connmap

connmap is an X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map.

Here's how it looks on my 1366x768 desktop with the default settings:

Installation

Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/jafarlihi/connmap --depth 1 and run make install.

Dependencies

Build dependencies: xlib, libcairo2

Runtime dependencies: ss utility of iproute2 package

Config

Installation will create ~/.config/connmap/connmaprc. Default connmaprc looks like this:

location_x 20
location_y 500
small true
update_interval 1

• location_x/location_y specifies the widget location in your desktop.

• Setting small to false will resize widget from 500px/250px to 1000px/500px.

• update_interval is seconds the application will sleep for before fetching the updated list of network connections.

Limitations

• Tested only with i3wm, might not work as expected in other DE/WM.

• Only IPv4 is supported.

• Only country geolocation is supported. Longitude/latitude geolocation might be added in the future.

IP Database

You can acquire up-to-date IP database from: https://lite.ip2location.com/database/ip-country

It is expected to be found at $HOME/.config/connmap/resources/IP2LOCATION-LITE-DB1.CSV

IP database license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/