HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script

[Cavsfan]

nice try, but it's not a linear conversion....

it's true that 0 C = + 32 F...

however 100 C = + 212 F...

and to make it even more interesting - 40 C = - 40 F

to convert F to C you must do this....C = F - 32 X 5/9

and to convert C to F do this........... F = C X 9/5 + 32

or just use an on-line converter...

tommy

Interesting! Much too complicated for me I'll use an on-line converter if I absolutely have to.

I guess America is behind the times being one of the last remaining holdouts to stick with Fahrenheit.

I'm too old to learn new stuff...

[Cavsfan]

Just wondering if anyone has filed a bug on conky-all not being available on Utopic or if that's even the thing to do.
I installed Utopic Mate yesterday and could not find it anywhere. It doesn't come in the repos.

I had to get a deb file and install that via ubuntu software center.

[deadflowr]

Just wondering if anyone has filed a bug on conky-all not being available on Utopic or if that's even the thing to do.
I installed Utopic Mate yesterday and could not find it anywhere. It doesn't come in the repos.

I had to get a deb file and install that via ubuntu software center.

I would think asking a question first would be a better first step.
You can do so on the conky-all launchpad page.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/conky-all

[Cavsfan]

I would think asking a question first would be a better first step.
You can do so on the conky-all launchpad page.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/conky-all

Thanks for that! I didn't know I could do that but now I see. I asked the question so I'll wait for the response.
If you don't learn something every day I guess it's because your not doing anything.
Thanks again!

[Cavsfan]

I have a question but I'm not sure what it is. He he!

I installed Utopic 14.10 Mate onto some spare disk space I had and am finally getting around to getting the conky setup. I thought I could just copy everything from my other Utopic install and everything would be perfect.
But, that was far from true. I had to install the html entities just like on Mint. So is Mate a different breed or something? This is my first real experience with Mate.

VinDSL's conky was initially all messed up. The print just below the Ubuntu logo at the top looks tiny. I've got some of the tweaking done and as you can see only about half way done.

Another thing is Paramvir's weather at the top left is cutting off the pictures for each day's weather under Forecast: .
And you can see that everything is off a little bit or maybe more.

I haven't the slightest clue how to get that back to normal. Perhaps Paramvir would know?

I haven't switched it to Fahrenheit from Celsius yet but other than that I don't know what went wrong.

Screenshot.jpg

I couldn't get my regular image site to respond. *sigh*

[NM5TF]

I have a question but I'm not sure what it is. He he!


Another thing is Paramvir's weather at the top left is cutting off the pictures for each day's weather under Forecast: .
And you can see that everything is off a little bit or maybe more.

I haven't the slightest clue how to get that back to normal. Perhaps Paramvir would know?

I haven't switched it to Fahrenheit from Celsius yet but other than that I don't know what went wrong.

Screenshot.jpg

I couldn't get my regular image site to respond. *sigh*

I had the same problem with Mint Mate.....

you need to edit your /usr/share/conkywx/examples/short-02-conkyrc.sh file to expand the vertical size so it doesn't cut off
the forecast icons...try to increase the size of this line.....maybe go from 532 to something like 700 or 750:

${voffset -14}${lua main background 45 0xFF83FA 0.1 NA 532}
${voffset -14}${lua main -n background -r 25 -c 0x000000:0.2 -p NA,NA}

and then you might also have to edit the short-02-image-template.sh file to adjust the icon positions...

the first number after the -p is the Horizontal position...the 2nd number is the Vertical position....

and the numbers after the -s are the icon size in Pixels....

##---------- Forecast images --------------------------------------------------
${image [D2I] -p  15, 447 -s 40x40}#
${image [D3I] -p  80, 447 -s 40x40}#
${image [D4I] -p 145, 447 -s 40x40}#
${image [D5I] -p 210, 447 -s 40x40}#
${image [D6I] -p 275, 447 -s 40x40}
${image [D7I] -p 340, 447 -s 40x40}
${image [D8I] -p 405, 447 -s 40x40}

tommy

[Cavsfan]

I had the same problem with Mint Mate.....

you need to edit your /usr/share/conkywx/examples/short-02-conkyrc.sh file to expand the vertical size so it doesn't cut off
the forecast icons...try to increase the size of this line.....maybe go from 532 to something like 700 or 750:

${voffset -14}${lua main background 45 0xFF83FA 0.1 NA 532}
${voffset -14}${lua main -n background -r 25 -c 0x000000:0.2 -p NA,NA}

and then you might also have to edit the short-02-image-template.sh file to adjust the icon positions...

the first number after the -p is the Horizontal position...the 2nd number is the Vertical position....

and the numbers after the -s are the icon size in Pixels....

