NAME
rainbarf - CPU/RAM/battery stats chart bar for tmux (and GNU screen)
VERSION
version 0.9
SYNOPSIS
rainbarf --tmux --width 40 --no-battery
DESCRIPTION
Fancy resource usage charts to put into the tmux
status line. The CPU utilization history
chart is tinted with the following colors to reflect the system memory
allocation:
* green: free memory;
* yellow: active memory;
* blue: inactive memory;
* red: wired memory on *Mac OS X* / *FreeBSD*; "unaccounted" memory on
*Linux*;
* cyan: cached memory on *Linux*, buf on *FreeBSD*.
If available, battery charge is displayed on the right.
Just go to to see some
screenshots.
USAGE
Installation
* Traditional way:
perl Build.PL
./Build test
./Build install
* MacPorts way:
port install rainbarf
* CPAN way:
cpan -i App::rainbarf
* Modern Perl way:
cpanm git://github.com/creaktive/rainbarf.git
Configuration
Add the following line to your ~/.tmux.conf file:
set-option -g status-utf8 on
set -g status-right '#(rainbarf)'
Or, under *GNOME Terminal*:
set-option -g status-utf8 on
set -g status-right '#(rainbarf --rgb)'
Reload the tmux config by running "tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf".
CONFIGURATION FILE
"~/.rainbarf.conf" can be used to persistently store "OPTIONS":
# example configuration file
width=20 # widget width
bolt # fancy charging character
remaining # display remaining battery
rgb # 256-colored palette
"OPTIONS" specified via command line override that values. Configuration
file can be specified via "RAINBARF" environment variable:
RAINBARF=~/.rainbarf.conf rainbarf
OPTIONS
"--help"
This.
"--[no]battery"
Display the battery charge indicator.
"--[no]remaining"
Display the time remaining until the battery is fully charged/empty.
See "CAVEAT".
"--[no]bolt"
Display even fancier battery indicator.
"--[no]bright"
Tricky one. Disabled by default. See "CAVEAT".
"--[no]rgb"
Use the RGB palette instead of the system colors. Also disabled by
default, for the same reasons as above.
"--fg COLOR_NAME"
Force chart foreground color.
"--bg COLOR_NAME"
Force chart background color.
"--[no]loadavg"
Use load average
metric instead of CPU utilization. You might want to set the "--max"
threshold since this is an absolute value and has varying ranges on
different systems.
"--max NUMBER"
Maximum "loadavg" you expect before rescaling the chart. Default is
1.
"--order INDEXES"
Specify the memory usage bar order. The default is "fwaic" ( free,
wired, active, inactive & cached ).
"--[no]tmux"
Force "tmux" colors mode. By default, rainbarf detects automatically
if it is being called from "tmux" or from the interactive shell.
"--screen"
screen(1)
colors mode. Experimental. See "CAVEAT".
"--width NUMBER"
Chart width. Default is 38, so both the chart and the battery
indicator fit the "tmux" status line. Higher values may require
disabling the battery indicator or raising the "status-right-length"
value in ~/.tmux.conf.
CAVEAT
Time remaining
If the "--remaining" option is present but you do not see the time in
your status bar, you may need to increase the value of
"status-right-length" to 48.
Color scheme
If you only see the memory usage bars but no CPU utilization chart,
that's because your terminal's color scheme need an explicit distinction
between foreground and background colors. For instance, "red on red
background" will be displayed as a red block on such terminals. Thus,
you may need the ANSI bright attribute for greater contrast, or maybe
consider switching to the 256-color palette. There are some issues with
that, though:
1. Other color schemes (notably, solarized
) have different meaning for
the ANSI bright attribute. So using it will result in a quite
psychedelic appearance. 256-color pallette, activated by the "--rgb"
flag, is unaffected by that.
2. The older versions of Term::ANSIColor dependency do not recognize
bright/RGB settings, falling back to the default behavior (plain 16
colors). However, the whole Term::ANSIColor is optional, it is only
required to preview the effects of the "OPTIONS" via command line
before actually editing the ~/.tmux.conf. That is, "rainbarf
--bright --tmux" is guaranteed to work despite the outdated
Term::ANSIColor!
Another option is skipping the system colors altogether and use the RGB
palette ("rainbarf --rgb"). This fixes the *issue 1*, but doesn't affect
the *issue 2*. It still looks better, though.
Persistent storage
CPU utilization stats are persistently stored in the ~/.rainbarf.dat
file. Every rainbarf execution will update and rotate that file. Since
"tmux" calls rainbarf periodically (every 15 seconds, by default), the
chart will display CPU utilization for the last ~9.5 minutes (15 * 38).
Thus, several "tmux" instances running simultaneously for the same user
will result in a faster chart scrolling.
screen
Stable "screen" version unfortunately has a broken UTF-8 handling
specifically for the status bar. Thus, I have only tested the rainbarf
with the variant from . My
~/.screenrc contents:
backtick 1 15 15 rainbarf --bright --screen
hardstatus string "%1`"
hardstatus lastline
REFERENCES
* top(1)
is used to get the CPU/RAM stats if no
/proc filesystem is available.
* ioreg(8)
is used to get the battery status on
*Mac OS X*.
* ACPI is used
to get the battery status on *Linux*.
* Battery was a source of
inspiration.
* Spark was another source of
inspiration.
AUTHOR
Stanislaw Pusep
CONTRIBUTORS
* Chris Knadler
* Clemens Hammacher
* Joe Hassick
* Sergey Romanov
* Tom Cammann
* Tuomas Jormola
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Stanislaw Pusep .
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.