Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[ddnev45]

is it possible to code a conky that acts as a count down to a certain day? 6pm of the 16th? then when it gets to that time it counts forward 14 days and starts counting again

thought it would be cool to have a countdown to pay day

Maybe the conkyDateDiff or conkyDaysDiff will work for you - both are available at the Conky PitStop.

[Sector11]

And of course the screenshot. New, better suited background. I "Think" I might be done with Conky for a while. Who knows what kind of "Inspiration" will wake me in the night?

I like it! And the Queen background!

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Ooops

Well said!

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@ Arminius
Please remove your pic and attach a thumbnail.
This page takes over 3 minutes load for me.

I'm not in Australia, but I am south of the "line" so how come my text doesn't read like this:

ɹǝpun uʍop puɐl ɐ ɯoɹɟ ǝɯoɔ ı
ɹǝpunɥɔ uǝɯ puɐ ʍolɟ sǝop ɹǝǝq ǝɹǝɥʍ
"May the source be with you"

[Sector11]

So if this is the new .conkyrc thread on ubuntu forums then we are calling the other one a lost cause. correct? anyway, heres my 3 different current conkies from my htpc, laptop and phone respectively. If this is the new thread that we are going with then we should inform everyone. 42dorian I know you told a couple of us but hopefully it will get around pretty quick

Lost cause - no not at all.

There is a LOT of historical info there. I hope when it comes back that it will be "archived" as read only, if only for a few years. If you look at the first few hundred pages they are for a conky version that is very out dated and have references to defunct commands and scripts that no longer work or have been updated or no longer necessary due to new conky commands.

In a way this is better, but it will take time to regain the wealth of knowledge. One can always refer to a specific post in the thread though.

[Sector11]

Well hello there!

Sorry I've been scarce lately but I've been playing with a new Android Smartphone (it's a Dell Streak 5" ...I wish I had a conky for android... that would ROCK!) and Kubuntu 11.04 development on my desktop.

...and I must say my conky has suffered for it.

I guess it's time to roll up the sleeves and get back to work...

YEEEEEEEEEEES! I want to see what you come up with ....

I'll bet it will be a real opener.

[Sector11]

Maybe the conkyDateDiff or conkyDaysDiff will work for you - both are available at the Conky PitStop.

I was thinking the same thing this morning. but that would mean a manual change every 14 days, I'm sure that's not a desirable thing. Now with a nice bash script that does a countdown from a specific "payday day" in the near past that would count down

3, 2, 1, 0 13, 12, etc etc

easy enough if one knew bash scripts (or python, perl, LUA)

{sigh} sadly - I don't! {sigh}

[kaivalagi]

Maybe the conkyDateDiff or conkyDaysDiff will work for you - both are available at the Conky PitStop.

It's worth mentioning that those scripts along with the conkyLatLong and conkyText scripts are now in the conkyMisc package in the Conky Companions PPA. It has it's own thread here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1646675

Chimo

edit: and I said I wouldn't sector11

[dk75]

OK.
I'm in.
And since "Conky Support Scripts" thread still isn't usable then I post it there.

Feew day ago some user at my regional Ubuntu forum PM me about calendar script that is not working at his FreeBSD box.
Knowing that it's some basic differentials between Linux and BSD and I didn't seen working BSD ever, I've posted that "doubtly that I could help you", but it seems that the only problem with this BASH script was lack of SEQ command in BSD (there is SEQ2 but no go).

So, there is new BSD compatibile calendar script (parts in RED are SEQ replacements):

