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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ in the source, so no real location appears in committed files. ## System widgets -Six cards cover the machine itself: +Seven cards cover the machine itself: - **System**: CPU load as a per-core equaliser, the CPU and motherboard model as two rows under the header, RAM used/total, and every temperature (CPU @@ -78,12 +78,14 @@ Six cards cover the machine itself: lines on one chart. See below. - **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. The disks and cache cards read a cache file that a sampler writes; they never call `du` or `statfs` themselves. `statfs` on an unreachable NFS path blocks, and the disks sampler exists so that a dead server costs a stale cache rather than a frozen draw. Sampling is scheduled by conky itself: `conky.text` carries -six `${execi}` entries, even though that block renders nothing under Cairo. +an `${execi}` per sampler, even though that block renders nothing under Cairo. ${execi 900 ~/.config/conky/bin/weather-fetch.sh} ${execi 60 ~/.config/conky/bin/disks-sample.sh} @@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ six `${execi}` entries, even though that block renders nothing under Cairo. ${execi 900 ~/.config/conky/bin/slackware-sample.sh} ${execi 300 ~/.config/conky/bin/calendar-sample.sh} ${execi 1800 ~/.config/conky/bin/immich-fetch.sh} + ${execi 600 ~/.config/conky/bin/updates-sample.sh} The disks sampler runs once a minute; the cache, Slackware and public-IP samplers run every 15, 15 and 30 minutes respectively, because `du -sh @@ -110,6 +113,7 @@ To run a sampler by hand: ./bin/pubip-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. @@ -216,6 +220,21 @@ 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`. + ### Host bindings These hwmon bindings, and the ceilings beside them, are specific to this machine |