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Hardware Tooltip

by IM0001GT

Omarchy-native click panel that names your CPU, RAM, GPU, and disks, then shows live load bars and headline temperatures that follow the theme

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Security review

Review recommended · 1 finding

Deterministic scan — not a security guarantee

Low
Risk level
Low
Analyzed commit
d6fd7e0
Scanned
2 weeks ago

Flagged patterns appear only in documentation files (README / docs) — descriptive examples, not executable code.

  • Docs sudo README.md:53

    Command runs with sudo, elevating the process beyond the plugin environment.

    sudo or pkexec is required.

Automated analysis only — not a security guarantee.

AI advisory review

No obvious issues detected

Language-model assessment · ~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest — advisory only

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AI risk level
None
Recommendation
install
Model
~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest
Analyzed commit
d6fd7e0
Reviewed
2 weeks ago

Hardware Tooltip is a benign hardware-monitoring bar widget: it reads sysfs/proc data, optionally calls nvidia-smi or intel_gpu_top, writes only private cache/flag files, and launches btop only on user right-click. The deterministic scan's sudo finding is a false positive from the README, which explicitly states that no sudo or pkexec is required.

How this check works

This review combines the deterministic scan (the rule-based results above) with an independent look at the plugin's code by a language model. The model reads a trimmed sample of the repository's files, the manifest, and the README, then gives a plain-language risk level and a recommendation: install (no notable danger), review (look closer first), or avoid (clearly dangerous).

It runs on the same analyzed commit as the deterministic scan and is strictly advisory — it is not a security guarantee and never blocks a plugin by itself. A human moderator still reviews plugins before they are listed.

AI advisory only — automated analysis, not a security guarantee.

Install
$ omarchy plugin add https://github.com/IM0001GT/omarchy-hw-tooltip --enable
Hardware #bar #quickshell #system

Hardware Tooltip

An Omarchy bar widget that names the silicon in the machine, then stays out of the way.

Click the chip for a Power-style panel: CPU model, temperature, and per-core bars, RAM type/speed and temp, GPU name, temperature, and load, disk model, fill, and temp. It follows the active Omarchy theme. Right-click opens btop if you want the full TUI.

<p align="center"> <img src="preview.gif" alt="Left-click opens the Hardware Tooltip panel; click again to close" width="360"> </p> <p align="center"> <img src="preview.png" alt="Hardware Tooltip click panel" width="240"> <img src="docs/theme-night.png" alt="Hardware Tooltip after switching to a dark pink theme" width="240"> </p>
Left click Right click
CPU name/temp, per-core bars, RAM type/speed/temp, GPU name/temp, storage model, fill, and temp Launch or focus btop

Load-aware status lines rotate the same way the Power panel does — idle machines loaf, busy GPUs push pixels, a local model run starts chewing context.

Why this exists

Omarchy Quattro's bar no longer ships a glance for what this computer is. Other listed plugins cover adjacent jobs:

  • btop Activity — a btop companion: launch, window mode, process sort, compact meters
  • System Stats / Vitals / Activity Monitor — full monitors with tabs, graphs, or process control

Hardware Tooltip is the other thing: a themed click panel you can read in one look, with hardware identity on the labels, not just percentages. It is not a btop frontend.

ASRock BC-250

Tuned for the BC-250 / Cyan Skillfish board (1002:13fe). Linux binds the GPU as amdgpu, but SMU telemetry on this cut-down Oberon part is empty, so generic AMD tools report a stuck 0%:

Signal What Linux does on a BC-250
gpu_busy_percent node exists, read() returns ENOTSUPP
gpu_metrics average_gfx_activity stays 0xFFFF
radeontop unknown card, stuck 0%
DIMM / SPD none — 16 GB soldered GDDR6, dmidecode / inxi show type N/A and a 1750 MT/s command clock

This widget:

  • samples GPU load from /proc/*/fdinfo drm-engine-* time (Render/3D) instead of the broken busy node
  • labels memory as GDDR6 14000 MT/s from the published 14 Gbps-per-pin spec, not the command clock

Ordinary Radeons still use gpu_busy_percent. Intel uses DRM fdinfo / RC6. NVIDIA uses nvidia-smi only when the driver is actually loaded.

