Command Watch

Plasma 4 Extensions

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Description:

Command Watch is a plasmoid which periodically runs a system command and displays its output. Think of a fortune or your uptime. The possibilities are endless.

Note: this Plasmoid is written for post-4.0.x Plasma versions.
Last changelog:

11 years ago

Fix national characters, patch by Radek Novacek;
Make it compatible with KDE 4.2.

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cyberbat

7 years ago

Really good plasmoid. Works even now on kde-4.9.3

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strungoutfan78

9 years ago

OK I realize this is an old project but I really love this plasmoid and want to install it on my Fedora 14 box. Unfortunately I can't figure out what to do with the tarball provided and the rpm I found while searching with Google has a dependency of kdebase4-runtime < 4.2.60. I'm on 4.5.5. I've dl'd the src.rpm to try and reconfigure it but I don't know what I'm doing. Please is there a way for me to install this? It worked fine a few months ago on my Fedora 13 box.

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frankqn1

11 years ago

Good work, very nice, simple and usable. What do You think about implementing text shadow?

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cmlr

11 years ago

Please let us choose a transparent background.

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Kwilliam

11 years ago

Due to tighter integration of Plasma with KDE, some changes to the CMakeLists.txt file are needed to compile successfully.
1) Delete the line: find_package(Plasma REQUIRED)
2) Replace ${PLASMA_LIBS} with ${KDE4_PLASMA_LIBS}

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bram85

11 years ago

Yes. For my other applet, Flickr On Plasma, I made the following patch againt CMakeLists.txt, which keeps compatibility with <4.2 and >=4.2. This should work the same for this applet.

--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@ project(plasma-flickrop)
# Find the required Libaries
find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
include(KDE4Defaults)
-find_package(Plasma REQUIRED)
+
+if ( ${KDE_VERSION} VERSION_LESS "4.1.90" )
+ find_package(Plasma REQUIRED)
+else ( ${KDE_VERSION} VERSION_LESS "4.1.90" )
+ set( PLASMA_LIBS ${KDE4_PLASMA_LIBS} )
+endif ( ${KDE_VERSION} VERSION_LESS "4.1.90" )

add_definitions (${QT_DEFINITIONS} ${KDE4_DEFINITIONS})
include_directories(

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patkoscsaba

11 years ago

Your pach, included in this version of the plasmoid I just downloaded returns errors on KDE 4.1.3
The if statement looks buggy. After I removed it, it compiles ok.

This is the error:
-- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:6 (if):
if had incorrect arguments: ${KDE_VERSION} VERSION_LESS "4.1.90" (Unknown
arguments specified).


-- Found Plasma: /usr/lib/libplasma.so
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:8 (else):
else An ELSE command was found outside of a proper IF ENDIF structure. Or
its arguments did not match the opening IF command.


CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:10 (endif):
endif An ENDIF command was found outside of a proper IF ENDIF structure.
Or its arguments did not match the opening IF command.


-- Configuring done

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bram85

11 years ago

Strange, it works fine here, and the same checks work for my other plasmoid somewhere else.

What is your CMake version? Mine is version 2.6-patch 2.

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Bolde

11 years ago

This program is excellent! It makes a light weight system monitor with top or with the python script Extraallt.

Extraallt prints the output from specified commands to a text file. Per default it prints the output from hddtemp, lm-sensors and /proc/cpuinfo. Just use it with Command watch and "cat textfile" and set it to update every 3 second.

http://www.cli-apps.org/content/show.php?content=96157

Command watch needs the UTF-patch to print degree symbols, described in the post above by user radnnn
Awk gurus can probably make it print anything.

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Kwilliam

11 years ago

Note: To build successfully on Kubuntu 8.10, the additional packages need to be installed first.
build-essential, cmake, kdelibs5-dev, libplasma-dev

Tip: I suggest installing the "apt-file" program. When cmake complains that it can't find the file such-and-such, use "apt-file search such-and-such" to find the package with the needed file.

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radnnn

11 years ago

Here is the fix for national characters:

replace line 216:
Quote:m_output = m_proc.readAllStandardOutput();

with
Quote:m_output = QString::fromUtf8(m_proc.readAllStandardOutput());


It should work for at least UTF-8 locales...

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devel0per

11 years ago

Ebuid is here - http://sonylaptoptools.sourceforge.net/ebuilds/plasma-commandwatch-0.1.ebuild

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zaardvark

11 years ago

Thanks so much for putting this together; it's almost perfect. I'm wondering how difficult it would be to add a scrollbar to the output display? I'd like to fit about 20 of these in my dashbar, heh...

Thanks again.

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Kwilliam

12 years ago

Thank you very much for such a versatile widget! It took some twiddling, but I've figured out how to make a "top" plasmoid from this.

Refresh every: 5 seconds
Font: Monospace 9
Command: Quote:top -b | head -17 | tail -11 | awk '$9!=0 {printf("%5s %4s %s\n",$1,$9,$12)}'

top -b | head -17 | tail -11 gets the top 10 processes using the most CPU. The awk command filters out processes with 0% CPU, and cuts down the displayed information to just the process name, PID, and %CPU.

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devel0per

11 years ago

Small update of your command:

top -n 1 -b | head -17 | tail -11 | awk '$9!=0 {printf("%5s %4s %5s %s\n",$1,$9,$6,$12)}'

will be a bit better.
* -n option for top is added;
* memory usage information is added;

It's faster and for me - previous variant simply doesn't work, because it's hold output (symptom - screen is not updated).

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Kwilliam

12 years ago

darn refresh. sry for the double post!

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Kwilliam

12 years ago

Thank you very much for such a versatile widget! It took some twiddling, but I've figured out how to make a "top" plasmoid from this.

Refresh every: 5 seconds
Font: Monospace 9
Command: Quote:top -b | head -17 | tail -11 | awk '$9!=0 {printf("%5s %4s %s\n",$1,$9,$12)}'

top -b | head -17 | tail -11 gets the top 10 processes using the most CPU. The awk command filters out processes with 0% CPU, and cuts down the displayed information to just the process name, PID, and %CPU.

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warezmen

12 years ago


i add you plasmoid on my debian repo

deb http://www.amarok2deb.co.cc/debian/ unstable main

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11 years ago

Fix national characters, patch by Radek Novacek;
Make it compatible with KDE 4.2.

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