rainbarf - CPU/RAM/battery stats chart bar for tmux (and GNU screen)
version 1.3
rainbarf --tmux --width 40 --no-battery
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.
magenta: used swap memory.
If available, battery charge is displayed on the right.
Just go to https://github.com/creaktive/rainbarf to see some screenshots.
Traditional way:
perl Build.PL ./Build test ./Build install
Homebrew way:
brew install rainbarf
MacPorts way:
port install rainbarf
CPAN way:
cpan -i App::rainbarf
Modern Perl way:
cpanm git://github.com/creaktive/rainbarf.git
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.
tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
~/.rainbarf.conf can be used to persistently store "OPTIONS":
~/.rainbarf.conf
# 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=~/.rainbarf.conf rainbarf
--help
This.
--[no]battery
Display the battery charge indicator. Enabled by default.
--[no]remaining
Display the time remaining until the battery is fully charged/empty. See "CAVEAT". Disabled by default.
--[no]bolt
Display even fancier battery indicator. Disabled by default.
--[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. Disabled by default.
--max
--[no]swap
Display the swap usage. Used swap amount is added to the total amount, but the free swap amount is not! Disabled by default.
--max NUMBER
Maximum loadavg you expect before rescaling the chart. Default is 1.
loadavg
--order INDEXES
Specify the memory usage bar order. The default is fwaic ( free, wired, active, inactive & cached ).
fwaic
--[no]tmux
Force tmux colors mode. By default, rainbarf detects automatically if it is being called from tmux or from the interactive shell.
tmux
--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.
status-right-length
--datfile FILENAME
Specify the file to log CPU stats to. Default: $HOME/.rainbarf.dat
--skip NUMBER
Do not write CPU stats if file already exists and is newer than this many seconds. Useful if you refresh tmux status quite frequently.
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.
--remaining
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:
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.
--rgb
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!
rainbarf --bright --tmux
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.
rainbarf --rgb
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.
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 git://git.savannah.gnu.org/screen.git. My ~/.screenrc contents:
screen
backtick 1 15 15 rainbarf --bright --screen hardstatus string "%1`" hardstatus lastline
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.
Stanislaw Pusep <stas@sysd.org>
Chris Knadler
Clemens Hammacher
H.Merijn Brand
Henrik Hodne
Joe Hassick
Josh Matthews
Sergey Romanov
Tom Cammann
Tuomas Jormola
This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Stanislaw Pusep <stas@sysd.org>.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install App::rainbarf, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm App::rainbarf
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install App::rainbarf
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.