Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[dmillerct]

That's what I was thinking.

I think you have to use feh to enable transparency in KDE. I have yet to experiment with KDE so I can't be sure but other people on this forum said something to that effect.

[mobilediesel]

Ok CERT is working now but lifehacker is broke:

~/Conky/Scripts$ sh ~/Conky/Scripts/conky-rss.sh http://lifehacker.com/tag/top/index.xml 5|sed 's/\(.\{1,50\}\)\(.*\)/\1/'
/home/dmiller/Conky/Scripts/conky-rss.sh: 28: [[: not found
tail: $[5]: invalid number of lines
head: $[5: invalid number of lines

conky-rss.sh has been updated again. Next? hehe

[dmillerct]

conky-rss.sh has been updated again. Next? hehe

Nothing from me. That worked great. Thanks so much.

[mobilediesel]

I was wondering about that

I don't remember what problem was caused by using ~ but it annoyed me at the time.

Nothing from me. That worked great. Thanks so much.

Maybe I can come up with yet another calendar script!

Hmmm.. maybe the Mayan calendar.. with a countdown-to-doomsday clock.

The only end-of-the-world prediction that will get more accurate with time is the one describing the sun running out of fuel and expanding before its death, taking the inner planets with it.

[dmillerct]

I don't remember what problem was caused by using ~ but it annoyed me at the time.



Maybe I can come up with yet another calendar script!

Hmmm.. maybe the Mayan calendar.. with a countdown-to-doomsday clock.

The only end-of-the-world prediction that will get more accurate with time is the one describing the sun running out of fuel and expanding before its death, taking the inner planets with it.

Your a ray of sunshine tonight aren't ya.

[mobilediesel]

Your a ray of sunshine tonight aren't ya.

Heh. Well some good news is that I think most, if not all, the mice are gone from the house. Weird news is that I think the northern short-tailed shrew that found its way in probably ate the mice. I still can't find THAT thing and it's not getting into any of the traps.
Blarina_brevicauda.jpg
That's the picture from Wikipedia but it looks EXACTLY like the one I saw running around by the water heater!

[ddnev45]

That's what I was thinking.

I think you have to use feh to enable transparency in KDE. I have yet to experiment with KDE so I can't be sure but other people on this forum said something to that effect.

Yes, you can use feh to get the transparency looking right in KDE. I think this is still accurate for the current versions of KDE.

KDE, feh and transparent conky.

Example conkyrc with feh for KDE.

[Crinos512]

As seen in this post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...ostcount=11593

I just cannot figure out my transparency issue. I copied and pasted my .conkyrc from a previous post I made and didn't change anything. The background was transparent when I was using Ubuntu. Does anyone have a clue what I need to do?

I think you have to use feh to enable transparency in KDE. I have yet to experiment with KDE so I can't be sure but other people on this forum said something to that effect.

You are correct dmillerct, feh is needed because of the way plasma is implemented.

${texeci 3600 feh --bg-scale "`grep 'wallpaper=' ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc | head -n1 | tail --bytes=+11`"}






..another (more elegant solution, IMNSHO) assuming you have conky 1.7.2 or better is to use 'lua' like here, but a word of caution, it's addictive too.

Save this as ~/scripts/draw_bg.lua

--[[
Background by londonali1010 (2009)
 
This script draws a background to the Conky window. It covers the whole of the Conky window, but you can specify rounded corners, if you wish.
 
To call this script in Conky, use (assuming you have saved this script to ~/scripts/):
	lua_load ~/scripts/draw_bg.lua
	lua_draw_hook_pre
 
Changelog:
+ v1.0 -- Original release (07.10.2009)
]]
 
-- Change these settings to affect your background.
-- "corner_r" is the radius, in pixels, of the rounded corners. If you don't want rounded corners, use 0.
 
corner_r=15
 
-- Set the colour and transparency (alpha) of your background.
 
bg_colour=0x000000
bg_alpha=0.4
 
require 'cairo'
function rgb_to_r_g_b(colour,alpha)
	return ((colour / 0x10000) % 0x100) / 255., ((colour / 0x100) % 0x100) / 255., (colour % 0x100) / 255., alpha
end
 
function conky_draw_bg()
	if conky_window==nil then return end
	local w=conky_window.width
	local h=conky_window.height
	local cs=cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display, conky_window.drawable, conky_window.visual, w, h)
	cr=cairo_create(cs)
 
	cairo_move_to(cr,corner_r,0)
	cairo_line_to(cr,w-corner_r,0)
	cairo_curve_to(cr,w,0,w,0,w,corner_r)
	cairo_line_to(cr,w,h-corner_r)
	cairo_curve_to(cr,w,h,w,h,w-corner_r,h)
	cairo_line_to(cr,corner_r,h)
	cairo_curve_to(cr,0,h,0,h,0,h-corner_r)
	cairo_line_to(cr,0,corner_r)
	cairo_curve_to(cr,0,0,0,0,corner_r,0)
	cairo_close_path(cr)
 
	cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(bg_colour,bg_alpha))
	cairo_fill(cr)
end

[mobilediesel]

I still can't find the northern short-tailed shrew and it's not getting into any of the traps.

Found it! Stupid thing wandered into the living room. So I guess he found me. Trapped it with a bowl, slid a piece of sheet-metal under so I could pick it up then took for a walk down the street. He'll have fun in the ditch.

[abumaia]

I meant semi-transparent, or semi-opaque (glass half-full / half-empty). Like in this post. As an alternative to make your conky readable on dark and light desktops.

well, if I'm going to need to have a background in my conky, it's gotta look nice. I found this at conky hardcore, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. The only changes I made to the script were radius 15 to 10 and color from white to black, and the location was changed from ~/scripts/ to ~/ConkyScripts/.