The 16 GB of unified memory is soldered GDDR6, not DIMMs, so dmidecode / inxi report type: N/A (the panel used to show a lone N) and a single 1750 MT/s command clock. There is no SPD to read. On PCI 1002:13fe / DMI BC-250 the widget uses the published 14 Gbps-per-pin spec as GDDR6 14000 MT/s.

Install

Plugins run as unsandboxed code inside omarchy-shell. Only add repos you trust. No sudo or pkexec is required.

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/IM0001GT/omarchy-hw-tooltip --enable

That clones into ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/im0001gt.hw-tooltip/, validates the manifest, and can drop the widget on the right side of the bar, next to Power.

Intel and AMD need no extra packages. NVIDIA GPU load uses nvidia-smi from nvidia-utils, which Omarchy already ships with the NVIDIA driver stack. If that tool is missing on NVIDIA hardware, the widget shows it on the GPU line and sends one desktop notice. The widget still works without it; GPU load just reads n/a.

Use

  • Left click the chip — panel with CPU, memory, GPU, and storage
  • Right click — launch or focus btop
  • Click the chip again, or anywhere outside, to close

The panel sizes itself to the hardware in the machine: more CPU threads add columns and height, extra disks grow the storage block, and the card still stops at the screen edge. On a 16-core / 32-thread desktop the thread grid uses four columns so Memory, GPU, and Storage stay on screen.

Move it with omarchy bar move im0001gt.hw-tooltip.

Update

omarchy plugin update im0001gt.hw-tooltip --yes
omarchy restart shell

omarchy plugin update only fast-forwards the git checkout. Quickshell can keep the previous QML in memory until the shell restarts.

Uninstall

omarchy plugin remove im0001gt.hw-tooltip

Requirements

  • Omarchy with the shell plugin CLI (omarchy plugin add)
  • btop and jq (already on Omarchy)
  • Optional nvidia-utils, only if nvidia-smi is missing (Omarchy usually already has it)
GPU Extra package How load is read
Intel none DRM fdinfo engine busy (drm-engine-* on i915, drm-cycles-* on xe), then RC6 / GT idle residency. No kernel.perf_event_paranoid change
NVIDIA nvidia-utils nvidia-smi, and only when the NVIDIA driver is loaded
AMD none gpu_busy_percent. If that node is missing or ENOTSUPP (BC-250), DRM fdinfo engine time

Hybrid laptops and multi-GPU desktops list each card the same way storage lists each mount: name, load, and one headline temperature.

Temperatures

Each device in the panel shows one headline temperature when the kernel exposes it: CPU package / Tctl, GPU junction (AMD) or GPU die, a DIMM/SODIMM reading, and NVMe Composite (or the drive's primary sensor). Extra per-core, per-junction, and ambient/wifi/battery sensors stay out of the tooltip.

Layout

manifest.json          Omarchy plugin manifest (must live at repo root)
HardwareTooltip.qml    Bar icon + click panel
preview.gif            README demo
preview.png            Marketplace still (teal theme)
docs/theme-night.png   Same panel after a theme change
scripts/system-usage   CPU / RAM / GPU / disk sampler
scripts/hw_tooltip.py  Intel xe load + headline temperatures
tests/test_hw_tooltip.py

The repo root is the plugin. That is what omarchy plugin add and omarchy plugin validate expect.

Credits

  • pisolutions-es — Intel xe GPU load from fdinfo cycles and GT idle residency
  • hlasensky — CPU and GPU temperature display
  • jotapesse — memory and storage temperatures

License

MIT. See LICENSE.