Friday Feb 24, 2006

Linux system information app

Posted at 10:50:15 am by hari under My software (274 views)

Some time back, I created a little Linux system information app in Python/Glade. Most system information in Linux can be determined from the command line, but many people aren't very familiar with how to access this information. Suggestions and feedback are welcome. Note that on your particular distribution, permissions may vary, so to obtain some of the information, you might need to run this as root.

Just extract the contents of the archive and run the genna.py file from the command line. Requirements: python, libglade2 and python-glade2.

Download

genna-0.1.tar.gz (4.2 kB)

Screenshot

GEnna Screenshot

11 comments

Comment from: titanium_geek [Visitor] · http://www.creativehedgehog.com

that is pretty darn cool. Wow. I'm impressed.

of course, I don't have a linux box (yet) and so I can't actually try it. (sigh)

Friday Feb 24, 2006 @ 16:39

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

Thanks Titanium_geek.

Saturday Feb 25, 2006 @ 08:03

Comment from: titanium_geek [Visitor] · http://www.creativehedgehog.com

you should put it on freshmeat...

Saturday Feb 25, 2006 @ 09:58

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

I'll certainly do that, once I figure out freshmeat and how to submit content there. Thanks!

Saturday Feb 25, 2006 @ 16:37

Comment from: ray [Visitor] · http://lostaddress.org

I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "genna.py", line 7, in ?
import gobject
ImportError: No module named gobject

I have all the deps loaded, any thoughts?

Sunday Feb 26, 2006 @ 08:27

Comment from: ray [Visitor] · http://lostaddress.org

Ignore me. I had to load up pygtk - it all works perfectly now.

Cool app Hari.

Sunday Feb 26, 2006 @ 08:33

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

Thanks Ray. Yes, I forgot to add python-gtk as a dependency, but I figured python-glade would require it. If you have any suggestions for more info to be added, let me know.

Sunday Feb 26, 2006 @ 09:50

Comment from: ray [Visitor] · http://lostaddress.org

I think it may be worth stating the obvious, that even though it runs under your normal user account, not all info is available unless you run it as root.

Sunday Feb 26, 2006 @ 17:58

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

>> I think it may be worth stating the obvious, that
>> even though it runs under your normal user
>> account, not all info is available unless you run
>> it as root.

I mentioned that in the article.

Sunday Feb 26, 2006 @ 19:51

Comment from: ray [Visitor] · http://lostaddress.org

In that case, it may be worth stating the even more obvious "Ray must improve his reading skills"

Monday Feb 27, 2006 @ 03:04

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

I'm planning to write a small GUI GRUB config tool for the next one.

Monday Feb 27, 2006 @ 08:20

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