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
cd $(dirname $0)
# horizontal and vertical calendar for conky by ans
# Updated by: mobilediesel, dk75, Bruce, Crinos512, et al.
############################################################
# This work is licensed under the Creative Commons         #
# Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.            #
# To view a copy of this license, visit                    #
# http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/           #
# or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, #
# Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.        #
############################################################
# locale depend week day names
# The 'lang' file must be in the same directory as this script.
# Horizontal and English are the defaults:
# 	conkycal.sh
# Make it vertical:
# 	conkycal.sh -v
# Change the language to Spanish:
# 	conkycal.sh -l es
# Or both at once:
# 	conkycal.sh -v -l es
# The order of the arguments doesn't matter:
# 	conkycal.sh -l es -v
# Need to use a goto:
# 	conkycal.sh -l es|sed 's/^/\${goto 240}/'
# or a goto and a tab:
# 	conkycal.sh |sed -e 's/^/\${goto 240}/' -e 's/$/\${tab 20}/'
DOW=("Mo" "Tu" "We" "Th" "Fr" "Sa" "Su")
while getopts ":vl:" opts; do
case "$opts" in
l) lang=$OPTARG;;
v) orientation="$opts";;
esac
done
if [ -f lang ]; then
    . lang
fi
COLOROLD="445566" #MidSlateGrey
COLORTODAY="00BFFF" #DeepSkyBlue
COLORREST="445566" #MidSlateGrey
COLORNEXT="778899" #LightSlateGrey
COLORSATURDAY="C6FF8E" #a light green
COLORSUNDAY="C6FF8E" #a light green
COLOR=("" "" "" "" "" "\${color $COLORSATURDAY}" "\${color $COLORSUNDAY}")
COLOREND=("" "" "" "" "" "" "\${color}")

TODAY=$(gdate +%-d)
LASTDAY=$(gdate -d "-$TODAY days +1 month" +%d)
FIRSTDAY=$(gdate -d "-$[$TODAY-1] days" +%u)

# horizontal function
h () {
# Build $TOPLINE
k=$FIRSTDAY
for j in {1..31}; do
  x=$[j+LASTDAY/j]
  case $j in
  	${j/#$x})	TOPLINE="$TOPLINE ${COLOR[$[k-1]]}${DOW[$[k-1]]}${COLOREND[$[k-1]]}";;
  	$[LASTDAY+1])	TOPLINE="$TOPLINE \${color $COLORNEXT}${DOW[$[k-1]]}";;
  	*)		TOPLINE="$TOPLINE ${DOW[$[k-1]]}";;
  esac
  k=$[${k/#7/0}+1]
done

BOTTOM="\${color $COLOROLD}$(a=; for (( x=1; x<=$LASTDAY; x++ )); do a="$a$(printf "%02d%s" $x ' ')"; done; printf "$a\033[1D\033[K"|sed "0,/[0-3]*$TODAY \?/s//\${color $COLORTODAY}&\${color $COLORREST}/") \${color $COLORNEXT}$(a=; for (( x=1; x<=$[31-LASTDAY]; x++ )); do a="$a$(printf "%02d%s" $x ' ')"; done; printf "$a\033[1D\033[K")"

echo "${TOPLINE/# /}"
echo "$BOTTOM\${color}"
}

#vertical function
v () {
for (( i=1; i<$TODAY; i++ )); do
    TODAYC[$i]="\${color $COLOROLD}"
done
TODAYC[$TODAY]="\${color $COLORTODAY}"
for (( i=$[TODAY+1]; i<=$LASTDAY; i++ )); do
    TODAYC[$i]="\${color $COLORREST}"
done

k=$FIRSTDAY
for (( j=1; j<=$LASTDAY; j++ )); do
  	echo  "${COLOR[$[k-1]]}${DOW[$[k-1]]} ${TODAYC[$j]}$(printf "%02d" $j)\${color}"
  k=$[${k/#7/0}+1]
done
}

# call function based on "$orientation"
${orientation:-h}

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So, there is new BSD compatibile calendar script (parts in RED are SEQ replacements):

Beautiful. One question does that "also" work in "Linux".

Here's another one. That calendar script you posted maintains a 31 day calendar with extra days for the following months ONLY if it is a horizontal calendar. This one does the same for horizontal or vertical (better for spacing) - can you make this good for BSD as well:

#!/bin/bash
cd ${0%/*}

# horizontal and vertical calendar for conky by ans
# Updated by: mobilediesel, dk75, Bruce, Crinos512, et al.
#This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#(at your option) any later version.

#This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#GNU General Public License for more details.

