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