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Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by TuringNYC »

carokann wrote: post #53

Neat. For people looking at alternatives for configurable dashboards i suggest sampler[0]. It has a weird license but free for personal use. You can report any output of a terminal command with a custom time rate. E.g. you can SSH and pipe HTOP of a remote system, query your local DB and do a timeseries etc. all in one place. [0]: https://github.com/sqshq/sampler

These are all great, but I'm curious if anyone can suggest browser alternatives (I've looked before w/o success) -- It would be awesome to have something like this open up on the home browser tab. Any suggestions?

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by Jakob »

rpmisms wrote: post #59

Why does everyone feature a world clock in their information dashboards? Yes, it's a handy feature to have, and yes, it's easy to build, but very few people actually use them.

IT projects be it open source or closed source often span the US, Asia and Europe.

After a while you memorize the time zone differences. But to be sure and take daylight savings in account world clocks are not bad.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by MichaelApproved »

dspillett wrote: post #51
giancarlostoro wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is awful and fundamentally flawed. If it's on my device, I can save it. Edit: Come to think of it, if it's on my device, it's already saved in some way, shape and form. Clearly nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue Google. What Google should of done is offered to advertise that an image is available to purchase...

> awful and fundamentally flawed Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense. And even when it seems to from your perspective, the way others interpret it does not. > nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue Technical people can be arseholes too you know. Many patent trolls are technical people, not just legal eagles, for instance.

> Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense.

This isn't about the law. It's unclear if the law would require something like this or not. Google decided not to find out by settling. The settlement terms were up to the two companies to decide and were not mandated by laws.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by sannee »

deadbunny wrote: post #18

Only takes x11 color names and not hex? wtf.

Yeah, this makes it unusable on my terminal because I have a custom color scheme.

The background of the borders matches my terminal while I can't get the background of the widgets to match because of this.

EDIT: Hah, specifying "transparent" makes it work

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by graedus »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #47
UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, Firefox on linux can't zoom the image. Right-click 'View Image' does provide a standard zoomable image, but why make me work to see if your product is of use/benefit to me?

I am on Linux on Firefox and I can zoom... Ctrl + scrollwheel. Or am I missing something?

I've always understood user-scalable="no" to apply only to mobile/touch devices and their pinch-to-zoom functionality. I can't remember an instance where Ctrl + scrollwheel and Ctrl + -/+/0 didn't work on desktop browsers.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by senorprogrammer »

buckminster wrote: post #24

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

Part of the site's default template. Bug #47 in the wtfdocs repo has been opened for this.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by cptnapalm »

I've been wanting something sort of like this for my login screen. Little box for the login, of course and a whole bunch of scary-to-everyone-but-me looking output, like hollywood (https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood). +1 if I could use the terminal emulator of my choice so cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term) could make it look like the screen is about to melt.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by senorprogrammer »

rpmisms wrote: post #59

Why does everyone feature a world clock in their information dashboards? Yes, it's a handy feature to have, and yes, it's easy to build, but very few people actually use them.

It was added because I have co-workers in five different timezones and servers that use UTC. It's handy to have that info at a glance.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by senorprogrammer »

maweki wrote: post #16

This looks pretty nice but without secret management it's not really that useful. Without that you can't share your configs or have your config in your dotfiles-repository. That makes it really not that portable.

If you have thoughts on this, I'd love to hear your use-case. Issue #517 is specifically about this topic.
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