Re: [STUMP] Monitor long running tasks in Stumpwm

[David Bjergaard]

Hi Stefan,

Sorry for the spam, but rather than putting your module on the wiki page
I linked below, put it in the main page here:
https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/wiki/Modules

This will get more visibility in the long run.

    Dave

David Bjergaard <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> The "new" way of getting the word out is to write a module as a
> quicklisp's quickproject package and then advertise a link to it.  Users
> can then obtain their module however you distribute it, and load it
> using (load-module "module-name") in their stumpwmrc. There are lots of
> examples of modules that define new mode-line format strings in the
> contrib repo: https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm-contrib 
>
> I need to write up a tutorial for writing new modules.  The general
> pattern is (quasi-pseudo code):
> (ql:quickload "quickproject")
> (quickproject:make-project "~/path/to/project") 
> ;; hack on files in project.lisp 
>
> If the project lives in "/path/to/contrib/util/monitor" then you should
> be able to (load-module "monitor") if not, you will have to add the
> location of your module to the "load-path"
>
> I've created a wiki page on the contrib repo that you can use to
> advertise your module:
> https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm-contrib/wiki/User-Contributed-Modules
>
> Include in your docs instructions for setting up and using the module
> (don't use other modules as examples, most of them don't ship with any
> information, though there are exceptions).
>
> Also, emailing the list is another great way to advertise new modules.  
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Dave
>
> Stefan Reichör <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I often have longer running tasks and I want to see their state. So I
>> decided to put this state in the Stumpwm modeline.
>>
>> Attached is my result.
>>
>> The header of the script describes how to use it.
>> It is a python script that calculates the modeline information string.
>>
>> The script can also be used to show a message in the modeline for a
>> given number of seconds.
>>
>> I use this script for some days now and I really like it.
>> I guess it will be useful for some other stumpwm users as well. Is there
>> a contrib directory in the stumpwm git tree where this script could be 
>> stored?
>>
>> Stefan.
>>
>>
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