process info in fluxbox menu

[dr_strange]

I've always envied those dynamic menus I see on pekwm screenshots - especially the procinfo part. I thought it would be nice to have something at least similar in fluxbox. So I wrote this very crude hack - it is the very first Python script in my life, so bear with me... Feel free to modify, extend, point out errors etc.

1. Edit your flux menu to contain the following section:

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[submenu] (procinfo) {}
    	[include] (/usr/share/commonbox/fbprocmenu.txt)
[end]

2. Save the following script as fbprocmenu to /usr/bin :

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#!/usr/bin/env python2.2

import sys,os,string
from time import sleep

while 1:
	os.system("ps axh -o pid= -o comm=  > /usr/share/commonbox/fbproc.txt")
	os.system("touch /usr/share/commonbox/fbprocmenu.txt")
	fh = open('/usr/share/commonbox/fbproc.txt', 'r+')
	ft = open('/usr/share/commonbox/fbprocmenu.txt', 'r+')
	ft.write('[begin]  (procinfo) {}\n')
	for line in fh.readlines():
		line = line[:-1]
		line = "     [exec] (kill "+line+") {kill "+line+"}\n"
		ft.write(line)
	ft.write('[end]')	
	fh.close()
	ft.close()
	sleep(5)
	os.system("rm /usr/share/commonbox/fbprocmenu.txt")

Do not forget to make it executable.

3. To run it automatically, put it to your .xinitrc:

exec fbprocmenu &

The result can be seen here.

I am sure it can be improved much, to contain more info etc.

[Anacific]

Oh, I like it. I'll give this a try once get home!

[nokiaxv2]

I was in midstream of typing up an explanation of what I did because I couldn't get it to work for some odd reason.

When i attempted to create the .xinitrc file and add the code to process the script at startup, my xserver would always fail.

So, following all the other instructions and removing the .xinitrc file to get back into fluxbox to start over, I happened to go over the proc info menu and noticed it worked.

So maybe those of you who don't have the .xinitrc file won't need it at all. Good job dr_strange.

[dr_strange]

I was in midstream of typing up an explanation of what I did because I couldn't get it to work for some odd reason.

When i attempted to create the .xinitrc file and add the code to process the script at startup, my xserver would always fail.

So, following all the other instructions and removing the .xinitrc file to get back into fluxbox to start over, I happened to go over the proc info menu and noticed it worked.

So maybe those of you who don't have the .xinitrc file won't need it at all. Good job dr_strange.

They possibly use some *dm to start X.

[dr_strange]

I have rewritten it a little bit, now the script looks like this:

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#!/usr/bin/env python2.2

import sys,os,string
from time import sleep

while 1:
	os.system("ps axh -o pid= -o comm=  -o stat=fbprocmenu> /usr/share/commonbox/fbproc.txt")
	os.system("touch /usr/share/commonbox/fbprocmenu.txt")
	fh = open('/usr/share/commonbox/fbproc.txt', 'r+')
	ft = open('/usr/share/commonbox/fbprocmenu.txt', 'r+')
	ft.write('[begin]  (procinfo) {}\n')
	for line in fh.readlines():
		line = line[:-1]
		line = "[submenu]  "+"("+line+") {}\n    [exec] (kill) {kill -9 "+line+"}\n   [exec]"\
		+" (restart) {kill -18 "+line+"}\n    [exec] (terminate) {kill -15 "+line+"}\n[end]\n"
		ft.write(line)
	ft.write('[end]')	
	fh.close()
	ft.close()
	sleep(5)
	os.system("rm /usr/share/commonbox/fbprocmenu.txt")

And the result looks like this.

[dr_strange]

I know that it would be a better solution to get the process info directly from /proc, and not run ps every 5 seconds; but at the moment I do not know how to gain the info I need.