Conky Help

Chewie · 2010-12-04 20:19:06

Hmmm it does something weird, maybe the gmail script doesn't like my conky?

Unia · 2010-12-04 20:22:18

Post your script and conkyrc?

anonymous · 2010-12-04 20:23:31

Try putting this in your conky:

${execi 600 /path/to/gmailscript n}

Chewie · 2010-12-04 20:35:39

Okay so I threw and 'Emails:' In front of it and came up with¬

That's how is supposed to look?

And I know it works cause I just got a an update in my conky to '21' emails. (the forum replaies subscription emails) wink

anonymous · 2010-12-04 20:42:37

For just showing the number of emails then yes thats how its supposed to look.

Chewie · 2010-12-04 21:12:16

Okay, thats all I actually need anyways, thank you for all your help.

---------------------------------------------

Edit: I've moved and merged the discussion from Viauri's conky support request into our main Conky help thread.

--omns smile

friTTe · 2010-12-05 00:13:51

mmm tint...conky with g-mail...debian inside wallpaper...darkish..lovely big_smile

Unia · 2010-12-05 15:38:29

Who can help me getting a background and border to my conky?
I'm using a modified version of my previous lua script, but can't figure out how to change the background and border.
These are the original lines for the background and border:

draw_arectangle(0, 0, 200, 660, 20, 0x000000, 0.15, 0, 0x92CC00, 0.4)
draw_arectangle(1, 1, 198, 658, 18, 0x000000, 0.0, 2, 0x92CC00, 0.4)

How the original looks:

How it needs to be:

So the only things that have to change is the shape, width and length. I want it to look like my tint2. How can I do this?

EDIT: Took another go at it. The only thing that needs to change now is the width, but I just can get it to change.
Lines in lua script:

draw_arectangle(1, 1, 200, 766, 20, 0x000000, 0.15, 0, 0x92CC00, 0.4)
draw_arectangle(1, 0, 198, 770, 0, 0x000000, 0.15, 2, 0x92CC00, 0.4)

How it looks now:

EDIT2: Never mind, found it myself.

draw_arectangle(72, 1, 35, 766, 0, 0x000000, 0.15, 0, 0x92CC00, 0.4)
draw_arectangle(72, 0, 37, 770, 0, 0x000000, 0.15, 2, 0x92CC00, 0.4)

To see what it looks like, go to the December screenshot thread!

Last edited by Unia (2010-12-05 17:38:11)

Leeeeeevi · 2010-12-06 09:11:46

Hey all. I'm having a bit of trouble getting my horizontal conky to display correctly. For some reason the bar expands well below the text... but I can't see any reason why this is happening in my config file.

example:

my conkyrc:

 avoid flicker
double_buffer yes

#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys
own_window  yes

own_window_transparent no
own_window_type override
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
background yes

total_run_times 0

#borders
draw_borders no
border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0

#shades
draw_shades no

#position
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
alignment top_middle

#behaviour
update_interval 1
update_interval_on_battery 5

#colour
default_color  ecedee
#default_shade_color 101010
own_window_colour 191919

#font
use_xft yes
#font terminus:pixelsize=12
font sans:size=8

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

#to prevent window from moving
use_spacer yes
minimum_size 1366 15
maximum_size 1366 15
maximum_width 1366

# Network interface must have an ip address to be considered up
if_up_strictness address

TEXT
${alignc}${if_mpd_playing}${mpd_smart 50} ${color 606060}|${color}${endif}${kernel} ${color 606060}|${color} Uptime: ${uptime_short} ${color 606060}|${color} RAM: ${membar 7,60} ${color 606060} |${color} Root: ${fs_bar 7,60 /}  Home: ${fs_bar 7,60 /home} ${color 606060} |${color} Down: ${totaldown} Up: ${totalup}${color 606060}| ${color}Battery: ${battery_short BAT0} /  ${battery_time BAT0} ${color 606060}

any advice much appreciated!

Last edited by Leeeeeevi (2010-12-06 09:15:15)

pvsage · 2010-12-06 12:19:13

^ Have you tried reducing "minimum_size" and "maximum_size"? I'd try changing them to "1366 10".

