I've tried to do the same with conky on Ubuntu 12.10. But then i had a better idea:
- create a new profile for gnome-terminal (transparent, small font size, whatever you like)
- install package
devilspie (you can also try the GTK version gdevilspie - create a new config file for
devilspie which will help to get rid of the window frame border and menu
e.g. /home/<user>/.devilspie/gnome-terminal.ds
contents:
(if (is (window_role) "borderless") (begin (undecorate) (geometry "-0-0") (below) (skip_tasklist) ) )
(geometry "-0-0") will place the window at the bottom right
When the configuration file gnome-terminal.ds has not been written/changed you have to create it and stop/restart the devilspie deamon to see any changes. Dont forget to add the daemon to your startup scripts (XFCE: Setting > Session and Startup).
Now we need a startup bash script which you can add to your autostart just like devilspie. Something like this:
#!/bin/bash if [ $# -lt 1 ] then echo "Usage: `basename $0` <iface>" exit 1 fi killall -9 nethogs 2>/dev/null sleep 5 `sudo -H -u <username> gnome-terminal -e "/usr/bin/nethogs -d 4 $1" --profile=<profile-name> --role=borderless` exit 0
You must pass an argument to the script to specify the target device. Notice that there is a sleep command within the script, just to make sure that previous nethogs processes are not running.