In smxi, in Package Install section, inxi installer, updated to install all inxi dependencies + recommends and if X is present on system, all X tools as well.
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Update to core and processor logic.

"Updated and hopefully simplified the
get_cpu<data>. We no longer care what the
numbers are, all we do is count unique
ids. Now we ignore the id identifier
number, since the new i series from Intel
either kills a logical processor or ships
flawed quad cores as dual or dual HT,
maybe even tri-core sometime. The new
logic only cares about the number of
cores, the number of physical processors,
and the number of virtual processors."
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New inxi feature: -n
-n shows advanced network card information per card. -n Triggers -Nx
automatically.

Also slightly redid the -i option to have cleaner output more consistent with -n

-n shows, when it can find it, the interface id, like eth0 or wlan1, the speed, the state of the interface, mac id, duplex mode.

I can probably add more easily.

This will require some debugging I expect as user hardware appears that isn't handled right, so I made the initial version 1.4.80 to give some room to get to 1.5.0, which will be the final new version number once this is working reliably for most people.

I may have it not show the mac id for irc, not sure about that, probably best to not show it.

Sample:


Note that not all cards and kernels have all the data, we'll see if that can be found in the system over time as we get more information and data.
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inxi 1.4.82
Some fixes and new features, part of spring cleaning and pre 1.5.x work.

inxi -Gx
now shows Bus ID data for each card.

inxi -i
and
inxi -n
now show filtered data for irc client use, to avoid showing private machine data like LAN ip and Mac addressses.

Also fixed -p to show full path of all mounts in terminal, but to filter them with ## when in /home for irc output.

Possible new feature: terminal first run script color selector, this can help solve the issue of bad default colors in dark and white default terminals like gterm. This will set a config file and add the entry for default script color. and let user know where the file is, and how to override it with -j option.
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A testing branch of inxi is available, it features a new color scheme picker, to get the branch of inxi, do: inxi -! 11
then you can start it in terminal with: inxi -c 99
this shows how all the colors look.

For now this only sets colors for terminal, I'll add an option for testing for irc colors later, but both will need to be set in terminal.

This will help people who use always light or always dark backgrounds on terminal and console, and it keeps the old basics too as the first main group of color schemes you see.

the picker lets you see how the colors look.

Note, these changes are NOT in the main inxi -U branch, because they are major and just being tested now.
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inxi -! 11
testing branch update, now has 3 settings options:
version 1.4.82-b8

If no real issues I'll make this new stable tomorrow.

inxi -c 99
starts selector to set global value for default colors, irc/terminal
inxi -c 98
selector for IRC client running out of X
inxi -c 97
selector for irc client in X or default for all irc clients
inxi -c 96
selector for virtual terminal colors in X, like Gterm, Konsole, and so on.
Not all terminals have the same colors so you have to test it
inxi -c 95
selector for out of X terminal

There's no way for inxi to know if it's a terminal irc client though I guess a flag can be set in the iniitial client detection thing for all known irc cilents, but I think that's getting a bit too picky, though if there is demand I'll add that further customization.

Play around with it, check the colors out, make suggestions, I'll leave this in the testing branch for a while to see if I get any good color feedback.

There's about 30 colors schemes to pick from, including most of the original ones from inxi.

The selector section shows you the colors as they should appear if you are using default colors in terminal/irc, if you aren't, you'll have to do some trial and error, but it's very easy to change the settings

Each selector also has an option to restore inxi defaults, to continue without changing, and to exit.

Sort of smxi like I guess, but this is as close as inxi will get to that, I promise.

I was going to make this a default run once option for first time you run it in terminal (not irc since you can't run interractive scripts in irc) but I'm going to wait for more feedback to see if that's a good idea.

These new color settings mean you can have the colors you want in x, out of x, with dark backgrounds out of x, with light in x, etc.

Each user, and root, can have their own settings, or you can set them to be global in /etc/inxi.conf in which case all users will get the same colors. Distros who want to package it with different defaults for in and out of X can now do that via the /etc/inxi.conf file if it's part of a packaged inxi.
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Now live as current stable trunk. version 1.4.85 (and counting!):

I've changed the options a bit from above, here's the current ones for the color selector:



also fixed many glitches, fixed long standing updater failure case, which by chance actually happened to me while testing today, so now inxi cannot update without the file data being verified first. Also, the error messages will be much more reliable for update failures, telling the user exactly what failed and what to do.
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Version 1.4.91 :: Added usb wifi support, initial. If you have a usb wifi card and it is not detected, please post your complete output of:
lsusb
and the detection rules will be updated to include the card brand/version.
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version 1.4.92:

I modified the color selector group to only offer safe for dark or light background colors for irc and global settings.

This solves the problem people reported of not being able to see the colors on varying backgrounds.

So now if you pick the selector option for any irc client, or for global settings, you will only be offered the safe group of colors to select from.

Anyone who set their colors to unsafe colors should reset them, otherwise others may not be able to read your irc output.

And we're getting closer now to a final 1.5 release I think, since this stuff is now fine tuning.
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New stuff: inxi 1.4.97

Update, inxi -U
Then run: inxi -@ 11
this will download and run xiin, the new directory traverse/reader we use to diagnose /sys failures and other things we'll think of in the future, create data files of lsusb, lspci, lspci -vv and of course the xiin output, then gzip that up and tell you where the gz file is located, which will be: $HOME/.inxi/

Also, removed speed and duplex output for detected wifi card strings in -n output, since speed and duplex are never present for wifi. This depends on a key word being present in the card string, so if you see duplex/speed listed then paste in your inxi -n and I'll see if I can expand the search string, but it already covers: wireless, wifi, wi-fi, wlan and can only trigger when it's certainly an identifiable word that means wireless networking.
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