EDIT: There's no "maximum_size" in conky, just "maximum_width". Maybe try "use_spacer no"?

Last edited by pvsage (2010-12-06 12:22:53)

Leeeeeevi · 2010-12-06 12:36:35

Yeah, I've tried changing all of those (I figured maximum_size probably wasn't a real variable but added it in anyway on the off chance that it just wasn't included on the conky variables page for whatever reason), none of them effect the vertical space taken up. Could've sworn that was how I fixed this issue last time it came up hmm (which was admittedly pretty long ago).
use_spacer no doesn't seem to do anything either.

pvsage · 2010-12-06 12:47:01

I think I see a space or two on the line after your text. Have you tried deleting that line entirely in a graphical editor like Gedit? (I know certain CLI editors like Nano insist on a new line character after the last line of text...)

Sector11 · 2010-12-06 13:27:48

minimum_size 1366 15
#maximum_size 1366 15
maximum_width 1366

maximum_size doesn't exist - it should in my opinion

and a few other changes that don't apply here: mpd and battery and it looks good:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16070765/full_levi.png

and changing it to:

minimum_size 1366 10

was even better.

Last edited by Sector11 (2010-12-06 13:33:57)

Sector11 · 2010-12-06 13:35:23

pvsage wrote:

I think I see a space or two on the line after your text. Have you tried deleting that line entirely in a graphical editor like Gedit? (I know certain CLI editors like Nano insist on a new line character after the last line of text...)

I missed that - I copied from the line after TEXT up ... it does work! smile

Leeeeeevi · 2010-12-06 13:39:19

pvsage wrote:

I think I see a space or two on the line after your text. Have you tried deleting that line entirely in a graphical editor like Gedit? (I know certain CLI editors like Nano insist on a new line character after the last line of text...)

success! (up until just then I had indeed been using nano)

Sector11 wrote:

and a few other changes that don't apply here: mpd and battery and it looks good:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16070765/full_levi.png

Weird- both the mpd and battery parts are working fine for me. Must just be differences between our systems. (eg BAT0 could be BAT1 for you, etc)

thanks for the help guys smile

Last edited by Leeeeeevi (2010-12-06 13:40:59)

Sector11 · 2010-12-06 14:10:10

Leeeeeevi wrote:

Weird- both the mpd and battery parts are working fine for me. Must just be differences between our systems. (eg BAT0 could be BAT1 for you, etc)
thanks for the help guys

Of course it works for you, I don't have mpd installed and I have a desktop, it's kinda heavy for my lap, and even more complications when I add the monitor and keyboard. lol

No problem, we do what we can.

Last edited by Sector11 (2010-12-06 14:12:42)

doicomehereoften · 2010-12-09 06:49:45

Hey guys! Been using #! 9.04 on my netbook since I got it about a year and a half ago and just installed Statler.

I've also never been interested in doing crazy things with my conky, but suddenly I find myself with the urge. It's mostly because of screenspace on the netbook. I find I can maximize my vertical real estate by moving tint2 to one side, but then I can't have the date and time since that doesn't rotate with the panel.

So, the solution I thought would work is to use conky to display the date and time, rotated 90*. To my dismay, this apparently requires some lua scripting, which I'm having trouble figuring out, even though I've copied stuff from different examples I was able to find on deviantart.

Here's my conkyrc:

# -- Conky settings -- #
background no
update_interval 1

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

override_utf8_locale yes

double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes

text_buffer_size 2048
imlib_cache_size 0

own_window_type panel
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,above
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_title text widget v1.2

border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0

alignment tl
minimum_size 20 594

# -- Graphics settings -- #
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no


# -- Lua load -- #
lua_load ~/location/of/vertical/text.lua
lua_draw_hook_post draw_text2

#at least one line (empty or not) after TEXT
TEXT

And the lua code that I've tried to modify:

require 'cairo'
--FUNCTION FOR INFOS TEXT , KERNEL ....
function conky_draw_text2()
    local h=0
    if conky_window ~=nil then h= conky_window.height end
    text_settings={
        --BEGIN OF PARAMETERS
--info:
        {text=conky_parse("${time %d %b %Y}$alignr${time %T}"),
        angle=90,
        font_name="Bitstream Vera Sans Mono",
        font_size=18,
        x=0,
        y=5,
        --09101a
        --715dba
        colour={0,0xa9a9a9,0}
        }  ,
        
