Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[BenB1]

So here are my conky files. I use a separate conky for each monitor so i can place them where i want... although that is proving difficult :/

Been trying conky using your method. Seems to work nicely, though do see how placement could be fun :\ May post a shot later on.

[|Anthony|]

It might be that you reached *race condition* that nobody had before.

It might be, that it this 1 on 5 situations that Conky won't align properly that layering and Conky start goes wrong.

It might be that Conky starts after Compiz but before VDesk, or starts after Conpiz and VDesk and it is the problem.

So, to test, kill Conky and start it manually few times. If it align well with everything setup already then it is load queue problem.
Then modify your Conkt startup script for Conky to wait for Compiz and VDesk to completely load and only after that to start Conky.

If manual Conky start won't align well every time when Compiz and VDesk is already working then you must disable VDesk from loading by system and add it to Conky startup script to load after Conky starts.

I have tried several combinations for starting VDesk, Conky and Screenlets... all variants result in the same situation... Conky time and net monitors will randomly be misaligned. What is this "race condition" you speak of?

Been trying conky using your method. Seems to work nicely, though do see how placement could be fun :\ May post a shot later on.

Great, I'd love to see a shot! I like having different monitors grouped and placed around the screen parameter... It's like a HUD

[dk75]

I have tried several combinations for starting VDesk, Conky and Screenlets... all variants result in the same situation... Conky time and net monitors will randomly be misaligned. What is this "race condition" you speak of?

Using VDesk/xwinwrap with Compiz and Conky migth start a race for error ;PPPp

Try to disable VDesk/xwinwrap for a while and check if this misaligning still happens. If not then that's the problem and you may ask Conky and Compiz devs about cooperation with xwinwrap.
If it will still happens without xwinwrap working then it is solely Conky bug.
If it is bug of yours compilation or bug of "too much Conky simultaneously" it's open question.

Or maybe it is Conky + screenlets cooperation bug...

Work it out through elimination.

[arclance]

I am having trouble with ${scroll} in conky.
My python weather script produces this line.

${scroll 76 1 ${color}The Flood Warning is cancelled for ${color0}|${color} the little Kanawha river at Elizabeth. ${color0}|${color}* At 1:00 am Thursday the stage was 35.7 feet.  ${color0}|${color}* Fell below flood stage at 10:56 PM Wednesday. ${color0}|${color}* Flood stage is 36.0 feet. ${color0}|${color}* Forecast...the river will continue to fall to 22.2 feet by Friday morning. ${color0}|${color}* A crest near feet compares to a previous crest of 36.4 feet on February 24  ${color0}|${color} 2003. ${color0}|}

But it shows up as a blank line in conky.
Does anyone know why It is not working.

This is the .conkyrc that is being used.

# conky configuration
# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background no

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Monospace:size=10

# Text alpha when using Xft
#xftalpha 0.8

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
#own_window no

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 930 0
maximum_width 923

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes

# Stippled borders?
#stippled_borders 8

# border margins
#border_inner_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

# own window options
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 628    ### left &right
gap_y 31    ### up & down

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color CC9900
default_shade_color 8B0000
default_outline_color CC9900
# colours
color0 EE7600
color1 8B0000

text_buffer_size 5000 # larger templates require this value to increase.

lua_load ~/bin/draw_conky_bg_leakfix.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre draw_bg

TEXT
${execpi 150 cat /home/______/bin/Wunderground_Conky/log/Wunderground_Weather.txt}

This is the full output of my weather script.

