This page is about tiny hardware tools:   wmalms   xhkeys   wmxkb    

My other doftware for Linux   ifrac   itetris  sadp , and different:  PalmOS, J2ME, Symbian



WMALMS - WM Another LM_Sensors applet


Preview wmalms

wmalms monitors  data obtained from a sensor chip: temperature, fan speed, voltage.

It can be used as a dockable/swallowed applet with Window Maker, BlackBox and clones (incl. FluxBox), or any window manager that supports swallowing, including gnome, kde(kpanel)-1, fvwm and clones. Alternatively, you can run wmalms as a normal window with any window manager

wmalms is designed to suit any hardware supported by lm_sensors. It provides a wide range of customized features, including window appearance,  order and representation of sensor data, refresh frequency, alarm mode, etc.

I started developing wmalms, after I tried several other  sensor monitors, and neither worked for me. If you have similar problems (but not only if ...)  check out this one ...

Snapshots above show sample wmalms appearance: window maker, transparent background, centigrade temperature scale,  w83782d sensor chip.

See  wmalms online manual  (included with any wmalms distribution)  for more information, installation hints, etc.
 
For change log click the following link:  wmalms_CHANGES.txt

Download wmalms:
 
Source:
  tarball (72K) wmalms-1.1.1.tar.gz
  RPM (75K) wmalms-1.1.1-1.src.rpm
     
Binary:
  RPM (37K) wmalms-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm




XHKEYS - a tool for your special keyboard


The following is just a copy from the manual. You can read  manual online The manual is included with any distribution.

While I was building my new computer,  I purchased "Turbo Media keyboard" (KB9810R): this one was really cheap, and a lot of extra keys looked to be useful. It came with a software for a dumb "operating system", but given that I use Linux for most of the time, those keys remained unused ... until recently.

xhkeys is designed to suit any keyboard  that has some extra keys that otherwise make no use with X:   "Menu" key  on a  105 key keyboard,  extra keys on some keyboard models, or laptops.

The application allows to assign a particular action to any key or key combination (key and modifiers).  An action can be of one of the following types:

The major new features of xhkeys-2:

For recent changes see  xhkeys change log.

Download xhkeys:

Source:
  Tarball (132K) xhkeys-2.2.1.tar.gz
  RPM (136K) xhkeys-2.2.1-1.src.rpm
 
Binary:
  RedHat 7.1+ (84K) xhkeys-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm


Download old version (much smaller in size but lacks plugins and osd:)
 
Source:
  Tarball (56K) xhkeys-1.0.2.tar.gz
  RPM (59K) xhkeys-1.0.2-1.src.rpm
 
Binary:
  RedHat 6.2 (38K) xhkeys-1.0.2-1.i386.rh62.rpm

RedHat 7.1+ (38K)
xhkeys-1.0.2-1.i386.rh71.rpm




WMXKB - dockable/swallowed XKB groups indicator and switch

wmxkb preview

wmxkb showns and controls XKB groups (XFree86 key maps).  It can be used as a dockable/swallowed applet with Window Maker, BlackBox and clones (incl. FluxBox), or any window manager that supports swallowing, including gnome-1, kde(kpanel)-1, afterstep, fvwm and clones. Alternatively, you can run wmxkb as a normal window with any window manager.

Features:

More details in the manual .  The manual is included with any distribution.

For wmxkb change log  click the link below:  wmxkb_CHANGES.txt


Download wmxkb:
 
Source:
  Tarball (192K)  wmxkb-1.2.2.tar.gz
  RPM (195K) wmxkb-1.2.2-1.src.rpm
 
Binary:
  Tarball (28K) wmxkb-1.2.2_bin.tar.gz

RPM 4 (79K) wmxkb-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm







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