    }
    
    
--------------END OF PARAMETERS----------------


    if conky_window == nil then return end
    if tonumber(conky_parse("$updates"))<3 then return end
    local cs = cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display, conky_window.drawable, conky_window.visual, conky_window.width, conky_window.height)
    cr = cairo_create (cs)
    
    for i,v in pairs(text_settings) do
        display_text(v)
    end
    
    cairo_destroy(cr)
    cairo_surface_destroy(cs)
end

Any hints, directions, or different code snippets are welcome!

Sector11 · 2010-12-09 13:23:06

doicomehereoften wrote:

Any hints, directions, or different code snippets are welcome!

OK, I get errors with that as well:

Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_draw_text2 execution failed: /home/sector11/conky/doicomehereoften.lua:32: attempt to call global 'display_text' (a nil value)
Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_draw_text2 execution failed: /home/sector11/conky/doicomehereoften.lua:32: attempt to call global 'display_text' (a nil value)
Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_draw_text2 execution failed: /home/sector11/conky/doicomehereoften.lua:32: attempt to call global 'display_text' (a nil value)
Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_draw_text2 execution failed: /home/sector11/conky/doicomehereoften.lua:32: attempt to call global 'display_text' (a nil value)

and not knowing LUA at all I can't help with that.

Where did you get this code I would like to se it at it's original location, maybe there is something you missed.

stocc · 2010-12-09 13:40:15

I don't know lua either, but it looks to me as though you've defined a function called conky_draw_text2, but you're then trying to call something called display_text. Perhaps you need to call conky_draw_text2? I'm not on a machine with conky at the moment, so I can't test it myself.

doicomehereoften · 2010-12-09 18:21:00

Thanks for looking at this guys!

The original is contained in the zip file here: http://fav.me/d2ssfrt

When you enlarge the image, you can see it faintly along the left edge of the screen, reporting the kernel & build. I'm trying to get that to display date and time, on the other side of the screen.

It does contain 3 conkyrc's to get all that running. The one that does the sideways text is conkyrc1.

Also, the lua file that comes with it is kind of long, so it's possible that there's something in the lua file that I should have copied over that I didn't. Not sure what that might be though.

Sector11 · 2010-12-09 19:10:46

doicomehereoften wrote:

Thanks for looking at this guys!
The original is contained in the zip file here: http://fav.me/d2ssfrt
When you enlarge the image, you can see it faintly along the left edge of the screen, reporting the kernel & build. I'm trying to get that to display date and time, on the other side of the screen.
It does contain 3 conkyrc's to get all that running. The one that does the sideways text is conkyrc1.
Also, the lua file that comes with it is kind of long, so it's possible that there's something in the lua file that I should have copied over that I didn't. Not sure what that might be though.

Well this is bad... it worked the first time....

so I did a

killall conky

and ran all three...

I'll contact wlourf and see what he can do, it's his script.
I'll be back

doicomehereoften · 2010-12-09 23:08:55

Update:

So I've been playing with this a little bit more.

stocc made a good call on the display_text thing. I found that it was the last function at the end of lua script I was copying from, so I added it to my lua scriipt and now I'm getting a different error. conky is claiming that there's an error at the line marked with a boatload of *'s in the below code. It's part of an if...then statement.

