Conky Pidgin Python Script

[burymeinblack907]

Am I able to get help for conkyPidgin here?

[merlin_ie]

Hi Kaivalagi. Any chance you can help with a problem I'm having with this script? I get the following error in terminal :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/conkypidgin/conkyPidgin.py", line 333, in writeOutput
    print output.encode("utf-8")
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
ERROR: Unknown error when calling writeOutput:[Errno 32] Broken pipe

Also, as you can see in the screenshot, it only shows one person as online whereas there is actually 2 people online. (one is msn, other is yahoo) Any suggestions as to why it's not showing the second person? Would it be the first persons yahoo status message is too long perhaps?



I don't know much about pidgin as I don't use it much. Just wanted to try your scripts.

Is there any chance something like this can be done for amsn?

Keep up the great work

[kaivalagi]

Hi Kaivalagi. Any chance you can help with a problem I'm having with this script? I get the following error in terminal :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/conkypidgin/conkyPidgin.py", line 333, in writeOutput
    print output.encode("utf-8")
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
ERROR: Unknown error when calling writeOutput:[Errno 32] Broken pipe

Also, as you can see in the screenshot, it only shows one person as online whereas there is actually 2 people online. (one is msn, other is yahoo) Any suggestions as to why it's not showing the second person? Would it be the first persons yahoo status message is too long perhaps?

I don't know much about pidgin as I don't use it much. Just wanted to try your scripts.

Is there any chance something like this can be done for amsn?

Keep up the great work

I think the broken pipe error you are getting relates to the text length and it's support in Conky (may be wrong...)

Can you try extending the text buffer used in conky? I copied this from my weather script thread:

Conky has a default limitation of 128 bytes for any text output from a variable (such as execi). If you are creating large templates with more characters than the default buffer size can handle, the output will get truncated. If this happens you can override the default behaviour by setting as new buffer size before the TEXT section in your conkyrc file, as follows:

text_buffer_size 1024

I wont be creating a script for amsn, it just doesn't support enough IM providers...try switching over from amsn to pidgin, I find it a more capable IM client

[burymeinblack907]

I seem to be having the same problem as merlin_ie. It only displays half a name when there's more buddies available. I already have my text_buffer_size 2048. Also when I test the command in terminal it displays everything correctly. Any way to fix you know of? I posted a picture.

background yes
use_xft yes
text_buffer_size 2048
# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Terminus:size=9
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 300 5
maximum_width 300
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
stippled_borders 0
border_margin 0
border_width 0
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
alignment top_left
gap_x 0
gap_y 30
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer yes
# colours
color1 white
# light blue
color2 6892C6
# orange
color3 E77320
# green
color4 78BF39
# red
color5 CC0000


TEXT
${font Terminus:style=Bold:size=11}Pidgin Buddies${font}
${color1}${execpi 60 conkyPidgin -t /Conky/conkyPidgin.template -o -C _ -A a -U x -N s -W P -M j -F r}

[kaivalagi]

I seem to be having the same problem as merlin_ie. It only displays half a name when there's more buddies available. I already have my text_buffer_size 2048. Also when I test the command in terminal it displays everything correctly. Any way to fix you know of? I posted a picture.

It must be conky related as the correct output turns up in the terminal. It looks like the conky window isn't large enough.

I would ask some questions on the conkyrc thread, if you here nothing more from here.

[Sarai the Geek]

This is a great script, works exactly as advertised! However, I've got a small screen (12.5 in) so I'm trying to free up some space by using a really minimalist conky. Is there a way I can get it to only display the number of online buddies?

[kaivalagi]

This is a great script, works exactly as advertised! However, I've got a small screen (12.5 in) so I'm trying to free up some space by using a really minimalist conky. Is there a way I can get it to only display the number of online buddies?

Unfortunately not directly, although the default output format is one line per buddy so if you limit output to online only and then parse this output with a sed command you can get a count...e.g:

Terminal:

conkyPidgin -o | sed -n '$='

Conkyrc:

${execi 1800 conkyPidgin -o | sed -n '$='}

Should do the job for you

[Sarai the Geek]

Unfortunately not directly, although the default output format is one line per buddy so if you limit output to online only and then parse this output with a sed command you can get a count...e.g:

Terminal:

conkyPidgin -o | sed -n '$='

Conkyrc:

${execi 1800 conkyPidgin -o | sed -n '$='}

Should do the job for you

It works perfectly. Kudos to you, sir, and thank you for all your awesome scripts!

[kaivalagi]

It works perfectly. Kudos to you, sir, and thank you for all your awesome scripts!

My pleasure

[Snow-Brother]

This is a great script, thank you for creating it. I have a question about it though. I have pidgin set up for Aim and Xfire. Many of my friends use both (not all of them though). Would it be possible to set it up so that it will only show one copy of that friend if they happen to be logged on both Xfire and AIM?

For example, if Friend1 is logged on AIM and Xfire, would it be possible to tell the script to display that friend on Xfire and only display them on AIM if they aren't logged onto anything else?

As I said, this is a great script, but it can become very cluttered if I have a lot of friends logged on to both AIM and Xfire at once. I don't want to remove them from either list because they don't always log on to both.