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Thanks guy's

It does look really nice ! And yes I'm loving Arch, like I said I wish I had gotten involved with it a long time ago !
Anyway great to hear from you all and thanks once again for the...

Hi All,

I have good news ! I've not had much time to play but I'm getting there, I have taken all your tips and tried different things
and now I've settled on Arch-Manjaro with gnome, it's very...

Mister-e2
If you are using the standalone version please
delete the conkywx file in: home/major/.config first then,

Please run this command in your terminal !
...

I can only laugh at myself,
Arch with gnome-shell wow what a combo!
I'm going to need a desktop for Conky :-)

I've had two try's so far the first go was "I don't know" (head scratch)
but the...

It begins ! I have started to mess with Arch !
it's not easy when you do't know anything but I can tell you
it's coming soon !

greets Sean

Hi Param,

Thanks for trying for me, I copied that line and replaced mine with it and adjusted
the position to suit, it's at line 79 in the screenshot.

I think that's why we love conky and all...

Hi Param,
Here's the rc file and the template:


conky.config = {

--out_to_x = false,
--out_to_console = true,

Hi Param,

I think it's a conky 1.1.0 thing or Ubuntu
What worked just fine in the old 1.9 version, does not in the new.

Thanks for taking a look and if you do find some king of god like hack...

Hi Paramvir,

debug report attached

Cheer Sean

Hi Paramvir,

Thanks for your help.

I had to change to this to get it to display something:



I didn't touch anything else and it was the only conky being called !

With the backgrounds,

Colors:
If I use an in between value like 0.7 it's a no go but using a 1 it works !
that's strange behavior !

Param what do you make of all that ? I think it's something...

After a little cosmetic work now it's begining to look really good !

no daynight function
It's still spitting out this:
conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed:...

Third try after a reboot:

second result after changing the window settings to:

own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_hints = 'below,sticky,undecorated,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
...

Hi Paramvir,

Results of the first run with "window type changed from orverride to normal:

Hi Guys,

it looks like this now :
${lua main -n daynight -s 150 -p 80, 1200 }

but sadly still not working.
it will display in the correct place by using a space after the comma like this -p...

Hi Tommy,

ok these are my settings from the top part of the .conf file:

default_wx=2
darkSkyLoc='Dresden,Saxony'
# historyID=ISACHSEN18
Location='position'
icao_id=EDDC...

Hi Paremvir,

Sorry I didn't get back to you, been busy working.
I'm all good thanks for asking ! ;)

As you have read, I've changed to conky 1.10 and I'm using the stand alone version
to get...

Hi Tommy

I have compared the two and they are the same !
thanks anyway, further investigations, my friend tells me he used "Bleachbit" (oh dear! why ?)
This program can break a lot of things in...

Hi CavsFan,

I have solved the root problem by using the standalone version saved to my home folder !
It was easy to do, I just had to change the file paths and let the magic roll :guitar:
So...

Hi Tommy,

Yes mate he has everything he needs because I did it all for him.
His entire PC is based on mine including Ubuntu gnome 16.04
I must admit, his has an old hard drive at 9200-rpm...

Hi Guy's,

The convert.lua script works if you haven't already changed the syntax but trying this on
one that I have manually changed causes an error:

This is my manual conversion:

So I...

Hi Guy's,

Once again thanks for your input !
I have made loads of progress and finally got it all going :p

I must admit my first attempt was on an old 15" laptop plus too slow as well !
So I...

Hi Tommy,

Thanks for your input ! I have made some progress.

Firstly the path problem !
By experimenting with the path in my conkyrc
using a shorter path it works !
The path now looks like...

Hi guy's,

I took your advice and updated conky-all to the latest version and changed the syntax
in my conkyrc to the new syntax for conky-all 1.10 version.

Added templates and a new call-up
...