Here's the error message:

Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_draw_text2 execution failed: /home/jeremy/documents/cairostuff/attempt.lua:72: attempt to get length of field '?' (a number value)

Here's my new lua script:

require 'cairo'
--FUNCTION FOR INFOS TEXT , KERNEL ....
function conky_draw_text2()
    local h=0
    if conky_window ~=nil then h= conky_window.height end
    text_settings={
        --BEGIN OF PARAMETERS
--info:
        {text=conky_parse("${time %d %b %Y}$alignr${time %T}"),
        angle=90,
        font_name="Sans Serif",
        font_size=8,
        x=0,
        y=5,
        --09101a
        --715dba
        colour={0,0xa9a9a9,0}
        }  ,
        
    }
    
    
--------------END OF PARAMETERS----------------


    if conky_window == nil then return end
    if tonumber(conky_parse("$updates"))<3 then return end
    local cs = cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display, conky_window.drawable, conky_window.visual, conky_window.width, conky_window.height)
    cr = cairo_create (cs)
    
    for i,v in pairs(text_settings) do
        display_text(v)
    end
    
    cairo_destroy(cr)
    cairo_surface_destroy(cs)
end

function display_text(t)
    if t.text==nil then t.text="Conky is good for you !" end
    if t.x==nil then t.x = conky_window.width/2 end
    if t.y==nil then t.y = conky_window.height/2 end
    if t.colour==nil then t.colour={{1,0xFFFFFF,1}} end
    if t.font_name==nil then t.font_name="Free Sans" end
    if t.font_size==nil then t.font_size=14 end
    if t.angle==nil then t.angle=0 end
    if t.italic==nil then t.italic=false end
    if t.oblique==nil then t.oblique=false end
    if t.bold==nil then t.bold=false end
    if t.radial ~= nil then
        if #t.radial~=6 then 
            print ("error in radial table")
            t.radial=nil 
        end
    end
    if t.orientation==nil then t.orientation="ww" end
    if t.h_align==nil then t.h_align="l" end
    if t.v_align==nil then t.v_align="b" end    
    
    cairo_save(cr)
    cairo_translate(cr,t.x,t.y)
    cairo_rotate(cr,t.angle*math.pi/180)
    local slant = CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL
    local weight =CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL
    if t.italic then slant = CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_ITALIC end
    if t.oblique then slant = CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_OBLIQUE end
    if t.bold then weight = CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD end
    cairo_select_font_face(cr, t.font_name, slant,weight)
    cairo_set_font_size(cr,t.font_size)
    
    for i=1, #t.colour do    
        if #t.colour[i]~=3 then ************************************
            print ("error in color table")
            t.colour[i]={1,0xFFFFFF,1} 
        end
    end
    local te=cairo_text_extents_t:create()
    cairo_text_extents (cr,t.text,te)
    if #t.colour==1 then 
        cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(t.colour[1]))
    else
        local pat
        if t.radial==nil then
            local pts=linear_orientation(t,te)
            pat = cairo_pattern_create_linear (pts[1],pts[2],pts[3],pts[4])
        else
            pat = cairo_pattern_create_radial (t.radial[1],t.radial[2],t.radial[3],t.radial[4],t.radial[5],t.radial[6])
        end
        
        for i=1, #t.colour do
            cairo_pattern_add_color_stop_rgba (pat, t.colour[i][1], rgb_to_r_g_b(t.colour[i]))
        end
        cairo_set_source (cr, pat)
        cairo_pattern_destroy(pat)
    end
    
    local mx,my=0,0
    
    if t.h_align=="c" then
        mx=-te.width/2
    elseif t.h_align=="r" then
        mx=-te.width
    end
    if t.v_align=="m" then
        my=-te.height/2-te.y_bearing
    elseif t.v_align=="t" then
        my=-te.y_bearing
    end
    cairo_move_to(cr,mx,my)
    
    cairo_show_text(cr,t.text)
    cairo_stroke(cr)
    cairo_restore(cr)
end

The conkyrc is the same as from my previous post. I think this means I'm getting close....

glenmo · 2010-12-11 15:33:53

anyone know why my conky window is so wide, and how i can fix it? i've turned on borders so you can see it.

i've played with the maximum_width setting, and all it seems to do is push the text out of the box.

screenshot

conkyrc:

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

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

# fiddle with window
use_spacer none
use_xft yes

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# Minimum size of text area
#minimum_size 400 5
#maximum_width 400

