Conky Companions PPA

Sector11 · 2010-12-15 16:42:26

WARNING: Using PPA's is not normally a recommended practice in Debian!
It may cause #! to go CRUNCH!! BANG!! Use at your own risk!

I use it without a problem!

Just about anyone that uses Conky is familiar with Kaivalagi's Python Scripts and the support threads on the Ubuntu forums.

conkyBanshee
conkyClementine - NEW
conkyDeluge - no longer supported
conkyEmail
conkyExaile
conkyForecast <<--- dead
conkyGoogleCalendar
conkyGoogleReader
conkyGuayadeque
conkyPidgin
conkyRhythmbox
conkyTransmission - replacing conkyDeluge

Well, why not have those python apps in your "resourses list"?
Here's how!

For the ARCH users here:

ArchLinux : Package support is present in the AUR. All my packages can be seen here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=kaivalagi

This is where the #!'er's come in:

Ubuntu/Debian : All the script packages have now been copied into the Conky Companions PPA. Any package updates will be provided by the team through this new ppa. The ppa can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~conky-companions/+archive/ppa. To use this ppa first delete the old ppa files using this: "sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/m-buck* && sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/conkyhardcore*". Then follow the instruction on the PPA page to install to your sources list:

Adding this PPA to your system

You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:conky-companions/ppa to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)

> Technical details about this PPA

For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact Conky Companions.

Using Ubuntu? Use the Link: (Read about installing)

Using Debian (#! Statler) use the: > Technical details about this PPA link.

It is quoted here for you to see {brackets - notes added by S11}:

On older (pre 9.10) Ubuntu systems {Or: Debian Systems}

Step 1: Visit the PPA's overview page in Launchpad. Look for the heading that reads Adding this PPA to your system and click the Technical details about this PPA link.

Step 2: Use the Display sources.list entries drop-down box to select the version of Ubuntu you're using. {"hardy" works with Statler: edited by S11}

Step 3: You'll see that the text-box directly below reads something like this:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/conky-companions/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/conky-companions/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

Copy those lines.

Step 4: Open a terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

{or whatever text editor you have}

This will open a text editor containing the list of archives that your system is currently using. Scroll to the bottom of the file and paste the lines you copied in the step above.

Save the file and exit the text editor.

Step 5: Back on the PPA's overview page, look for the Signing key heading. You'll see something like:

1024R/9BF2D8AB (What is this?) {<<--- seen below}

Copy the portion after the slash but not including the help link; e.g. just 9BF2D8AB

Step 6: Now you need to add that key to your system so Ubuntu can verify the packages from the PPA. In your terminal, enter:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 9BF2D8AB

Replace 9BF2D8AB with whatever you copied in the step 5.

This will now pull down the PPA's key and add it to your system.

Step 7: Now, as a one-off, you should tell your system to pull down the latest list of software from each archive it knows about, including the PPA you just added:

sudo apt-get update

Now you're ready to start installing software from the PPA!

Read more about Personal Package Archives in our help wiki.

I now have:

  13:13 ~
         $ aptitude search conky
i   conky                - highly configurable system monitor (transitional package)
i A conky-all            - highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled)
p   conky-cli            - highly configurable system monitor (basic version)
p   conky-std            - highly configurable system monitor (default version)
i   conkyText            - Delimited text file formatting using a template, for use in Conky
p   conkybanshee        - Banshee info, for use in Conky
i   conkyclementine        - Clementine info, for use in Conky
i   conkyemail            - Email inbox count script with ssl capabilities, for use in Conky
p   conkyexaile            - Exaile info, for use in Conky
i   conkyforecast        - Weather forecast script with support for language files, for use in Conky
p   conkygooglecalendar    - Google calendar script to display event data, for use in Conky
p   conkygooglereader    - Google Reader script to display rss summary data, for use in Conky
p   conkyguayadeque        - Guayadeque info, for use in Conky
p   conkymisc            - Misc python scripts for use in Conky
p   conkypidgin            - Pidgin buddy info, for use in Conky
p   conkyrhythmbox        - Rhythmbox info, for use in Conky
p   conkytransmission    - Transmission torrent info, for use in Conky

  13:19 ~
         $

Happy conkying!

Last edited by Sector11 (2012-06-14 19:00:19)

arpinux · 2010-12-15 22:16:01

all thoose scripts, for deb' and arch' distro ... thx for the links Sector11.

Sector11 · 2010-12-15 23:19:25

arpinux wrote:

all thoose scripts, for deb' and arch' distro ... thx for the links Sector11.

More than welcome!

solidsnake · 2011-05-01 07:35:23

Thought maybe a topic like this should be made. Just a post of Kaivalgi's Python scripts for starters and then I guess it would be helpful for other people, including myself, to post generic or useful scripts for conky.

