xfce4-hdaps
- Update 2026-02-24
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I switched to wayland on my thinkpad due to the worsening
performance of webkit-gtk under X. At the time, XFCE did not
support wayland, so tl;dr I am no longer using XFCE. I will try to
keep this working, but it is lightly doomed and will not be
getting a port to the next version of XFCE/GTK unless someone else
takes over.
get it
- Release
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xfce4-hdaps-1.0.3.tar.xz
- Browse source
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gitweb,
codeberg
- Clone it
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git clone https://gitweb.michael.orlitzky.com/xfce4-hdaps.git
xfce4-hdaps is included in Gentoo
linux, and Fedora packages are usually available in the cheese
repository.
what is it?
A plugin to indicate the status of the IBM Hard Drive Active
Protection System, or HDAPS.
requirements
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The hdaps kernel module from the tp_smapi
project.
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A running hdaps
daemon, at least if you'd like the plugin to do anything. The
daemon is what updates sysfs with the readings from the hdaps
module.
installation
I think it builds like most XFCE panel plugins. Git users, run
./autogen.sh in the project directory to bootstrap
autotools. Afterwards, it's an autotools project that installs like
any other, e.g.
user $ ./configure
user $ make
user $ make install
settings
- Poll Frequency
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This is the frequency with which the plugin checks the status of
HDAPS. If you set it to 500ms (the default), it will check every
half second and update the icon according to what it finds.
- Device Name
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The name of the device whose HDAPS status you wish to
monitor. This will almost certainly be a hard drive, and will most
likely be sda. With any luck, the plugin will
auto-detect the supported devices on your system. If you have more
than one supported device, you will need to select it on the
configuration dialog.
how to report bugs
Email them to me at michael@orlitzky.com, or
report them on Codeberg.