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rstrcogburn

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From: The Wild West

Registered: 2010-06-12

Posts: 1,796

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billboard - an ascii hostname generator using conky/figlet

Hey yall, this is a little ascii hostname generator I've been working on using figlet/conky.  Hope yall enjoy it as much as I have.

## INSTRUCTIONS

• copy the code to a text file in your <home>/bin/ named "billboard"

(from terminal)

• "chmod +x billboard" to make it executable

• "source ~/.profile" to make it available

(from run command)

• billboard

*The script will generate a .billboardrc on firstrun that you can tweak just like any other .conkyrc.  Add "billboard &" to your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh for a billboard on startup.

*You may have to log out then back in to get it into your openbox variables completely
cheers;)

#!/bin/bash 
#
# billboard - an ascii hostname generator using conky/figlet
#
# by Rooster Cogburn <rstrcogburn(at)gmail.com>
# Copyright (C) 2010 Rooster Cogburn
#
# Licensed under the GNU GPLV3 license
#
# rcfile: $HOME/.billboardrc
#
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------

# create .billboardrc unless present
BILLBOARDRC=$HOME/.billboardrc
if [ ! -f $BILLBOARDRC ]; then
(
cat <<'EOF'
##############################################
#  Settings
##############################################
# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont Mono:size=8
xftalpha 1
text_buffer_size 2048

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 80
#maximum_width 1024

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
#stippled_borders 0

# border margins
#border_margin 0

# border width
#border_width 0

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white 
#default_shade_color black
#default_outline_color black 
#own_window_colour black

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment middle_middle
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

gap_x 0
gap_y 0

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

uppercase no

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none

TEXT
EOF
) > $BILLBOARDRC
fi

conky -c $BILLBOARDRC -t '${exec hostname | figlet}'

exit 0

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... and a kind word.  -Duke

benj1

Wiki Wizard

From: Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 1,084

Re: billboard - an ascii hostname generator using conky/figlet

very nice

although i got quite excited at being able to use bash functions in a conkyrc

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