#You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# locale depend week day names
# The 'lang' file must be in the same directory as this script.
# Horizontal and English are the defaults:
#   conkycal.sh
# Make it vertical:
#   conkycal.sh -v
# Change the language to Spanish:
#   conkycal.sh -l es
# Or both at once:
#   conkycal.sh -v -l es
# The order of the arguments doesn't matter:
#   conkycal.sh -l es -v
# Need to use a goto:
#   conkycal.sh -l es|sed 's/^/\${goto 240}/'
# or a goto and a tab:
#   conkycal.sh |sed -e 's/^/\${goto 240}/' -e 's/$/\${tab 20}/'

DOW=("Mo" "Tu" "We" "Th" "Fr" "Sa" "Su")

while getopts ":vl:d:" opts; do
case "$opts" in
l) lang=$OPTARG;;
v) orientation="$opts";;
d) DATE=$OPTARG;;
esac
done
if [ -f lang ]; then
    . lang
fi

COLOROLD="445566" #MidSlateGrey
COLORTODAY="00BFFF" #DeepSkyBlue "FF8C00" #Darkorange
COLORREST="445566" #MidSlateGrey
COLORNEXT="778899" #LightSlateGrey
COLORSATURDAY="C6FF8E" # a light green
COLORSUNDAY="C6FF8E" #a light green
## COLORSATURDAY="FFFF00"
## COLORSUNDAY="FF8C00"

COLOR=("" "" "" "" "" "\${color $COLORSATURDAY}" "\${color $COLORSUNDAY}")
COLOREND="\${color}"

#DAYS=( $(cal | awk 'BEGIN{FIRST= strftime( "%Y %m 01 00 00 00", systime() )}{if ($0!~/^ *$/){LAST=$NF}} END{print strftime( "%u", mktime( FIRST ) )" "strftime( "%-d" )" "LAST}') )

DAYS=( $(cal $DATE | awk 'BEGIN{
monN=split("January February March April May June July August September October November December", months)
for(i=1; i<=monN; i++) {
months[months[i]]=i;
delete months[i];
}
}
{ if ( NR==1 ) {MONTH=months[$1];YEAR=$2} }{if ($0!~/^ *$/){LAST=$NF}} END{print strftime( "%u", mktime( strftime( YEAR" "MONTH" 01 00 00 00" ) ) )" "strftime( "%-d" )" "LAST}') )

k=${DAYS[0]}
for j in $(seq 1 ${DAYS[2]}); do
  days[$j]="${COLOR[k-1]}${DOW[k-1]}"
  k=$((${k/#7/0}+1))
done
for j in $(seq $((${DAYS[2]}+1)) 31); do
  days[$j]="${DOW[k-1]}"
  k=$((${k/#7/0}+1))
done

# horizontal function
h () {
for i in $(seq 1 ${DAYS[2]}); do
  echo -n "${days[$i]/${DOW[6]}/${DOW[6]}$COLOREND} "
done
echo -n "\${color $COLORREST}"
for i in $(seq $((${DAYS[2]}+1)) 31); do
  echo -n "${days[$i]} "
done
echo $'\n'"\${color $COLOROLD}$(seq -w -s ' ' ${DAYS[2]}|sed "0,/[0-3]*${DAYS[1]} \?/s//\${color $COLORTODAY}&\${color $COLORREST}/") \${color $COLORNEXT}$(seq -w -s ' ' 0$((31-${DAYS[2]})))"
}

#vertical function
v () {
for i in $(seq 1 $((${DAYS[1]}-1))); do
    TODAYC[$i]="\${color $COLOROLD}"
done
TODAYC[${DAYS[1]}]="\${color $COLORTODAY}"
for i in $(seq $((${DAYS[1]}+1)) ${DAYS[2]}); do
    TODAYC[$i]="\${color $COLORREST}"
done
for j in $(seq ${DAYS[2]}); do
    echo  "${days[$j]} ${TODAYC[$j]}$(printf "%02d" $j)\${color}"
done
for j in $(seq -w $((31-${DAYS[2]}))); do
    echo  "\${color $COLORNEXT}${days[$j]} $(printf "%02d" $j)\${color}"
done
}
# call function based on "$orientation" - default is horizontal
${orientation:-h}