} rpm

${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime

${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes

$hr

${color grey}Weather :${color}

${execi 1800 .tweather.sh Today}

$hr

${color grey}Tomorrow :${color}

${execi 1800 .tweather.sh Tomorrow} 

$hr

Celcius to Fahrenheit conversion.

My i2c sensors were only outputting Celcius temperatures. Being that I live in the US and the Metric System is like Greek to me, I decided to write a bash script to work with Torsmo to convert those temperatures to Fahrenheit.

Here's my .torsmorc

Code:

${color grey}Temperatures:

  CPU:$color ${exec .ctof.sh proc}F${color grey} :: MB:$color ${exec .ctof.sh mobo}F${color grey}

Here's the .ctof.sh script:

Code:

#!/bin/bash



case $1 in

proc)

i=`cat /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-002d/temp1_input`

echo "$i / 1000 * 1.8 + 32" | bc

;;

mobo)

d=`cat /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-002d/temp2_input`

echo "$d / 1000 * 1.8 + 32" | bc

;;

*) exit;;

esac

You might have to edit the /sys/bus/i2c/devices line to match your configuration, afterwards you can test the script by running:

sh .ctof.sh mobo
sh .ctof.sh proc

Enjoy!