connmap

connmap is an X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map. (Works on Wayland as well!)

Installation

Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/h2337/connmap --depth 1, install the dependencies (see below), run make install, then run the resulting executable ./connmap.elf.

If you want to run it without attaching it to the terminal then add ampersand at the end of the command: ./connmal.elf &.

You can also add it to your i3wm config to run at startup (make sure it is in the PATH):

exec --no-startup-id connmap.elf

Dependencies

Build dependencies: xlib, libxext, libxfixes, libcairo2

Installation dependencies: unzip

Runtime dependencies: iproute2

Installation for Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S --needed iproute2 libx11 libxext libxfixes cairo unzip

Installation for Ubuntu:

sudo apt install iproute2 libx11-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libcairo2-dev unzip

Config

Installation will create ~/.config/connmap/connmaprc. Default connmaprc looks like this:

location_x 20
location_y 500
map_width 1000
black false
update_interval 1

• location_x/location_y specifies the initial widget location in your desktop (you can later drag/drop the widget with mouse if you are not using a desktop environment that treats mouse drag as multi-select).

• map_width specifies the custom pixel width of the map. Height is automatically calculated as width/2. Examples:

  • map_width 500 creates a 500×250px map
  • map_width 1000 creates a 1000×500px map
  • map_width 1500 creates a 1500×750px map
  • map_width 2000 creates a 2000×1000px map

• Setting black to true will draw map outline in black instead of white.

• update_interval is seconds the application will sleep for before fetching the updated list of network connections.

Limitations

• Tested only with i3wm, might not work as expected in other DE/WM.

• Only IPv4 is supported.