Addition of a Clock Widget?

[TheCedarPrince]

I really like GoTop - I usually have it full screen on one of my monitors.

Would there be any way there could be a built-in clock widget to display time as my task bar is taken up by the GoTop terminal I have in maximum size?

Thanks!

[cjbassi]

Would you prefer to have the time in a statusbar like in vtop or add a new widget that works like the tmux clock?

[TheCedarPrince]

I was envisioning something more like vtop except the widget could be placed in a small box above (or below - whichever looks nicer) the disk usage and temperatures widget.

What we could play around with is looking at the vertical gap at the bottom of gotop (as you can see in my picture) which spans the entirety of the command prompt.

I'd be happy to test things out but I do not have the skill nor bandwidth to make the widget right now...

Thanks @cjbassi!

[cjbassi]

So the gap at the bottom is actually just a rounding error. It goes away on certain terminal sizes. But we could also just create a space at the bottom for a clock/statusbar.

[TheCedarPrince]

Great! Let's try it at @cjbassi !

[cjbassi]

So you can now add a statusbar with a clock by passing the -b flag. 😄 Let me know if it works for you or if we should change anything with it.

[cjbassi]

Just added a clock widget, so I decided to change the statusbar so its now enabled with -s. Breaking change ik, but we just added this so no biggie I assume. :D

[TheCedarPrince]

@cjbassi - a little naive with Go; how do I update gotop to try this out?

[cjbassi]

You can do go get -u github.com/cjbassi/gotop to install it into your gopath. The -u flag allows the package to be updated if it's already installed. Or you can install gotop-git from the AUR if you're on Arch Linux. Or to build an executable that you can do what you want with, you can do

git clone https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop && cd gotop && go build

Hope that helps :)

[TheCedarPrince]

Hey @cjbassi - tried to use go to update via my gopath and ran into this error:

go get -u github.com/cjbassi/gotop

package context: unrecognized import path "context" (import path does not begin with hostname)

My go version is go1.6.2 linux/amd64.

Any idea about why this is happening?

CP

[cjbassi]

So the issue there is that the context package was added in Go 1.7, so you'd have to update Go. Not sure which package is using it. I'm planning on releasing a new version of gotop soon if that helps too since there will be binaries available.