How to make a "Hollywood" desktop in Linux?

In Hollywood includes a set of tools, such kak htop, hexdump, apg, man, stat, tree, speedometer, jp2a, bmon, sshart, cmatrix and others. In combination with the mosaic arrangement of windows, realized by means of a console window Byobu manager, they look the most spectacular.

In different windows terminal run the utility to display the logs show activity processes, the load on the CPU evaluation, monitoring of network connections, visualization of the sound spectrum, and so on. Demonstrates image pseudographics, the contents of different areas / proc, / sys and / dev, a tree view of different directories and other at the same time useful and useless data. All together, this gives an imitation kinoshnoy images, similar to the way in the representation of man in the street should look like the screen of a steep hacker at work.

In that case, if the repository is not hollywood package and command sudo apt-get install hollywood does not work, plug the repository manually.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hollywood/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hollywood

To start enough hollywood team. To exit the program, you can press the key combination Ctrl + C and end to complete the process.

Unfortunately, there is one impressive appearance - sense from Hollywood is not enough, unless you can tie it as the screensaver. But multitail - a very flexible and useful work tool. With it you can watch not only for the logs, but the withdrawal of the other teams, for example rsstail, wtmptail, negtail.

The number of displayed windows is not limited in any way. You can view the sea of ​​different information. One of the valuable features - the ability to select color schemes. They are available for all of the observed programs, for example for Postfix, Apache, Sendmail, tcpdump, and Squid, you can choose different themes.

MultiTail can filter the output, like grep and sed, and maybe even convert a part of the output lines. For example, log files of Squid and qmail can be converted into something more readable. More MultiTail able to convert the IP-addresses, error codes and more.

The set of functions can be easily extended by scripts in Perl, bash, Python, or other languages. On the other useful features MultiTail mozhesh read on the official project page. I think this sotfina worthy to take its place on one of the monitors administrator. Yes, and it looks not much less impressive than Hollywood.