fsbar4roxdrv-2.0 - an add-on for Fatdog ROX drive icons

[JakeSFR]

I've been using this script since 2013, but recently I pimped it up by adding free/used bar to drive icons, in addition to free space info in tooltips.

Note that it shows the bar only if the drive/partition is mounted and contains an actual filesystem (so no LUKS).

I didn't want to make it an integral part of ROX Drive Icons subsystem in Fatdog, because it's non-essential and uses additional resources (polling).
Also, it was way easier to write it as an external add-on.

But still, it's useful, especially if you're notoriously low on free space, like me.

How to use it? Download the attached archive, extract the script, put it in ~/Startup folder and click it.
To stop it: killall fsbar4roxdrv and then refresh your drives by right-click -> Redraw all icons.

If you don't like the colors, you can customize them directly in the script:

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# user settings

INTERVAL=5		# in seconds
FREECOL='22cc22'	# color for free space (rrggbb)
USEDCOL='cc2222'	# color for used space (rrggbb)
FREEMSG="Free:"		# message for available space in tooltip

# end user settings

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Have fun &
Greetings!

[dr__Dan]

Greetings JakeSFR!
That's very nice, and to my mind more time-effective than the Check Disk Usage utility for general awareness. It seems to me that a toggle for this would be a good addition to the Fatdog64 Event Manager settings.
Is there a reason to poll so often? I can think of a scenario where one might want to watch the space used while writing, but.... Since you have used it for so long, what benefits do you find?

Thanks,
Dan

[JakeSFR]

That's very nice, and to my mind more time-effective than the Check Disk Usage utility for general awareness. It seems to me that a toggle for this would be a good addition to the Fatdog64 Event Manager settings.

Well, if the rest of the guys would like the idea, then why not?

Is there a reason to poll so often? I can think of a scenario where one might want to watch the space used while writing, but.... Since you have used it for so long, what benefits do you find?

That's exactly what I do! I just like to know things in real-time (or close to it) and without a hassle.
For that reason I have Conky on my desktop and additionaly a Gtkdialog terminal widget showing the output of dmesg -w.
I can't count how many times they helped me to notice memory leaks or other misbehaviours in some applications, but also bad sectors in dying drives, so I was able to quickly replace them without any data loss.

Greetings!

[dr__Dan]

Howdy JakeSFR,
not surprising. I further suggest a toggle in the Fatdog64 Event Manager between frequent and infrequent polling. Not that I need to have much concern for the amount of CPU used, but I just do anyway.
Dan

[jamesbond]

@dr__Dan, fsbar4roxdrv will be included as standard in the next release.
You can enable/disable it from the Desktop Service Manager.

We still don't have controls for the polling period etc ... we'll see if Jake is motivated enough to do it

@JakeSFR, thanks for this nifty little tools