Hi,

Recently I came across a post on how to display CPU load in the Tint2 panel using python-psutil. As it’s a really simple and flexible solution, I thought I could add some more info to the executor:

The script and howto available on my Tint2 executors collection.

Looks well here:

You mean this area?

Or you can waste some time on turning blocks with my mouse

Recently I came across a Radeon graphics related issue: it turns out that the xbacklight brightness-related commands do not work with it. After a short research, I found the light-git (AUR) package, which seems to work as well on Intel as on Radeon card. I added light-git as an optional obhud dependency. If found, light will be used instead of xbacklight to increase/decrease the brightness level.

Also several bug fixes have been added to the obhud package.

See the project site for more info.

@joekamprad I’m on the very same version, and it behaves differently than previous versions did: hp-setup started showing GUI again.

Wooohooo!

[Edit] Let’s see…

[Edit #2] Yes, it does!

Are you sure Windows is necessary? I came across this video: How to update a Toshiba Satellite BIOS by CD. Personally I updated BIOS in my Asus twice, having never ever Windows installed. All I needed was a flash disk drive.

@polomoto I haven’t given a try to any Steam Play game except the DOOM demo so far. I only played The Witcher 2, and launched Star conflict - both prepared for Linux, and they work well. I need to download some more Windows games to learn if Steam Play actually works or not.

@polomoto Well, I installed llvm-lib, lib32-llvm-lib and mesa from Testing, and it changed nothing. I might have missed something, anyway.

@PoLoMoTo llvm-libs have just got to Arch Testing.

It seems the TopIcons project has been abandoned. If it comes to me, I almost stopped using GNOME, and the tray was one of reasons. My current Openbox setup contains all I got used to in GNOME before they screwed it up.

Just to clarify:

@calebq42 said in Steam Play Beta:

steamplay doesn’t work with bumblebee at all

If I understand well, we should not understand Steam Play as a certain piece of software, which works or does not work inside the Steam platform. This is just the possibility to:

(…) purchase your games once and play anywhere. Whether you have purchased your Steam Play enabled game on a Mac or PC (both Windows and Linux), you will be able to play on the other platform free of charge.

The service described above uses Proton, which is a part of Steam for Linux in Beta version. Depending on if we start steam-runtime or steam-native, the version in use may come either from Valve directly, or from repos (AUR in this case).

Just thinking aloud. Correct me if I’m wrong.

@polomoto said in Steam Play Beta:

I believe that depends on what the game uses. AFAIK OpenGL games will run fine

Judging from lists like this one, you’re probably right.

@calebq42 said in Steam Play Beta:

steamplay doesn’t work with bumblebee at all.

Dunno how to check is Steam Play works. However, disabling Bumblebee and starting the machine with Nvidia still enabled changes nothing. Doom demo (Windows) still doesn’t start. The Witcher 2 (Linux) works as it did. Maybe during the weekend I’ll try and download some more Windows-only games to test.

@polomoto In my case it’s just art for art. I doubt if buying The Witcher 3 makes sense at all. The Witcher 2 in 1920 x 1080 on my GeForce 930M does not exceed 18 FPS. To see more than 40, I must set 1024 x 576, which looks pitifully. :/

@polomoto With nothing better to do, I also checked at least once a day. :)

@polomoto said in Steam Play Beta:

Just hoping LLVM solves the issue on my end

@piotr said in reflector-antergos:

Possibly the authentication issue only appears in Openbox. I’ll check GNOME later.

With GNOME it doesn’t seem to work well, too. Authentication window appears, but the service seems to be started, but not enabled. Furthermore: even if it worked well, there’s more to do than just turning the service on / off, and a config file + remirror-gui would still have enough work to do.

@joekamprad said in reflector-antergos:

systemd-manager-gui

I tested on my office machine, and all the options you named in the sample above seem to work well (however, replacing - with -- in the example may save another testers 30 seconds of life).

@manuel said in reflector-antergos:

So this gives you an impression of the current GUI status. It has no bells and whistles, and it is made using the yad package.

I didn’t notice the screenshots yesterday, sorry. I hate coding GUI, too. The most boring part of programming. But actually there’s no need for fireworks, just simple windows which do the job, and you’ve already made them.

However, people coming from Windows recently will still have to replace the mirrorlist file manually. I don’t expect them to know what the hell mirros are, and things like this effectively discourage them from staying on Linux. This leads us to what @joekamprad said:

If it can still run as a systemd service, the most easy way is to run it as this automatic.

Running the script as a systemd service with arguments based on user locales by default would be the best solution IMO.

And handled with systemd-manager-gui

Note: the systemd-manager GUI does not work for me on Antergos Openbox:

systemd-manager: bluetooth.service could not be enabled: "Interactive authentication required."

Possibly the authentication issue only appears in Openbox. I’ll check GNOME later.

@manuel Sure, the situation is different when you need to care of other repositories.