Conky v1.9 Thread

ragamatrix · 2014-02-27 17:45:54

@Sector11 Nice to screen you ! Conky it's nice, we can learn laguages in the same time... cf-->French weather conkys

Sector11 · 2014-02-27 18:47:03

ragamatrix wrote:

@Sector11 Nice to screen you ! Conky it's nice, we can learn laguages in the same time... cf-->French weather conkys

Well you did say: You're welcome, with pleasure...??
I took the ?? to mean: is that right?

Thanks for that link ... bookmarked

ragamatrix · 2014-02-27 20:55:12

yes ?? means right was my 1st thinking because I'm not sure of vocabulary in English, Canadian, Swiss, French, Spanish, Italian, sometimes same words means something completly different. In French we call that "faux-amis" which mean in English "wrong-friends" I don't have an example but if a French man says something to a Canadian Girl same words can mean something else...

photonucleon · 2014-02-27 21:43:27

^ It's not a super good example, but 'car' in English is 'voiture' in French, while 'car' in French is 'because' in English...

stoicho · 2014-02-28 20:46:08

My goal is to maintain a simple text file and have conky use those values with the execbar variable. The text file would look like this:

apples 25
pears 40
oranges 88

The idea is to show progress on different tasks. So Conky would output nice progress bars using those numbers.

I know how to use a simple python script to give conky the value it needs, but I don't know what to do if I have more than 1 value.

Am I missing something easy within conky?

Sector11 · 2014-03-01 00:20:58

stoicho wrote:

My goal is to maintain a simple text file and have conky use those values with the execbar variable. The text file would look like this:
apples 25
pears 40
oranges 88
The idea is to show progress on different tasks. So Conky would output nice progress bars using those numbers.
I know how to use a simple python script to give conky the value it needs, but I don't know what to do if I have more than 1 value.
Am I missing something easy within conky?

Lost me ... can you show a rough example?

Sector11 · 2014-03-01 00:40:27

The Modern Conky Grandfather Clock

I have had this image for quite a while ... ... and an idea of how to use it in a conky.

Today I did it ... with some very basic GIMP skills, one of the original "Chronograph" LUA clocks (it does 12 / 24 hours), draw-bg.lua to put a shaded circle in the centre and a cut down version of Teo's weather.com script.

From the stroke of midnight until 6am it says "Good Morning!" and from then until 18:00 it says "Good Day!" at which time it changes to "Good Evening!"

Last edited by Sector11 (2014-03-01 00:41:26)

stoicho · 2014-03-01 00:42:06

So let's say I have collected 50% of the apples I want. So I can do a python script like this:

#!/usr/bin/python 
print 50

Then, to show the 50% as a progress meter over in conky:

Apples: ${exec python test.py}% ${execbar python test.py}

This works fine of course, but I want to track more than 1 thing. I could make a whole bunch of scripts, each for apples, oranges, pears etc, but I want to be able to just update one file:

apples 25
pears 40
oranges 88

So I'm trying to figure out how to get each execbar to look for a different value in the data file.

Sector11 · 2014-03-01 00:44:06

photonucleon wrote:

^ It's not a super good example, but 'car' in English is 'voiture' in French, while 'car' in French is 'because' in English...

I thought: parce que = because

Sector11 · 2014-03-01 01:13:46

stoicho wrote:

So I'm trying to figure out how to get each execbar to look for a different value in the data file.

OH ... I can see where an idea stolen from Teo's weather scripts will do that ... no python needed:

text file: fruit

apples
65
pears
40
oranges
88

Conky:

default_bar_size 125 10
update_interval 1
TEXT

Apples${goto 60}${color6}${execbar sed -n '2p' /media/5/Conky/fruit} ${exec sed -n '2p' /media/5/Conky/fruit}${color}
Pears${goto 60}${color6}${execbar sed -n '4p' /media/5/Conky/fruit} ${exec sed -n '4p' /media/5/Conky/fruit}${color}
Oranges${goto 60}${color6}${execbar sed -n '6p' /media/5/Conky/fruit} ${exec sed -n '6p' /media/5/Conky/fruit}${color}

2p, 4p & 6p ... are the line numbers to read.

Last edited by Sector11 (2014-03-01 01:25:57)

Sector11 · 2014-03-01 01:21:18

You could also do it this way:

Conky:

default_bar_size 125 10
update_interval 1
TEXT

${exec sed -n '1p' /media/5/Conky/fruit}${goto 60}${color6}${execbar sed -n '2p' /media/5/Conky/fruit} ${exec sed -n '2p' /media/5/Conky/fruit}${color}
${exec sed -n '3p' /media/5/Conky/fruit}${goto 60}${color6}${execbar sed -n '4p' /media/5/Conky/fruit} ${exec sed -n '4p' /media/5/Conky/fruit}${color}
${exec sed -n '5p' /media/5/Conky/fruit}${goto 60}${color6}${execbar sed -n '6p' /media/5/Conky/fruit} ${exec sed -n '6p' /media/5/Conky/fruit}${color}

So if the first fruit, apples, changes to grapes ... BINGO:

Also maybe execi and execibar with an update interval would be easier on CPU usage, but changes wouldn't be instant.