ArchLinux : Package support is present in the AUR. All my packages can be seen here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=kaivalagi
Ubuntu/Debian : All the script packages have now been copied into the Conky Companions PPA. Any package updates will be provided by the team through this new ppa. The ppa can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~conky-companions/+archive/ppa. To use this ppa first delete the old ppa files using this: "sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/m-buck* && sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/conkyhardcore*". Then follow the modified first post instructions for the scripts
As the number of scripts I've created for Conky has grown, I figured I would create a thread to link to all the scripts threads.
So here they are:

conkyBanshee
conkyClementine
conkyDeluge
conkyEmail
conkyExaile
conkyForecast
conkyGoogleCalendar
conkyGoogleReader
conkyGuayadeque
conkyMisc
conkyPidgin
conkyRhythmbox
conkyTransmission

All are available via the Conky Companions PPA, which can be setup in one simple step (with thanks to Sector11 for the link).
ConkyCompanions PPA
If you require assistance with any of the scripts, please read their respective threads, and if necessary, post in them. I will not answer your script specific questions here, I will just ask you go to the correct thread!

Original post.

Enjoy!

Last edited by solidsnake (2011-05-01 17:52:20)

Roetsj · 2011-05-01 08:29:24

@ Solidsnake: the scripts of Kaivalgi are cool but, correct if I'm wrong, according to me PPA doesn't work for Statler. The second link to launchpad doesn't seem to work.

solidsnake · 2011-05-01 08:33:40

Roetsj wrote:

@ Solidsnake: the scripts of Kaivalgi are cool but, correct if I'm wrong, according to me PPA doesn't work for Statler. The second link to launchpad doesn't seem to work.

That's quite strange. I am fairly sure that the scripts themselves work. As you can see on this post, sinbsd is using !# and conkyForecast. I will try the method suggested in the post tonight and get back to you if I encounter any problems.

Roetsj · 2011-05-01 08:45:17

Indeed, the scripts themselves will work but is: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:conky-companions/ppa the right way for Statler?

solidsnake · 2011-05-01 09:58:52

Roetsj wrote:

Indeed, the scripts themselves will work but is: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:conky-companions/ppa the right way for Statler?

Oh I see what you mean. I'll try using that command later in the day and give back my findings. If there is an error, I'll try and get a work around (I'm sure there probably is one).

gurtid · 2011-05-01 11:08:55

well right or wrong i used this http://blog.anantshri.info/howto-add-ppa-in-debian/ to get the add-apt-repository working. it SEEMED to work although i can't get conkyforcasts working yet

solidsnake · 2011-05-01 11:27:43

gurtid wrote:

well right or wrong i used this http://blog.anantshri.info/howto-add-ppa-in-debian/ to get the add-apt-repository working. it SEEMED to work although i can't get conkyforcasts working yet

Yes. I've done some searching and this is the only solution I can find. I'm going to go through the installation etc and then report back to see if I can get conkyForecast working.

EDIT: I've found this but can't get the GPG key for some reason. Would someone be willing to try?

Last edited by solidsnake (2011-05-01 12:48:20)

solidsnake · 2011-05-01 12:46:51

Update. I've managed to get the script displayed by my computer. At the moment, there are still some elements which aren't being recognised but I'll probably find the way around that tomorrow evening or something. If anyone could perhaps work from where I am, that would be great too. Essentially, I followed the guide above (using a different method to do the initial install), then I copied the conkyforecast config as it said and pasted in my XOAP details into the file. I got some initial text by using the conkyForecast.test.template in 'test'. Using the 'fontbased.template' in the 'example' folder produced nothing.

Sector11 · 2011-05-01 16:46:15

Actually I started a thread about this same subject: Conky Companions PPA

As far as I know all the scripts work except: "conkykeyring - 1.01" but it does install, thank goodness.. The latest conkyEmail, conkyGooglecalendar and I believe conkyGoodglereader require it as a dependency.

At the time I started that thread "conkykeyring" didn't exist, so I still use conkyEmail the regular way.

Other than the "google" apps I have "tested" them all in #! Statler, and the ones I still run are:

conkyEmail v.2.14
conkyKeyring v.1.01
conkyForecast v.2.20 - released yesterday! Since v2.18 it has included file: conkyForecast-SunsetSunriseCountdown.py

And ConkyMisc that doesn't report a version since it has unsupported conkyApps in it:

conkymisc/conkyText.py <<--- I use this
conkymisc/conkySlideshow.py --->> I do not use this
conkymisc/conkyLatLong.py <<--- I use this (on occasion to demonstrat)
conkymisc/conkyDaysDiff.py <<--- I use this
conkymisc/conkyDateDiff.py <<--- I use this

If you do not want to add PPA to your resources list you can use this link to get at the files: Conky Companions PPS (for Hardy)

Why Hardy? Simple, Mark builds for Hardy and if it works, it works through all versions. The different "Ubuntu versions" actually use the same file.

conkymisc/conkyDaysDiff & conkymisc/conkyDateDiff.py

and the others:

Have fun!

