leetmode and more (SuperKaramba themes and widgets thread)

[theprez98]

Search terms: leetmode, system monitor, system information, techmon, karamba, superkaramba

What is known in BackTrack 2 as "leetmode" is actually a widget based upon Linux tool called SuperKaramba. The "leetmode" widget you see on the desktop is known as "TechMon".

You may be wondering...can I download and install other SuperKaramba widgets in BackTrack 2? The answer of course, is yes. Here's how:

1. Click on the circular blue disk-looking thingy in your system tray. It'll open the SuperKaramba Themes window.
2. Click on "get new stuff..."
3. Pick whatever you want. I tried "Liquid Weather ++". It took me to the widget homepage. I downloaded it to /root.
4. Go back to the SuperKaramba Themes window and click on "open local theme." Goto /root (or whereever you downloaded the widget to) and load it up.

I don't know if all widgets are this easy, so you might try a few out and report back to this thread.

[shamanvirtuel]

im a long time karamba user most of themes are really easy to install....just follow theprez procedure....if the new theme don't install itself auto(most of them install auto)...........

[pureh@te]

I too have istalled a few themes and its quite easy. The prez's instructions is just how I did it. There were a few that didn't work but it could be the involved more action to istall and I probably was not patient enough. One problem I did have if any one knows to solution is when I start leetmode manually every thing is fine but when I add it to the kde autostart the whole system slows down and the cpu hangsat like 80-90% and every thing is screwed

[shamanvirtuel]

tip 4 make some karamba themes working........

some karamba theme never work with backtrack.....because of paths

you can edit a karamba theme like this
1 open skz file in ark or xarchiver
2 extract it to a dir
3 edit the py file with the right paths
4 rebuild theme as a gzip file....rename it after with .skz extension

that's all

im trying build a new karamba theme working in parrallel with my new baby(see in spec topic)...the idea is to have an output of running attacks and running crack process directly on the desktop as all karamba themes........but im not a good coder in python....so don't no if i'll manage to do it........
edit : i did it.......i got a new attack monitor in karamba style working in conjonction with my new baby........

[-~operator~-]

run into the issue when your leetmode/techmon is not monitoring the right Network interface? Try this:

lets say you haven't changed TechMon, so the interface it is monitoring will be eth0. But you want it to monitor eth1.

shutdown any running Techmon. Make a right click on it and choose "Close this theme".

open up a shell, type

kwrite /opt/karamba/TechMon/TechMon.theme &

this will open kwrite with your Techmon config file.

go to edit-->replace. Text to find: "eth0", Replacement text: "eth1" (or any other interface you like to use with Techmon, without the ""). let it run, should be 8 Replacements.

Save it, close kwrite. Open up superkaramba (the blue bubble near your system clock), there you find Techmon. Click it and choose "Add to desktop". Enjoy!

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if you like it more "leet" use this in a shell (just set your devices accordingly):

sed -e '/eth0/s/eth0/eth1/g' /opt/karamba/TechMon/TechMon.theme > /opt/karamba/TechMon/TechMon.theme.new; rm /opt/karamba/TechMon/TechMon.theme; mv /opt/karamba/TechMon/TechMon.theme.new /opt/karamba/TechMon/TechMon.theme

this would be a bit faster than the other way

[theprez98]

Originally Posted by -~operator~-

run into the issue when your leetmode/techmon is not monitoring the right Network interface? Try this:

I have already done this for my Atheros card (ath0) and it works like a champ. I also edited the line to say "wireless network" instead of just "network".

[Tevalyn]

I made the modifications shown above, but my leetmode still did not show my IP or ports or anything else.

Before I installed madwifi it would show my ports, but I could not connect because I did not have the correct drivers.

Now I have the correct drivers and can connect to a network but leetmode does not show the proper information.

After looking through that conf file, I saw it calls a file called "showip".

I tried to execute that from console and I get....

bt bin # showip
-bash: /usr/bin/showip: cannot execute binary file


Any idea how to fix this?

[-~operator~-]

I made the modifications shown above

remember that you have to insert the right interface. With madwifi, this should be something like "athX", isn't it? check with ifconfig/iwconfig the interface you should use.

[Tevalyn]

Yes, I opened the config and edited it from eth0 to ath0, which matches my card that is currently associated with the AP, that I have an IP with.

I guess I am off topic in this thread, just wondering why showip doesnt work?

[theprez98]

Originally Posted by Tevalyn

Yes, I opened the config and edited it from eth0 to ath0, which matches my card that is currently associated with the AP, that I have an IP with.

I guess I am off topic in this thread, just wondering why showip doesnt work?

Make sure you get all the replacements. There are eight eth0 to ath0 replacements to make.