${color}2011-11-24 ${color0}|${color} 12:53:00 AM EST${goto 415}${color}${time %r}${alignr}${color0}Using Backup W&I ${color}2011-12-28 ${color0}|${color} 01:54:55 PM EST
${voffset -3}${color0}$hr
${color0}|          ${color}Today (Thursday)${goto  310}${color0}|           ${color}Tommorow (Friday)${goto 620}${color0}|                 ${color}Sunday${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}|                ${color}Clear${goto  310}${color0}|             ${color}Partly Cloudy${goto 620}${color0}|              ${color}Rain Showers${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}|      ${color}33.00°F${color0}|${color} 0.56°C${color0}|${color}273.71 K${goto  310}${color0}| ${color0}High Temp: ${color}61.00°F${color0}|${color}16.11°C${color0}|${color}289.26 K${goto 620}${color0}| ${color0}High Temp: ${color}54.00°F${color0}|${color}12.22°C${color0}|${color}285.37 K${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Windchill: ${color}  N/A°F${color0}|${color}  N/A°C${color0}|${color}   N/A K${goto  310}${color0}| ${color0}Low Temp:  ${color}40.00°F${color0}|${color} 4.44°C${color0}|${color}277.59 K${goto 620}${color0}| ${color0}Low Temp:  ${color}36.00°F${color0}|${color} 2.22°C${color0}|${color}275.37 K${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Dew point: ${color}32.00°F${color0}|${color} 0.00°C${color0}|${color}273.15 K${goto  310}${color0}| ${color0}Rain/Snow Chance: ${color}0%${color0}/${color}36%${goto 620}${color0}| ${color0}Rain/Snow Chance: ${color}70%${color0}/${color}18%${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| High Temp: ${color}56.00°F${color0}|${color}13.33°C${color0}|${color}286.48 K${goto  310}${color0}|      ${color}2011-11-25 ${color0}|${color} 10:00:21 PM EST${goto 620}${color0}|      ${color}2011-11-27 ${color0}|${color} 07:00:21 PM EST${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Low Temp:  ${color}34.00°F${color0}|${color} 1.11°C${color0}|${color}274.26 K${goto  310}${color0}| ${voffset -8}${color0}____________________________________${voffset 8}${goto 620}${color0}| ${voffset -8}${color0}____________________________________${voffset 8}${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Wind: ${color}North (0) at 0(0) mph${goto  310}${color0}|                ${color}Saturday${goto 620}${color0}|                 ${color}Monday${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Bar: ${color}1026 mbar (-)${goto  310}${color0}|             ${color}Partly Cloudy${goto 620}${color0}|             ${color}Chance Of Rain${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Humidity: ${color}96%${goto  310}${color0}| ${color0}High Temp: ${color}63.00°F${color0}|${color}17.22°C${color0}|${color}290.37 K${goto 620}${color0}| ${color0}High Temp: ${color}47.00°F${color0}|${color} 8.33°C${color0}|${color}281.48 K${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Visibility: ${color}5.0 mi${goto  310}${color0}| ${color0}Low Temp:  ${color}43.00°F${color0}|${color} 6.11°C${color0}|${color}279.26 K${goto 620}${color0}| ${color0}Low Temp:  ${color}34.00°F${color0}|${color} 1.11°C${color0}|${color}274.26 K${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Rain/Snow Chance: ${color}0%${color0}/${color}17%${goto  310}${color0}| ${color0}Rain/Snow Chance: ${color}10%${color0}/${color}11%${goto 620}${color0}| ${color0}Rain/Snow Chance: ${color}50%${color0}/${color}32%${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Total Precip: ${color}0.00 in (0.0 mm)${goto  310}${color0}|      ${color}2011-11-26 ${color0}|${color} 07:00:21 PM EST${goto 620}${color0}|      ${color}2011-11-28 ${color0}|${color} 07:00:21 PM EST${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Sun Rise/Sun Set: ${color}7:19 AM${color0}/${color}5:05 PM${goto  310}${color0}| ${voffset -8}${color0}___________________________________________________________________________${voffset 8}${color}${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}| Moon Phase: ${color}1%${goto  310}${color0}| ${scroll 76 1 ${color}The Flood Warning is cancelled for ${color0}|${color} the little Kanawha river at Elizabeth. ${color0}|${color}* At 1:00 am Thursday the stage was 35.7 feet.  ${color0}|${color}* Fell below flood stage at 10:56 PM Wednesday. ${color0}|${color}* Flood stage is 36.0 feet. ${color0}|${color}* Forecast...the river will continue to fall to 22.2 feet by Friday morning. ${color0}|${color}* A crest near feet compares to a previous crest of 36.4 feet on February 24  ${color0}|${color} 2003. ${color0}|}${color}${goto 930}${color0}|
${color0}|    ${color}2011-11-24 ${color0}|${color} 10:00:21 PM EST${goto  310}${color0}|                      ${color}Station ID${color0}| ${color}City Name${color}${goto 930}${color0}|

[mrpeachy]

I am having trouble with ${scroll} in conky.
My python weather script produces this line.

