Conky Help

guriinii · 2010-02-20 23:30:52

I disabled compositing and tried again. It works but I don't have transparent windows. Is there another way?
Oh.. and how do I set up different conky's?

anonymous · 2010-02-20 23:36:53

Multiple conkys:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/41049/#p41049

mrpeachy · 2010-02-20 23:39:08

pvsage wrote:

"own_window no" plus "own_window_type desktop" is not compatible with compositing.

good to know. I rarely tinker with the settings part of conky. I just use own_window yes all the time.
Is there any reason I might want to set it to no?

anonymous · 2010-02-20 23:52:20

If you have "use own_window yes" and you try minimizing all windows, conky will minimize too.

benhee · 2010-03-03 18:07:03

Hi
I would like to put a title in conky, with the #! logo, but I can't get the hash "#" to print.
I think I know why because of the use of #. I've looked through the examples of other conkys, but can't see what I'm missing.
Used a workaround by putting the title on my wallpaper, looks good, but thats not the point, will not settle 'til its in my conky!
else I'll scweam & scweam. Anybody help?

pvsage · 2010-03-03 18:12:55

${exec echo '#!'}

Last edited by pvsage (2010-03-03 18:14:11)

benhee · 2010-03-03 18:39:00

pvsage

Thanks, so sweet, will strive to study and conky deeper.

Now just need Mr M. Johnson to sought out the England RFU midfield, and my life is complete.

benj1 · 2010-03-04 00:15:23

you could also just escape it

\#!

pvsage · 2010-03-04 01:11:38

^ Just tried it - Conky prints the backslash and parses the pound sign as a comment.

anonymous · 2010-03-04 01:18:13

It works for me:

Make sure you use a backslash not forward slash.

Last edited by anonymous (2010-03-04 01:18:54)

pvsage · 2010-03-04 01:37:25

Well that's just odd.
vM3E4Zg

@benj1 & anonymous - Maybe we're using different versions of Conky? I have the one from the #! repos.

Last edited by pvsage (2010-03-04 01:57:43)

anonymous · 2010-03-04 02:05:23

I have the one from the Arch repos.

BTW you can try using the conky from this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~norsetto/+archive/ppa

Last edited by anonymous (2010-03-04 02:12:41)

benj1 · 2010-03-04 02:06:47

could be, im on 1.8, i was itching to try out lua smile

pvsage · 2010-03-04 02:22:14

Unless MoC support has been fixed in the latest Conky, I'm happy with 1.7.1.1.

vrkalak · 2010-03-04 04:18:35

benj1 wrote:

you could also just escape it
\#!

I did as advised ... and added the " \#! " and it didn't work. Everything after the '#' wasn't there. sad
So, I again went in to Conky Config and removed only the "\" left in the #! .... and it worked!!

My Conky now has " #! Crunchbang/Linux 9.04 " in the title position. tongue

Last edited by vrkalak (2010-03-04 04:20:17)

Liu Anshan · 2010-03-07 08:17:45

I'm having a little trouble getting my my battery bar to draw, when i just call $(battery_bar} it seems to draw properly, but if i try to call ${battery_bar 8,90 bat0} it draws the bar the right size, but doesn't fill the bar. Any tips? I might just be doing it wrong. Here's the section from my conky config and and a screen shot of what's happening.

TEXT
SYSTEM INFO:
Temp: ${acpitemp}c ${goto 160} Swap usage:$swap/$swapmax ${goto 360} ${battery_bar} 
Battery: ${battery_bar} ${goto 160} Disk usage:${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${goto 360}
Uptime:$uptime ${goto 160} CPU-2 usage:${cpu cpu1}% ${goto 360}
RAM:$mem/$memmax ${goto 160} CPU-2 usage:${cpu cpu2}% 
${battery_bar}

arpinux · 2010-03-07 09:17:37

hi Liu Anshan, try ${battery_bar 8,90 BAT0} (uppercase) smile

Liu Anshan · 2010-03-07 09:50:57

Awesome, thanks, that sorted it out nicely. Didn't realize it was case sensitive.

guriinii · 2010-03-08 22:27:25

Hi,

I need some help with my calendar layout. I took the calendar bit from this conky: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/57398/#p57398

Changed the font and then the dates went out of alignment with the days:
http://omploader.org/vM3J6MQ
tM3J6MQ

here is my conkyrc

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Vibrocentric:size=25
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 500 500
maximum_width 1000
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
alignment top_left
gap_x 12
gap_y 12
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
##############################################
#  Output
##############################################
TEXT
SYSTEM INFO:
${font Vibrocentric:size=14}Host: guriinii@$nodename  
${font Vibrocentric:size=14}RAM: $mem/$memmax  
${font Vibrocentric:size=14}Disk usage: ${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} 
${font Vibrocentric:size=14}CPU usage: ${cpu cpu0}%

${font Vibrocentric:size=60}${time %H}h${font Vibrocentric:size=50}${time %M}m${font Vibrocentric :size=40}${time %S}s
${font Vibrocentric :size=15}${color ffffff}${execpi 600 DJS=`date +%_d`; cal | sed '1d' | sed '/./!d' | sed 's/$/                     /' | fold -w 21 | sed -n '/^.\{21\}/p' | sed 's/^/ /' | sed /" $DJS "/s/" $DJS "/" "'${color red}'"$DJS"'${color ffffff}'" "/}

This is past my skill level, can anyone help?

arpinux · 2010-03-08 22:47:00

hi guriinii,
as your font is not a "mono" one, the calendar appears with offsets. that's normal hmm
you Have to use "mono" style fonts as explained here : http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/?page_id=87 smile
you don't need to use "mono" fonts in all your conky, just for the calendar..

pvsage · 2010-03-08 23:12:50

What arpinux said. The `cal` command assumes a monospaced font. Only way around this would be to write a shell script with seven ${goto n}'s per calendar line, which essentially serves a similar function to tables in a word processing document.

guriinii · 2010-03-08 23:30:58

Thats a shame, thanks for the info.

How would I put the current month and year above the calendar? I've been playing with 'date' and 'cal' but I've hit a wall.

anonymous · 2010-03-08 23:43:52

Put this above your calendar (in conky):

${alignc}${time %B %Y}

guriinii · 2010-03-09 09:58:19

Ahhh, ok

Thank you anonymous.

guriinii · 2010-03-09 21:58:06

I want to put an RSS feed quote of the day into conky. I've been looking at some info but I don't really know where to start. I don't know how RSS feeds really work, especially with conky. I'm lost sad

Does anyone know a definitive guide, or anything?

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