Sector11 · 2011-05-01 16:47:36

Roetsj wrote:

@ Solidsnake: the scripts of Kaivalgi are cool but, correct if I'm wrong, according to me PPA doesn't work for Statler. The second link to launchpad doesn't seem to work.

They work and you can add the PPA if you wish. See above.

Sector11 · 2011-05-01 17:07:57

solidsnake wrote:

Update. I've managed to get the script displayed by my computer. At the moment, there are still some elements which aren't being recognised but I'll probably find the way around that tomorrow evening or something. If anyone could perhaps work from where I am, that would be great too. Essentially, I followed the guide above (using a different method to do the initial install), then I copied the conkyforecast config as it said and pasted in my XOAP details into the file. I got some initial text by using the conkyForecast.test.template in 'test'. Using the 'fontbased.template' in the 'example' folder produced nothing.

Why not just grab the .deb from: ConkyCompanions PPA
and then click on the deb you have saved and install it?

solidsnake · 2011-05-01 17:50:21

Sector11 wrote:

solidsnake wrote:
Update. I've managed to get the script displayed by my computer. At the moment, there are still some elements which aren't being recognised but I'll probably find the way around that tomorrow evening or something. If anyone could perhaps work from where I am, that would be great too. Essentially, I followed the guide above (using a different method to do the initial install), then I copied the conkyforecast config as it said and pasted in my XOAP details into the file. I got some initial text by using the conkyForecast.test.template in 'test'. Using the 'fontbased.template' in the 'example' folder produced nothing.
Why not just grab the .deb from: ConkyCompanions PPA
and then click on the deb you have saved and install it?

Thanks for the advice Sector. I'll just replace the PPA code in the OP with the link and text you've given me. I guess I was making it way too much complicated than it needed to be. How I wish common sense prevailed in these times.. Really gets to me. Also, I'll take a look at your thread too so thanks for the link. While you're here, have you got any scripts I could add to the OP?

solidsnake

Roetsj · 2011-05-01 18:23:44

Thanks Solidsnake, Sector 11 and Gurtid! Lots of reading to do and afterwards some trial and error. When problems arise I'll be back, if okay with you guys.

Slowly but surely I'll be getting there big_smile

Last edited by Roetsj (2011-05-01 18:25:14)

solidsnake · 2011-05-01 18:30:22

Roetsj wrote:

Thanks Solidsnake, Sector 11 and Gurtid! Lots of reading to do and afterwards some trial and error. When problems arise I'll be back, if okay with you guys.
Slowly but surely I'll be getting there

No problem with me my friend. Come back to me whenever you like and I'll try to help you as best I can.

It's all a learning curve I guess. smile

anonymous · 2011-05-01 19:04:51

bumping to front page

Edit: I have now merged the two threads smile

Last edited by anonymous (2011-05-01 19:05:58)

solidsnake · 2011-05-01 19:13:30

anonymous wrote:

bumping to front page
Edit: I have now merged the two threads

No problem. smile Although, would it be possible to change the thread name to 'Conky scripts' as opposed to 'Conky Companions PPA'? That way people could find scripts better (not just Kai's).

anonymous · 2011-05-01 19:19:37

Well since these threads focused on Kai's conky scripts, I'd like to keep it like that.

If you want to share different scripts, feel free to make a separate thread for those.

Sector11 · 2011-05-02 02:17:03

anonymous wrote:

Well since these threads focused on Kai's conky scripts, I'd like to keep it like that.
If you want to share different scripts, feel free to make a separate thread for those.

And K's conky"Name" python apps (scripts) are found at Conky Companions PPA I think that this name is best.

Thanks for merging them, it makes sense.

Last edited by Sector11 (2011-05-02 02:17:37)

druakian · 2012-07-02 12:16:10

Edit: Ignore the following. Seems I had forgotten to reload the transmission-daemon on the remote host after resetting the settings.json file. sad

The Gotchas section for conkyTransmission asks you to turn off your

"rpc-authentication-required": true,

in the settings.json file when it doesn't need to be.

If you want to get conkyTransmission to update for a remote torrent box or even your own machine without having to turn off your rpc-authentication you need to edit the following line in the file.

/usr/share/conkytransmission/conkyTransmission.py: line 148

self.client = transmissionrpc.Client(self.options.server, self.options.port) #, self.options.username, self.options.password)

to

self.client = transmissionrpc.Client(self.options.server, self.options.port, self.options.username, self.options.password)

Then in your conky file you can use the -s -U -P switches like below.

 ${execi 5 conkyTransmission -s <ip or server address>  -p <transmission port: default 9091> -U <username> -P <password> --showsummary}

Took me a while to find where it was throwing me a 401 error. Hopefully this helps someone else having this issue. smile

Last edited by druakian (2012-07-02 13:36:54)

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