Tint2 - mini HW monitor in systray

Userland Tint2 Panels
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New addition to tint2 panel is mini HW monitor in systray. Disabled by default. You can enable it from Settings Menu win+s → Tint2 panels …

There are 5 monitors: CPU, Ram, Swap, Network and Disk IO - all can be enabled/disabled from menu.

Left click action on monitor will run Lxtask.

phwmon
phwmon1600×900 234 KB

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This is great! Very useful! Thank you for the this new feature!

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Could someone kindly show me where does Mabox persist the config change for HW monitor?

I used this nice GUI to configure all tint2 to the way I like. Now I am building Ansible to automate these changes for other computers.

I found all the config changes for tint2 gets persisted into the ~/.config/tint2/xyz.tint2rc except mini HW monitor change.

thank you in advance.
Cheers!

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This is script called phwmon.py. It’s part of mabox-tools.

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Phwmon.py is just single file script and does not store its settings anywhere. In Mabox it is “encapsulated” with bash scripts.
The state of every single “monitor” is written to ~/.config/mabox/mabox.conf

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napcok,
Thank you very much for quick response. phwmon_monitor is the property holds the boolean value.

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napcok@mabox ~ $ grep phwmon ~/.config/mabox/mabox.conf
phwmon_monitor=true
phwmon_cpu=true
phwmon_mem=true
phwmon_swap=false
phwmon_net=true
phwmon_io=false

:wink:

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thank you so much for this, it’s a very useful feature :sparkles:

is there any way to customize it with different colors?

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Hi @taito,
Very good idea :slight_smile: At the moment it is not so easy - probably best way could be by copying script to `~/bin/’ and by editing it there.

cp /usr/bin/phwmon.py ~/bin/

But I will try to add easy way to select colors for monitors to “tint2 dynamic menu” in comming days.

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@taito
You can now (after today small update and logout) change colors in ~/.config/mabox/mabox.conf

I use ColorMenu for that :wink:

I’m working to make this configurable from tint2 dynamic menu but not ready yet.

PHWMON_COLORS
PHWMON_COLORS1600×900 184 KB

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Nice! :smile:

Question, I see an --io_scale parameter in phwmon.py defaulting to 100MB/s; how can we pass a custom value at run-time? My disk I/O has only ever peaked at about 20% of the panel size (old SATA platter drive = hardware throughput of ~20MB/s.) Users with 500MB/s SSD’s may also want to tweak this.

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Phwmon is managed by mabox-obstart script, so best way to customize it would be to copy it to ~/bin

cp /usr/bin/mabox-obstart ~/bin/

and edit there to your needs… (phwmon.py is in line 77)
Something like adding:

--io_scale=40

should do the trick.

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