Enhancement: Add an entry to each category to run an external command

[fedkad]

Is it technically possible to add a new feature like this?

Add an entry for each category (by category I mean the Processors, Memory, Storage, Network, and Sensors) menu where the user will be able to give a Title (for the menu item to be added, preferably at the bottom of the relevant category's menu) and a command. When the user moves the mouse over that menu item, Astra Monitor will run the user-specified external command, capture its output, make necessary truncation if the output is too long or wide, and display it as a pop-up window. That is more or less similar to what happens when I hover the mouse over the CPU name at the top of the Processors menu and a pop-up window is displayed with the contents of the lscpu command's output.

Standard error of the command may be captured for error and warning logging purposes. Actually, I don't know where Astra Monitor logs the errors, but I presume it is syslog.

The external command should be able to run and terminate normally (with 0 exit) quickly, say in less than half of the refresh time (Update frequency in Astra Monitor terminology) and if so, Astra Monitor should call it once per refresh time; otherwise Astra Monitor should kill it and stop calling it again until the next time the user hovers the mouse over that menu item.

I am planning to use this feature for monitoring the status of some GUI processes, etc.

[ljuzig]

This is somewhat similar to what's being asked in #34. I have conducted some preliminary tests on a way to allow the user to add custom commands and display results in the menu. It's feasible, and I'm going to include this in a future version. However, you'll have to wait until we reach the beta phase, which is expected to occur sometime in February.