It seems I am on a roll today.
Long long ago, very long ago I sent a mail to LUG about the fabulous
jQuery cycle plugin.
And in Dec 2007 I had given a LUG talk in IIT on jQuery.
I am not sure if I will give another LUG talk. Very unlikely.
But I can surely mail.;)
I had to do server monitoring for one of my clients and I ended up
using the sexy conky tool for it.
But I had to do a lot of jugglery to make it work on the web.
First I needed this script to make conky write to a fake X server Xvfb.
-sh-3.2$ cat conky-setup
#!/bin/sh
# This script will not only start conky but also refresh the image
every 5 seconds
# Watch the fun ;)
Xvfb :5 -screen 0 1280x1024x24&
export DISPLAY=:5.0
xsetroot -solid lightslateblue
conky 2>/tmp/f.txt
sleep 3
windowid=`grep 0x /tmp/f.txt|cut -d\( -f2|tr -d \)`
while [ "1" = "1" ];
do
import -window ${windowid} /san1/sysadmin/navigator/conky.png
sleep 3
done
I start this manually with
$./conky-setup&
Or you can put it in ~/.profile. Your choice.
Now the ImageMagick import(1) command dumps the current conky output to a file.
I need to display this on the web with cycle transitions.
Here is the html.
-sh-3.2$ cat conky.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<!-- -->
<head>
<title> Monitoring dashboard for Storkmon </title>
<!-- Active content -->
<!-- ************************************************************************
-->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/tailf.css" type="text/css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery/js/jquery.metadata.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="jquery/js/jquery.cycle.lite.1.0.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript" >
function onBefore() {
$('img').load("/cgi-bin/conky-display.cgi");
}
$(function() {
//setInterval(reloadpage, 4000);
$('#taildiv').cycle({
speed: 500,
before: onBefore
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="taildiv">
<img />
<img />
</div>
</body>
</html>
Wth this beautiful result:
http://lamp.healthsoftusa.com/conky.html
-Girish
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