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders yes  # usually no, but debugging the config so yes

uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
#stippled_borders 8

# border margins
#border_margin 4

# border width
#border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white

#own_window_colour #000000
#own_window_transparent yes

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

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 0
gap_y 0

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

override_utf8_locale no
xftfont Terminus:size=9
xftalpha 0.5

TEXT

${offset 240}${color slate grey}${time %a, } ${color }${time %e %B %G}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}${time %Z,    }${color }${time %H:%M:%S}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}UpTime: ${color }$uptime
${offset 240}${color slate grey}Kern:${color }$kernel
${offset 240}${color slate grey}CPU:${color } $cpu% ${acpitemp}C
${offset 240}${cpugraph 20,130 000000 ffffff}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}Load: ${color }$loadavg
${offset 240}${color slate grey}Processes: ${color }$processes  
${offset 240}${color slate grey}Running:   ${color }$running_processes

${offset 240}${color slate grey}Highest CPU:
${offset 240}${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1}${top_mem cpu 1}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top name 2}${top cpu 2}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top name 3}${top cpu 3}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top name 4}${top cpu 4}

${offset 240}${color slate grey}Highest MEM:
${offset 240}${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1}${top_mem mem 1}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2}${top_mem mem 2}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3}${top_mem mem 3}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 4}${top_mem mem 4}

${offset 240}${color slate grey}MEM:  ${color } $memperc% $mem/$memmax
${offset 240}${membar 3,100}
#${offset 240}${color slate grey}SWAP: ${color }$swapperc% $swap/$swapmax
#${offset 240}${swapbar 3,100}

${offset 240}${color slate grey}ROOT:    ${color }${fs_free /}/${fs_size /}
${offset 240}${fs_bar 3,100 /}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}HOME:  ${color }${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home}
${offset 240}${fs_bar 3,100 /home}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}TMP:  ${color }${fs_free /tmp}/${fs_size /tmp}
${offset 240}${fs_bar 3,100 /tmp}
#${offset 240}${color slate grey}MUSIC:  ${color }${fs_free /home/glen/mnt/music}/${fs_size /home/glen/mnt/music}
#${offset 240}${fs_bar 3,100 /home/glen/mnt/music}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}NET:  ${hr 2}$color
#${offset 240}${color}Up: ${color }${upspeed eth1} k/s
#${offset 240}${upspeedgraph eth1 20,130 000000 ffffff}
#${offset 240}${color}Down: ${color }${downspeed eth1}k/s${color}
#${offset 240}${downspeedgraph eth1 20,130 000000 ffffff}
${offset 240}${color}Up: ${color }${upspeed eth0} k/s
${offset 240}${upspeedgraph eth0 20,130 000000 ffffff}
${offset 240}${color}Down: ${color }${downspeed eth0}k/s${color}
${offset 240}${downspeedgraph eth0 20,130 000000 ffffff}
#it was a good idea, but need to learn netstat more
#${offset 240}${color slate grey}netstat: ${hr 2}$color
#${offset 240}${execi 30 netstat -an | fold -w25}
#${offset 240}${color slate grey}LOG: ${hr 2}$color
#${offset 240}${execi 30 tail -n3 /var/log/messages | fold -w25}

wlourf · 2010-12-11 16:27:31

@doicomehereoften

Hello,

I think the mistake is here, you wrote (line 17) :

colour={0,0xa9a9a9,0}

(a table of 3 elements)
But you should write :

colour={{0,0xa9a9a9,0}}

a table containing a table of three elements, so you can use gradients like this (blue to red):

colour={{0,0x0000FF,1},{1,0xFF0000,1}}

Be careful, the number after the colour is the opacity , 0 = transparent, 1=opaque

I think you should keep the script with the little HOWTO at the beginning, it can be helpful wink or check this page for more explanations on the way I use colours in tables (this is only my way of doing it in my scripts , not an "official way" ! ),
http://u-scripts.blogspot.com/2010/06/text-widget.html

HTH ;-)

Sector11 · 2010-12-11 17:25:32

glenmo wrote:

anyone know why my conky window is so wide, and how i can fix it? i've turned on borders so you can see it.
i've played with the maximum_width setting, and all it seems to do is push the text out of the box.

Remove all of these:

${offset 240}

Last edited by Sector11 (2010-12-11 17:30:00)

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