README

   1 ABSTRACT
   2
   3 This project is a c/guile project built to manage Tom Balzer's POSIX
   4 compliant systems. The daemon is written in C99, with extensions being
   5 written in Guile.
   6
   7 PURPOSE
   8
   9 I am tired of writing one off scripts to do core management duties,
  10 and want everything to be directly under my control. Projected duties:
  11
  12 - Daemon management
  13 - Terminal management
  14 - Power management
  15 - Window management
  16 - Network management
  17
  18 DAEMON MANAGEMENT
  19
  20 I want something to monitor the daemons I want on my machines that
  21 isn't total horse shit.
  22
  23 - Emacs
  24 - Spoon (dwm status bar)
  25 - Mail (mu, fetchmail)
  26 - Music (rn just cmus, should move to mpvd?)
  27 - xst (not implemented, but a server for this will be implemented and
  28   needs managed.
  29 - Guix? Nix?
  30
  31 TERMINAL MANAGEMENT
  32
  33 Since xst wants to implement a terminal server, I figure it should be
  34 managed by something like this. It might be fun to try and implement
  35 it in Guile, and if this is already setup to work with Guile
  36 extensions it seems a natural place.
  37
  38 POWER MANAGEMENT
  39
  40 Right now I am using powertop and one off scripts that run on boot to
  41 make sure my power settings are correct. I would rather have something
  42 that automatically does:
  43
  44 - Custom profiles for A/C, Battery, Sleeping, etc.
  45 - Automatic scripting on events
  46
  47 WINDOW MANAGEMENT
  48
  49 I use suckless.org's dwm, which is very small, fast, and easy to
  50 use. But, I want to have somethings better integrated.
  51
  52 - Event driven updates of the status bar
  53  + volume
  54  + network
  55  + time
  56  + music
  57 - preset layouts/programs on different tabs, layouts.
  58 - arbitrary scripts, guile will do
  59
  60 NETWORK MANAGEMENT
  61
  62 I use a laptop without wireless, so I USB tether my phone to fill that
  63 gap. I want to automatically start tethering on my phone and run the
  64 corresponding commands on my machine when i plug it in.
  65
  66 - Android app?
  67 - Detect plugin/plugout events
  68 - Notify the status bar for status