${scroll 76 1 ${color}The Flood Warning is cancelled for ${color0}|${color} the little Kanawha river at Elizabeth. ${color0}|${color}* At 1:00 am Thursday the stage was 35.7 feet.  ${color0}|${color}* Fell below flood stage at 10:56 PM Wednesday. ${color0}|${color}* Flood stage is 36.0 feet. ${color0}|${color}* Forecast...the river will continue to fall to 22.2 feet by Friday morning. ${color0}|${color}* A crest near feet compares to a previous crest of 36.4 feet on February 24  ${color0}|${color} 2003. ${color0}|}

But it shows up as a blank line in conky.
Does anyone know why It is not working.

the problem is that the scroll function is being called via the execpi not dire tly in the conkyrc
scroll always starts with a blank line (assuming the text length is greater than the scroll length) but i think it needs to be run in the conkyrc so conky "remembers" where it is in the scroll process. When called via execpi it is activated only once, hence the blank line

would it be possible to output that line to another text file?
this works for example

${scroll 10 1 ${execpi 60 cat /directory/text.txt}}

need to remove the ${scroll x y from the beginning and the } from the end of the text you want to show

[arclance]

the problem is that the scroll function is being called via the execpi not dire tly in the conkyrc
scroll always starts with a blank line (assuming the text length is greater than the scroll length) but i think it needs to be run in the conkyrc so conky "remembers" where it is in the scroll process. When called via execpi it is activated only once, hence the blank line

would it be possible to output that line to another text file?
this works for example

${scroll 10 1 ${execpi 60 cat /directory/text.txt}}

Thanks, yes that works if placed in the .conkyrc, but I can't put it where I had been thinking of that way because everything is placed inside my weather script.
I put it as the top line which is actually better because of the length of the string.
The text area of my .conkyrc looks like this now.

${scroll 115 3 ${execpi 50 cat /directory/alertMessagePass.txt}}
${execpi 150 cat /directory/Wunderground_Weather.txt}

My conky looks like this now. The dates are wrong because I am using archive data for testing the alerts.

[RiccITA]

Hi everyone here!
following two hundred millions guides I created my conky.
Here you can see it (also attached).

I asked many times for help in other forums, but noone replied..
I have problems with Google Calendar and music.
In the picture you may see numbers from 1to4.
Soon I will change something in points 1 and 2 on my own,but in points 3 and 4 I need your help.

3 is the space for music. I'd like to put there an icon of the album art, then on the right side, the name of the song, the artist and the album and if possible (but not needed) the bar of duration.

4 should be the space for google calendar events, to show lines of events for "today".

I want to follow from zero new procedures, but consider that I have conky companions installed, some googlecalendar templates somewhere. Nothing instead for music, I would like to continue using VLC, but if only Audacious will show the infos I will use that one.

One italian pizza to whoever will help me!

[mrpeachy]

3 is the space for music. I'd like to put there an icon of the album art, then on the right side, the name of the song, the artist and the album and if possible (but not needed) the bar of duration.

try this link for music/album art
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/to...s-for-18-apps/

[RiccITA]

Thanks for support!
I first opened VLC, set the Dbus. I downloaded the files, extracted them in my home /username/extractedfolder and also directly in /username.
I launched on the terminal .conkyvlcrc but nothing happened, they give me back errors all the time, like "/usr/bin/env: python2:File or directory not existing". When I close VLC the flow in the terminal stops.

I think i'm not even near to understand what I'm doing!
Also, in my conkyrc I pasted this code:
${if_running vlc}
${execp ~/conkyVlc.py --template=~/conkyVlc.template}
$endif
but I don't even know why I did this.

about google calendar, I had the companions ppa installed and googlecalendar too. File downloaded, extracted, put everywhere, modified my .conkyrc with this code (as from the example in the files)

${GOTO 20}Calendar
${execi 600 conkyGoogleCalendar --username=email --password=blabla --daysahead=28 --limit=10}

${GOTO 20}Calendar too..
${execpi 600 conkyGoogleCalendar --username=email --password=blablatoo --daysahead=7 --limit=10 --template=usr/share/conkygooglecalendar/conkyGoogleCalendar.template}

the result is that conky is showing "calendar" and "calendar too" exactely where I want, font, colour, but there is not the content of gcal.

[VastOne]

try this link for music/album art
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/to...s-for-18-apps/

Thankee Sai mrpeachy!

RiccITA is now over on #! getting the help