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X-Sys README
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What is X-Sys?
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X-Sys is a plugin for X-Chat that allows you to display your current system statistics in
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a channel, private conversation or just in an echo to yourself for testing purposes.
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It is supported on Linux, running on various architectures. Right now x86, ppc, ppc64, sparc,
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sparc64 and alpha are supported, with parisc and ia64 implemented but awaiting testing.
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Who wrote this?
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X-Sys is originally a Mike Shoup creation, from the very first alpha releases to the open-source
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version 1 releases. But then, things stalled. For a few months (more like a year almost)
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Mike didn't work on X-Sys. The last version that had been written was 1.0.5.
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The website was gone, and I (Tony) couldn't find Mike. So, I took over and improved it to my liking.
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It turned out that Mike was still around, though, he contacted me and started development again,
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now called version 2, a complete rewrite. Various 1.9 betas came out that I contributed patches to,
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and starting with version 2.0.0 I'm maintaining xchat-xsys again, this time with Mike's blessing.
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What do I need?
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- X-Chat (regular or Gnome version)
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- Audacious 1.4 or higher
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- D-Bus (for communication with Audacious)
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- a working toolchain (compiler, binutils, etc).
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What if I get errors about u8 not being defined?
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Sorry to hear that, it appears your linux distribution neglected to install essential headers on your
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system. On Debian & Ubuntu, apt-get install pciutils-dev should make it happy.
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========
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COMMANDS
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X-Sys 2 has the following implemented commands:
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/XSYS & /EXSYS - Output current version, either to channel or echoed on screen.
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/CPUINFO & /ECPUINFO - Echoes or says current cpu statistics
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/SYSUPTIME & /ESYSUPTIME - Echoes or says current uptime
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/OSINFO & /EOSINFO - Echoes or says various OS statistics
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/SOUND & /ESOUND - Echoes or says the current sound card, as determined by ALSA
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/NETDATA & /ENETDATA - Echoes or says total amount transferred through a network
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interface. Use like: `/netdata eth0' (where eth0 is a network interface)
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/NETSTREAM & /ENETSTREAM - Echoes or says amount of bandwidth being used.
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Use like: `/netstream eth0' (where eth0 is a network interface)
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/DISKINFO & /EDISKINFO - Echoes or says free space on partitions. The DISK command has a
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few arguments as follows:
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ALL - Displays every partitions
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/mount - Displays free space for that specific mount point
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No arguments just displays total free space
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/MEMINFO & /EMEMINFO - Echoes or says memory information.
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/VIDEO & /EVIDEO - Echoes or says the current video card on the PCI bus
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/ETHER & /EETHER - Echoes or says the current network card on the PCI bus
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/DISTRO & /EDISTRO - Echoes or says which distro you're running
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If this doesn't work for your distro, look for a *-release file or similar in /etc
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E-mail this to chainsaw@gentoo.org
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and the big one:
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/SYSINFO & /ESYSINFO - Complete system information!
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Two output control commands:
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/XSYS2FORMAT , No arguments, it will print just the current formatting string.
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It will take any arguments to it as the formatting string.
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The formatting string can consist of any letter/numbers, and is used to format
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the output. The following special symbols can be used:
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%B : Bold
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%Cnn : Foreground Color, where nn is a number corresponding to a mIRC color
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%Cnn,nn : Foreground,Background Color
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%R : Reverse Foreground/Background Colors
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%O : Reset Color and Format (thats an 'oh' not a 'zero (0)')
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%C : Reset Color
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%U : Underline
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/PLAYING will either print or allow you to set the text for /np.
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The default is now_playing, but you can set this to whatever text you prefer.
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/PERCENTAGES will allow you to set whether to use percentages in plugin output or not.
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Percentages are enabled by default. Use a zero value to disable, and a non-zero value
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to enable. If unsure, use 1.
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/NP & /ENP - Reports what's currently playing in Audacious.
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BUGS
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(none known)
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E-mail me your bug reports at chainsaw@gentoo.org
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Please include the following information:
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- what architecture you are using (amd64, ia64, parisc, ppc, ppc64, sparc, sparc64 or x86)
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- what linux distribution you are using (Gentoo 2007.1, Fedora Core 8, etc)
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- what compiler you have used to compile X-Sys, i.e. gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2)
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- what version of X-Sys you are using
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=======
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Thanks!
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Remember, everything here is:
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(C) 2003, 2004, 2005 by Michael Shoup
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(C) 2005, 2006, 2007 by Tony Vroon
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All Rights Reserved.
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Visit http://dev.gentoo.org/~chainsaw/xsys/ for release information.
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Feel free to e-mail me for feature requests, or see if I'm online on irc.freenode.net
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