##---------- Forecast images --------------------------------------------------
${image [D2I] -p  15, 447 -s 40x40}#
${image [D3I] -p  80, 447 -s 40x40}#
${image [D4I] -p 145, 447 -s 40x40}#
${image [D5I] -p 210, 447 -s 40x40}#
${image [D6I] -p 275, 447 -s 40x40}
${image [D7I] -p 340, 447 -s 40x40}
${image [D8I] -p 405, 447 -s 40x40}

tommy

Thanks Tommy! I'll give that a try. Last night just before I logged off this thing it dawned on me the font sizes on Utopic Mate are much smaller than on Utopic.
They are pretty close to half the size.

See this on Utopic:



And this on Utopic Mate:



The fonts on Mate are tiny in comparison for some odd reason.

[Cavsfan]

The first line is commented out:

TEXT
####### ${voffset -14}${lua main background 45 0xFF83FA 0.1 NA 532}
${voffset -14}${lua main -n background -r 25 -c 0x000000:0.2 -p NA,NA}

[Cavsfan]

I believe this may be the problem. It's not downloading the fonts when ttf-mscorefonts-installer is installed.

All done, no errors.
Extracting cabinet: /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/webdin32.exe
  extracting fontinst.exe
  extracting Webdings.TTF
  extracting fontinst.inf
  extracting Licen.TXT


All done, no errors.
All fonts downloaded and installed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 260, in process_download_requests
    os.remove(f)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arial32.exe'
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.1-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu1) ...

And I don't have a clue how to fix that. Every once in a while a box will popup and say it needs to finish installing the font and to click on this button.
But when I click on the button a terminal appears for about a second and disappears. It doesn't work.

Edit speak of the devil it popped up.

Screenshot-Information available.png

[paramvir]

Thanks Tommy! I'll give that a try. Last night just before I logged off this thing it dawned on me the font sizes on Utopic Mate are much smaller than on Utopic.
They are pretty close to half the size.

See this on Utopic:



And this on Utopic Mate:



The fonts on Mate are tiny in comparison for some odd reason.

Ok he he - I am writing this from my old gma500 thingy - finally did a total custom install - 12.04 LTS command line - then X and openbox - little thing has 1 gb ram and I have to be rather frugal he he

To run presentation videos using mplayer2

#!/bin/bash


killall conky


mplayer -fs -af volnorm=2:0.75 -lavdopts threads=4 -zoom -framedrop -stop-xscreensaver "$@"


/home/param/bin/conkywx_2.0.0_sa/run-conkywx.sh &

We do not have a propah gma500 driver to use the graphich chipset - but it works with 12.04.5 but not with 14.04 - so it is good to go - full screen HD video haaaaaaa

OK now the QnA part .....
if you get conky showing a part of the screen like in Utopic Mate - increanse the text_buffer_size by 1000 and then see and adjust.

You should be able to adjust the desktop font size in the settings - some developer perhaps is using lower rez display or something... happens all the time.

I have noticed when changing Desktop Environment or Distro - sometimes the alignment goes turtle - changes made here bring things back to normal. Font size of 10 works great in XFCE4 Arch - maybe will be different for another DE - in Ubuntu - 9.5 works magic...

#-----------------------------------------------------------
# Change the xftfont size value if the template is not
# appearing aligned
#-----------------------------------------------------------
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=9.5
# xftfont DroidSansFallback:size=10
# xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10
# xftfont FreeSerif:size=10
# xftfont FreeSans:size=10

I have various fonts here since I was testing Unicode and esoteric languages

Let me know how it goes