Randy

Conky inspired system info viewer written in Rust / GTK3

Cheezeburgerz!

Conky was named after the puppet... so this thing is Randy

A man’s gotta eat, Julian.

Goals

Learn a ton

I'm new to Rust (you can tell in the code!), having fun and learning a lot.

Frick Ricky, stay off the CPU

Strive to do things in as little cycles as possible. Not do things as fast as possible (hence to parallel scans of /proc/*).

ps -eo etimes,times,command | grep randy

Linux only

At the moment Randy only really runs on Linux. Running on ther operating systems is not a goal. Note: somone shared a screenshot of Randy running on Windows with WSfL though :D.

Speed tests

• Check out the bench directory/sub-crate for some speed testing
• Build with --features timings to see details about how long things take in Randy

Features

Configurable modules

• Module list:
  • system - system info
  • cpus - all cpus usage stats bar
  • cpu_consumers - top N pids using cpu and their usage
  • mem_consumers - top N pids using mem and their usage
  • filesystem - usage of a given mounted filesystem
• Can order the modules how you wish
• Can enable/disable modules and sub items

UI settings

• color_bar - base color of the usage bars
• color_bar_med - color of the usage bars > 50% < 80%
• color_bar_high - color of the usage bars > 80%
• color_label - color of the "labels"
• color_text - color of all other text
• decoration - hide/show window decorations
• font_family - the CSS-style font family string (font names with spaces must be wrapped in escaped quotes, eg fo_family: "\"Terminus (TTF)\", \"Liberation Mono\", monospace")
• font_size
• mod_top - modulo used to skip frames for getting top data
• mod_fs - modulo used to skip frames for getting filesystem data
• resizable - bool to make the GUI resizable
• skip_taskbar - in case you want to see a Randy item in the taskbar
• timeout - time in seconds to wait between frame updates
• xpos - starting position x
• ypos - starting position y

Building

Optional deps / features

• nvidia: Enable NVIDIA card temp sensing via NVML .so
• sensors: Enable lm-sensors integration

Example:

cargo run --features sensors,nvidia

Required build packages

I have only barely looked into packaging but jhjaggars put some helpful hints for Raspbian and Fedora in here:

• iphands#2
• iphands#1

Example

cargo run --release --no-default-features  # build with lm-sensors and nvml disabled

Running

Randy needs to be pointed at a config Yaml. It will look for the deatult.yml in $PWD/config. Should work ootb if you launch from the root of the Git repo.

If are launching Randy from elsewhere... point it at the config Yaml file of your choosing. Example:

randy /tmp/configs/my_cool_config.yml

Screenshot