@ TEO - Thank you again my friend.

Last edited by Sector11 (2014-03-01 01:24:27)

dk75 · 2014-03-01 08:41:47

stoicho wrote:

So let's say I have collected 50% of the apples I want. So I can do a python script like this:
#!/usr/bin/python 
print 50
Then, to show the 50% as a progress meter over in conky:
Apples: ${exec python test.py}% ${execbar python test.py}
This works fine of course, but I want to track more than 1 thing. I could make a whole bunch of scripts, each for apples, oranges, pears etc, but I want to be able to just update one file:
apples 25
pears 40
oranges 88
So I'm trying to figure out how to get each execbar to look for a different value in the data file.

Why Python?
If you know Python then why to ask how read file line by line and compare strings.
If you don't know then you looking for someone to write script for you.

Then again, why Python?

PS: http://bit.ly/1odm6rW and http://bit.ly/1odmmqZ and many other Python tutorials

stoicho · 2014-03-01 12:03:09

Sector11 wrote:

Also maybe execi and execibar with an update interval would be easier on CPU usage, but changes wouldn't be instant.
@ TEO - Thank you again my friend.

Thanks so much - that's exactly what I was aiming for!

All I know of Python is that little script I found, that being the only way I could find to do what I wanted.

Sector11 · 2014-03-01 12:40:58

stoicho wrote:

Thanks so much - that's exactly what I was aiming for!
All I know of Python is that little script I found, that being the only way I could find to do what I wanted.

You're welcome. Teo lead the way!

What you know about python is that much more than I know.

boisei0 · 2014-03-01 14:15:49

Nothing better than thinking about a new Conky while unboxing a new pc
Will post some screenshots when I'm done installing CrunchBang.

Sector11 · 2014-03-01 14:36:17

boisei0 wrote:

Nothing better than thinking about a new Conky while unboxing a new pc
Will post some screenshots when I'm done installing CrunchBang.

Looking forward to it!

TeoBigusGeekus · 2014-03-02 16:17:01

Sector11 wrote:

@ TEO - Thank you again my friend.

I'll fix that for you:

Sector11 wrote:

@ SED - Thank you again my friend.

Sector11 · 2014-03-02 16:26:40

^ Well said!

boisei0 · 2014-03-05 19:33:47

It took me a bit longer and it's still a work in progress, but anyway. New computer, new conky elements. Used MrPeachy's Chronograph with Didier-T's edits as a base. Still to come: world weather using YAWS.

lionhead · 2014-03-06 17:41:00

i have a little problem with my script. the second part works but the first part (toi==nasa) will not work. what's wrong?

this function only downloads the image.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
if toi=="nasa" then -- #################################################
------------------------------------------------------------------------

local nasa_file=folder1.."nasa.jpg"
local nasa_url=get_image()

	-- download image only once a day (at predefined time)
	if os.date("%H:%M") == '17:46' then

 	 local updates = tonumber(conky_parse('${updates}'))
	 if (math.mod(updates, iv) == 0) then
	  print("downloading 'nasa-image of the day'")
	  os.execute("wget  -q -O "..nasa_file..' "'..nasa_url..'"')
	 end -- of update

	end -- os.date
	
------------------------------------------------------------------------
elseif toi=="cont" then -- #############################################
------------------------------------------------------------------------

	local updates = tonumber(conky_parse('${updates}'))
	if (math.mod(updates, iv) == 0) then
	  print("-----------------")
	  print("downloading image")
	  print("-----------------")
	  -- remove old version before downloading a new version of the image
	  os.execute("rm -f "..img_file.." && wget  -q -O "..img_file..' "'..url..'"')
	  ------------------------------------------------------------------
	end	-- update interval

------------------------------------------------------------------------
end -- of toi ##########################################################
------------------------------------------------------------------------

edit: i solved the problem.

Last edited by lionhead (2014-03-06 17:50:13)

ragamatrix · 2014-03-10 14:32:41

Hi all;
Here's a new idea in an electronic music theme conky. I'm just begining with the tangostudio distribution mixed with #! waldorf repos.

When I'll find more ideas to full the machine I'll post.

Sector11 · 2014-03-10 14:58:11

ragamatrix wrote:

Hi all;
Here's a new idea in an electronic music theme conky. I'm just begining with the tangostudio distribution mixed with #! waldorf repos.
http://s21.postimg.org/mjn596sr7/conkymachine.jpg
When I'll find more ideas to full the machine I'll post.

WoW! awesome. That's really nice! Looking forward to seeing the finished stereo.

lionhead · 2014-03-10 16:00:41

hello

do you have an idea why this happens: http://postimg.org/image/rmy3nd2gv/

i also display other webcams. but they look good i do not have an idea why this image is upside-down?!

regards, alex

Sector11 · 2014-03-10 16:18:03

lionhead wrote:

hello
do you have an idea why this happens: http://postimg.org/image/rmy3nd2gv/
i also display other webcams. but they look good i do not have an idea why this image is upside-down?!
regards, alex

You need to select the same in both images.

lionhead · 2014-03-10 17:00:54

whoops

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The Modern Conky Grandfather Clock

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