If you need to get a program to start every time you boot into LXDE, you simply need to add it to the startup file here:
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
Add a line at the bottom of the file with the @ symbol and the program to run, for example:
@conky -c ~/.conky/.conkyrc.main &
Recently whilst wiping some old hard disks I thought it would be useful to see what the ‘dd’ command was doing, rather than sitting there blankly for hour. I knocked up a little bash script to run in another terminal that will update the terminal running dd with some useful status information.
In this example, dd will be run as…
$ dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
copy the following into ddUpdate.sh for example and run it…
#!/bin/sh ddpid=`ps auwx | awk '/dd if/ && !/awk/ { print $2}'` while [ "$ddpid" != "" ] do kill -USR1 $ddpid sleep 1 ddpid=`ps auwx | awk '/dd if/ && !/awk/ { print $2}'` done
This outputs the following to the terminal running dd…
xxxxxx records in xxxxxx records out xxxxxx bytes (xx nn) copied, xxxx s, xx MB/s
