CrunchBang Linux

@ragamatrix - it is strange that you get nothing when launching your conky through the terminal... how do you launch it?

picture via google, slogan via this site http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?word=Crunchbang,
crappy resize making the font look like crap, me ... together i think we have a winner!

that is correct, and fitting given that it is memorial day here in the US

not Arlington Cemetery
but it is a national cemetery (well national to the US that is), one of the oldest in fact dating back to 1827

@ pvsage, I havnt been there myself (although seen it from a distance), and the more zoomed in map must have been taken at a different time than this one as it shows earthworks in that location

@wuxmedia, it is all those things ... but not a national "park" as such
and it is a hospital for a specific kind of person

alas, those are not correct 

then it must be Machu Picchu (but i think pacrat already knew that lol )

^gradients are too hard
see here http://cairographics.org/samples/gradient/

as with the curves the annoying part is getting the coordinates for the function
i wrote some code to make gradients easier, also movable and easily transformed with respect to an input number

i would have to dig around for that

i wrote this drawing function: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. … 39#p251239

if i remember right it is a little limited (2 colors per gradient i think), but there are potentially so many variables involved it can get really complicated

i think i have a newer version that allows unlimited colors per gradient...

anyway.... now that school is out i was wondering what all the cool kids are doing with conky these days? lol

i did pretty much this when writing v9000
i had the intellicast icons (which i didnt like) in one folder and the conkyforecast icons (which i wanted to use) in another
looked at the intellicats icon and matched it to the one it looked like most in conkyforecast

there are only so many weather icons:

wx_65="32",  -- Clear
wx_66="30",  -- Partly Cloudy
wx_67="26",  -- Cloudy
wx_68="32",  -- Clear
wx_69="28",  -- Mostly Cloudy
wx_70="20",  -- Fog
wx_71="32",  -- Clear
wx_72="21",  -- Haze
wx_73="36",  -- Hot
wx_74="14",  -- Light Snow Showers
wx_75="28",  -- Mostly Cloudy
wx_76="18",  -- Sleet
wx_77="14",  -- Light Snow Showers
wx_78="23",  -- Blustery
wx_79="05",  -- Mixed Rain and Snow
wx_80="15",  -- Drifting Snow
wx_81="15",  -- Drifting Snow
wx_82="11",  -- Light Rain
wx_83="16",  -- Snow
wx_84="00",  -- Tornado
wx_85="32",  -- Clear
wx_86="25",  -- N/A
wx_87="09",  -- Drizzle
wx_88="05",  -- Mixed Rain and Snow
wx_89="18",  -- Sleet
wx_90="18",  -- Sleet
wx_91="39",  -- Scattered Showers
wx_92="39",  -- Scattered Showers
wx_93="39",  -- Scattered Showers
wx_94="39",  -- Scattered Showers
wx_95="37",  -- Isolated Thunderstorms
wx_96="37",  -- Isolated Thunderstorms
wx_97="31",  -- Clear
wx_98="29",  -- Partly Cloudy
wx_99="27",  -- Mostly Cloudy
wx_100="47",  -- Isolated Thunderstorms
wx_101="47",  -- Isolated Thunderstorms
wx_102="33",  -- Fair
wx_103="26",  -- Cloudy
wx_104="20",  -- Fog
wx_105="45",  -- Scattered Showers
wx_106="45",  -- Scattered Showers
wx_107="11",  -- Light Rain
wx_108="46",  -- Snow Showers
wx_109="46",  -- Snow Showers
wx_110="06",  -- Mixed Rain and Sleet
wx_111="18",  -- Sleet
wx_112="06",  -- Mixed Rain and Sleet
wx_113="46",  -- Snow Showers
wx_114="46",  -- Snow Showers
wx_115="31",  -- Clear
wx_116="47",  -- Isolated Thunderstorms

the wx are the intellicast, the 2 digit numbers represent the conkyforecast icons

in fact, if you get hold of the wunderground icons you can use them in v9000 instead of the conkyforecast icons, just need to number them to match.

^ try removing this line from both conkies:

lua_draw_hook_pre draw_bg

because you have this line after TEXT

TEXT
${lua conky_draw_bg}

which is running the bg script also... so its being run twice per conky

or try removing the lua line after text instead and see if that makes any difference

EDIT:
in fact, looking at the conky again, the first one has multiple calls to the lua script in it
drawing the background multiple times which might account for the darkness

- adjust the setting in the script and make sure it is being called only once per script, either once above TEXT or once below

i dont know why your month settings arent working, althoug i can tell you it wouldnt work on my computer because i changed the way that vnstat formats dates in the vnstat config.

If i was going to do something with vnstat i would take a v9000 appraoch... one of the vnstat ouputs gives you all the info  -dumpdb  then format it all into tables that can be accessed... actually now i come to think of it I may have done something like that in the past   have to look through my files at some point soon

^ i think sector11 is using a different version of the draw_bg script from packrat
packrat is using the VD version, while sector11 is using the version i modified with help from DK75

might make a difference, but might not