About

xstatbar is a simple system monitor that shows various stats in an X window that's immovable and not part of your tab-order. I built it to go with tiling window managers like scrotwm and xmonad where you can configure a small region of the screen as “off-limits” for windows.

Repositories
Personal (master)
GitHub
BitBucket

Support
Doc's (below)
Bug/Issue Tracker

Ports
OpenBSD

On the Web
freshmeat
ohloh

Features

The stats shown are:

CPU graph for each CPU/core, showing the time spent in each state (user, nice, system, interrupt, idle) for the last 60 seconds.
Current percentage of time in each CPU state.
Memory graph showing amount of memory active, allocated, and free for the last 60 seconds.
The current amount of memory active, allocated, and free, as well as swap usage (if any swap is used).
The number of active and total processes
Battery info, including percent charge remaining and estimated time remaining.
Volume, for both left and right outputs.
Date and time.

News

04 August 2010: Version 0.5 Released: The new version adds a new '-t' and '-T' switches to specify the time format. See the man page for details.
12 May 2010: Bug-Fix for 0.4: Verion 0.4p0 has been released, fixing a bug on single-core 32-bit machines that caused CPU information to be skewed.
10 February 2010: Version 0.4 Released: Version 0.4 has been released. Cleaned up the collection and reporting of the audio stats. Added reporting of the number of processes. Swap usage is now only reported if there is any swap space being used.
2 December 2009: Version 0.3 Released: Version 0.3 has now been released. Updates include smaller graphs, cleaner code, and the ability to specify the font used for text. Can also vary the width of the display.
1 November 2009: Version 0.2 Released: Version 0.2 has now been released. Updates include reporting of battery status with estimate of time remaning, volume info, and for multicore/multiprocessor systems, a display for each CPU as opposed to the previous combined display.

Documentation

All documentation is located in the provided man page, which can be viewed online here: xstatbar(1).

Screenshots

Obligatory. Click each to embiggen.

Just the bar.
In a full X display.

Download & Installation

The current version of xstatbar can be downloaded here: xstatbar-0.5.tgz.
Previous versions can be found here: files/.
You can clone / browse my Mercurial repository here:

   $ hg clone http://hg.ryanflannery.net/xstatbar            (mirrors: GitHub / BitBucket)

Build Dependencies:

None

Runtime Dependencies:

None

Building & Installing

The following should suffice:

         $ make install

By default, xstatbar and its man page are installed under /usr/local/{bin,man}. If you don't like this, edit the relevant variables in the Makefile to your liking first.

Uninstallation

Simply remove the xstatbar binary and man page, which are installed by default as

/usr/local/bin/xstatbar
/usr/local/man/man1/xstatbar.1

Roadmap (Future Work)

Long term goals (i.e. not for a while!):

Add command line switches to customize display further.
Add reporting/display for network interfaces & pf.
Add reporting/display for drive activity.