Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[SomeGuyDude]

Damn. Silly me, I didn't actually try it with conky. It works just fine on command line like you said and NOTHING in conky..

EDIT: I just realized, it says

sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

and the curl script works fine in the BASH command line!

ok, who knows how to get conky to run stuff using bash instead of sh?

EDIT: again: I tried adding

bash -c

in front of the curl statement. Still doesn't work.

The way I got it to work was I randomly deleted some string that was in one of the examples I got. I took Crinos' idea:

${execpi 3600 curl --silent 'http://dailyatheistquote.com/' | sed '{:q;N;s/\n/ /g;t q}'| grep -o '<div id="quote">[^<]*'| sed -e 's/<div id=\"quote\">[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//' -e 's/ $//g' -e 's/\&quot;/\"/' | fold -sw 60 | sed -e 's/^/\${offset 200}/' -e 's/\&quot;/\"/'}

And I quite literally just deleted the part in red. I have no idea what that piece does, but I deleted it and it made it work. Dunno how to make the longer code work, though.

[dk75]

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

and uninstall "dash" as "sh" then it will be linked to "bash"

[dylan_newb]

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT




${offset 240}${color darkgrey}UpTime: ${color }$uptime
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}Kern:${color }$kernel
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}CPU:${color } $cpu%
${offset 240}${color #1833d0}${cpugraph 20,130 ffffff 1833d0}
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}Load: ${color }$loadavg
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}Processes: ${color }$processes
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}Running: ${color }$running_processes

${offset 240}${color darkgrey}Highest CPU:
${offset 240}${color #1833d0} ${top name 1}${top cpu 1}
${offset 240}${color ffffff} ${top name 2}${top cpu 2}
${offset 240}${color ffffff} ${top name 3}${top cpu 3}
${offset 240}${color ffffff} ${top name 4}${top cpu 4}

${offset 240}${color darkgrey}Highest MEM:
${offset 240}${color #1833d0} ${top_mem name 1}${top_mem mem 1}
${offset 240}${color ffffff} ${top_mem name 2}${top_mem mem 2}
${offset 240}${color ffffff} ${top_mem name 3}${top_mem mem 3}
${offset 240}${color ffffff} ${top_mem name 4}${top_mem mem 4}

${offset 240}${color darkgrey}MEM: ${color } $memperc% $mem
${offset 240}${color 1833d0}${membar 3,100}
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}SWAP: ${color }$swapperc% $swap
${offset 240}${color 1833d0}${swapbar 3,100}

${offset 240}${color darkgrey}ROOT: ${color ffffff}${fs_free /}/${fs_size /}
${offset 240}${color 1833d0}${fs_bar 3,100 /}
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}HOME: ${color }${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home}
${offset 240}${color 1833d0}${fs_bar 3,100 /home}
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}80 Gig: ${color }${fs_free /media/mynewdrive}/${fs_size /media/mynewdrive}
${offset 240}${color 1833d0}${fs_bar 3,100 /media/mynewdrive}
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}NET:
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}Up:${color }${upspeed eth0} k/s${color darkgrey} Total:${color }${totalup eth0}
${offset 240}${color #1833d0}${upspeedgraph eth0 20,130 000000 1833d0}
${offset 240}${color darkgrey}Down:${color }${downspeed eth0}k/s${color darkgrey} Total:${color }${totaldown eth0}
${offset 240}${color #1833d0}${downspeedgraph eth0 20,130 000000 1833d0}
${offset 240}${color darkgrey} IP: ${color }${addr eth0}

[dmillerct]

But you have a nice combo too. After all what's a "0" among friends!

10001 and 1001

or is that

1001 and 10001 ;D

CHIMO!
Bruce

I was actually quite pleased by that myself.

[deh69]

The way I got it to work was I randomly deleted some string that was in one of the examples I got. I took Crinos' idea:

${execpi 3600 curl --silent 'http://dailyatheistquote.com/' | sed '{:q;N;s/\n/ /g;t q}'| grep -o '<div id="quote">[^<]*'| sed -e 's/<div id=\"quote\">[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//' -e 's/ $//g' -e 's/\&quot;/\"/' | fold -sw 60 | sed -e 's/^/\${offset 200}/' -e 's/\&quot;/\"/'}

And I quite literally just deleted the part in red. I have no idea what that piece does, but I deleted it and it made it work. Dunno how to make the longer code work, though.

i got mine working with this:

${execi 86400 curl -s 'http://tinybuddha.com'|sed '{:q;N;s/\n/ /g;t q}'|grep -o '<div class="entry">[^<]*'|sed 's/<div class=\"entry\">[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//'|fold -sw 70}

[proxess]

Well it worked before I tried to modify it to support proxess's colorizing. (which would go well on CH! I might add.) so I figured I munged up the code somehow.

Init... it should be there...

Post here your broken clock_mod.lua, let's troubleshoot it!

[SomeGuyDude]

i got mine working with this:

${execi 86400 curl -s 'http://tinybuddha.com'|sed '{:q;N;s/\n/ /g;t q}'|grep -o '<div class="entry">[^<]*'|sed 's/<div class=\"entry\">[[:blank:]]*//;s/[[:blank:]]*$//'|fold -sw 70}

TinyBuddha isn't a problem. We're running into issues with DailyAtheistQuote, trying to parse the quotation marks (they show up as " if you just flip the URLs), not to mention getting the quote AND the author.

[Bruce M.]

What do you think I do for a living? ...construction? .... Lifeguard maybe?

Hey, treat the "construction" word with respect OK!

Ever hear of a Construction Engineering Technician?

Well I went from CE Tech to CE Tech (Conky Engineering Tech) so that must make you a - ummmm - lifeg... computer tech of some type.

In other words: I haven't got a clue!

CHIMO!
Bruce

[Bruce M.]

I waited around for that 10,000 post and I drive to school and I missed it. anyway I wanted to set up a horizontal conky on the bottom. I have a quick question about setting up the text alignment to the bottom left or the bottom middle. If i do it in the middle i will have to do positive and negative ${voffset}'s and ${offset}'s i think. If i set it to the bottom right i will just have to use positive ${offset}'s. I think i got that right. if its too confusing just fail me.

I'd start - bl (bottom-left) and then use the ${goto xx}, ${offset} and ${voffset xx} commands to position the output.

But that's me, others might do it differently.

Have a nice day.
Bruce

[Bruce M.]

And I quite literally just deleted the part in red. I have no idea what that piece does, but I deleted it and it made it work. Dunno how to make the longer code work, though.

Wow! You're good, If I deleted what "I have no idea what that piece does" I'd be left with:

${execpi 3600}

Bruce