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@@ -68,14 +68,16 @@ Three cards cover the machine itself: - **Cache**: `~/.cache` total and its four largest subdirectories. - **Slackware**: distribution version, package count, kernel, install age, and time since the last `slackpkg` ChangeLog update. See below. -- **Updates**: nvtable's table of tracked packages behind upstream, scrolled - with the mouse wheel. See below. CPU, RAM, temperatures, the GPU, disks, network and the public address used to be cards here. They moved to the performance panel of the quickshell island (`desktop/island/` in the quickshell repo), which also warns from the status pill. The island keeps writing `~/.cache/udt/pubip.txt`. +The updates card, a copy of nvtable's table, moved to the updates page of the +quickshell drawer (`desktop/modules/updates/`), which sorts each pending update +into the action it needs and covers Slackware itself. + The cache card reads a cache file that a sampler writes; it never calls `du` itself. Sampling is scheduled by conky itself: `conky.text` carries a threaded `${texeci}` per sampler, even though that block renders nothing under Cairo. @@ -85,7 +87,6 @@ a threaded `${texeci}` per sampler, even though that block renders nothing under ${texeci 900 ~/.config/conky/bin/slackware-sample.sh} ${texeci 300 ~/.config/conky/bin/calendar-sample.sh} ${texeci 1800 ~/.config/conky/bin/immich-fetch.sh} - ${texeci 600 ~/.config/conky/bin/updates-sample.sh} The cache and Slackware samplers run every 15 minutes, because `du -sh ~/.cache` walks the tree and takes about 100ms warm, which is fine on a slow @@ -100,7 +101,6 @@ To run a sampler by hand: ./bin/cache-sample.sh; echo "exit: $?" ./bin/slackware-sample.sh; echo "exit: $?" ./bin/calendar-sample.sh; echo "exit: $?" - ./bin/updates-sample.sh; echo "exit: $?" All print nothing and exit 0 on success, and all write a temp file and rename it over the target, so the widget never reads a half-written file. @@ -180,21 +180,6 @@ The key sits in a plain file, like the weather key, because the fetch runs unattended from conky: reading it from a GPG-backed store would raise a pinentry whenever the agent's cache has expired. -### Updates - -nvtable's table of tracked packages that need action: where each is -installed, the version its SlackBuild ships and, when that is not it, the -upstream release. The big value is how many installed packages are behind -upstream. Installed versions read red when behind and green when caught up, -a shipped `.info` behind upstream reads as a warning. Rows that do not fit -scroll with the mouse wheel, with a thin scrollbar at the right edge. - -`bin/updates-sample.sh` runs every ten minutes and caches `nvtable -C -E` -in `~/.cache/udt/updates.txt`. It also starts `nvchecker` in the background -at most every 30 minutes, detached so conky never waits on the network; its -results show up on the next sample. `nvtable` is looked up in `~/bin` too, -since conky launched by the compositor lacks the login shell's `PATH`. - ### One colour language across every card Anything with a comfortable range and an uncomfortable one is coloured by the |