System information script for X-Chat. The old X-Sys plugin (in C) is no longer supported by the author, and has a few bugs due to its age.

Copy xsys.py to ~/.config/hexchat.

Copy xsys.py to ~/.xchat2.

The only commands not implemented are those that store settings: /xsys2format, /playing (for configuring how the /np command should output; colours, etc), /percentages (if percentages should be used instead of totals for memory and disk space), and /npaction.

For easy testing (instead of having to manually load and unload into X-Chat 2 again and again), test the script using in the command line using ./xsys-cli. It is only for Python 2.

If you modify the /np command, make sure to test it with non-ASCII titled songs (test any UTF-8 encoded text) in X-Chat 2 (not just in the command line). If anything fails, it is probably because xchat.command() is expecting a byte string. As such, you may need to encode() (Unicode HOWTO) the string in all stages prior to calling xchat.command().

If you want to send a pull request, check all Python files and fix them to be PEP 8 conformant before doing so.

• /sysinfo General system information (a combination of several commands)
• /xsys Show X-Sys version
• /cpuinfo Show CPU name, count of CPU cores, and current speed
• /sysuptime Show system uptime in a human readable format
• /osinfo Show OS information (similar to uname command)
• /sound Show all sound cards
• /netdata Show current network statistics (transmitted and received)
• /netstream Show current network speeds (note that this will freeze X-Chat for 1 second to test)
• /diskinfo Show total space and free space
• /meminfo Show memory information
• /video Show video card information
• /ether Show all ethernet adapters
• /distro Get distro information
• /hwmon Read temperatures from sensors

• Only officially supports Linux
• /sound only works with PCI if the system is not using ALSA
• /video For binary drivers, only supports the nVidia driver. Otherwise reads PCI data generically and does not determine the slot type.
• /distro relies upon the /etc/lsb_release or /etc/lsb-release file existing. If that does not exist, the command only checks for the following distros: Gentoo, RedHat, Slackware, Mandriva, Debian, SuSE, TurboLinux, Sabayon
• /hwmon has limited support for the binary nVidia driver and generic support for recent Intel chipsets