One of my favourite accessory programs for X is 'xbattbar' which puts a 3px wide line all along one side of your X screen with part of it red and part of it blue to indicate how much battery remains. Obviously there are many other battery indicators, and it's also obvious that this one has fallen out of favour: the original author vanished years ago (last updates circa 2010) and now it's no longer supported in Debian because the maintainer there has evidently lost interest. I'm not sure it was ever supported as a package in Fedora. By some judicious hacking of both the C and Python components from the most recent Debian source package, I've convinced it to build on Fedora 31. I'm not particularly happy with this solution as I'm well aware of my complete lack of C knowledge and only basic Python skills. What I'd like to do is to re-implement this idea in pure Python with a more flexible vision. 'xbattbar' already allows you to use an accessory script (a couple are provided, in Python) to feed values to xbattbar. So I was thinking of re-implementing it without the idea that it's just for batteries, but could show you hard drive usage or network throughput (although sample rate becomes an issue then: xbattbar allows adjustment of sample rate, but by default it's every 5 or 10 seconds). I think this is a good idea, but my limited Python experience barely extends beyond basic CLI and administrative scripts. So the questions for all of you are, has someone already done this, and if not, where do I start on figuring out how to draw a bar on an X screen without a window around it? -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com