Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[epidemiks]

${font ConkyWeather:size=20}${execi 3600 /home/gary/scripts/conkyforecast-1.18/conkyForecast --location=ASXX0001 --datatype=WF --startday=0 --endday=0}${font} ${font pizzadude bullets:size=17}r$font ${font pizzadude bullets:size=17}r$font ${font pizzadude bullets:size=17}r$font

my current conditions line is:

${font Conkyweather:size=30}${execi 1800 conkyForecast --night --location=ASXX0075 --startday=0 --datatype=WF --refetch}

perhaps add the --refetch, and remove the --endday
as for the bullets dropping, i think

${voffset -##}

before each bullet point, where ## is plus or minus pixel height.. I use -10 to get degrees and uv sitting vertically centred compared to the weather icon.

oh yeah, and try --night like mine too, I used to get N/A for the weather icon after 6pm or so, --night fixed that!

[zephyrus17]

my current conditions line is:

${font Conkyweather:size=30}${execi 1800 conkyForecast --night --location=ASXX0075 --startday=0 --datatype=WF --refetch}

perhaps add the --refetch, and remove the --endday
as for the bullets dropping, i think

${voffset -##}

before each bullet point, where ## is plus or minus pixel height.. I use -10 to get degrees and uv sitting vertically centred compared to the weather icon.

oh yeah, and try --night like mine too, I used to get N/A for the weather icon after 6pm or so, --night fixed that!

And in the day it'll switch to normal day stuff?

[epidemiks]

And in the day it'll switch to normal day stuff?

yep, at least mine does without any fuss

[zephyrus17]

yep, at least mine does without any fuss

Thanks. I'll give it a tweak tomorrow.

Another thing. Why is that when I put WD (for wind direction), two fonts come out? What do each represent?

[Bruce M.]

Thanks. I'll give it a tweak tomorrow.

Another thing. Why is that when I put WD (for wind direction), two fonts come out? What do each represent?

There should only be one.

Please show your coding and a screenshot of just that area where you see the double font showing.

Chimo!
Bruce.

[El_Belgicano]

Got the solution

Create 2 script files, one to start and another to stop your conky...

to start:

#!/bin/bash
conky -c .conkyrcmpdbig &
pid=$!
echo $pid > /tmp/conkyrcmpdbig.pid

and to stop:

#!/bin/bash
if [[ -s  /tmp/conkyrcmpdbig.pid ]] ;then	
	until ! read conkypid
		do
		kill "${conkypid}"
		done < /tmp/conkyrcmpdbig.pid
		rm -f /tmp/conkyrcmpdbig.pid			
fi

Had thought of the pid, but didn't know how to catch/store it.
Very nice... I'll place that in my right-clic menu...

Or one script with an icon on the panel, I call mine cia.sh (conky in action):

</snip>

I use 1 script, toggle-conky.sh mapped to a button on my AWN dock.

</snip>

Thanks to both for showing your copyists talents lol but the "killall conky" is the annoying part here (aside of the fact I don't use shortcuts in the panels anymore or awn)

There is one problem, El_Belgicano has several conky instances, but wants to only hook into one of them (the mpd orientated one). He wants the ability to stop and start that single conky, whilst the other instances are unaffected. killall conky will close all his conky instances...

I could not even explain it better myself...

[kaivalagi]

Thanks. I'll give it a tweak tomorrow.

Another thing. Why is that when I put WD (for wind direction), two fonts come out? What do each represent?

WD outputs compass heading for the wind, and so can be one character e.g. "N" or 2 characters e.g. "NE" or 3 characters e.g. "NNE"

If you want something to use for an arrow related font such as ConkyCompass, use the BF output (bearing font) or BS (bearing font with wind speed).

Both WD and BS outputs are used in the example that comes with the conkyForecast install...try it by running:

conky -c /usr/share/conkyforecast/example/conkyrc

And look at the conkyrc and conkyForecast.template files in the example directory for ideas

Hope that helps

[Bruce M.]

Thanks to both for showing your copyists talents lol but the "killall conky" is the annoying part here (aside of the fact I don't use shortcuts in the panels anymore or awn)

I could not even explain it better myself...

Oh. I didn't know.
Yea, I guess K's scripts are better than cia.sh unless you could put that into a bashrc alias. That should work too (maybe, - what do I know!)

Chimo!
Bruce

[El_Belgicano]

Oh. I didn't know.
Yea, I guess K's scripts are better than cia.sh unless you could put that into a bashrc alias. That should work too (maybe, - what do I know!)

Chimo!
Bruce

Don't worry, that's Linux: 1 problem, 3 solutions you know about, choose which one best fit...

Saludos.

[El_Belgicano]

Yep, once installed, use the .pot file found in /usr/share/conkyforecast/

I have a translation guide on my website which is probably better though, you can find it here: http://www.kaivalagi.com/node/6 Just scroll down to the section "Producing a Language Specific .po and .mo File".

I'll have a look this weekend, seems I don't have the repo version (thus no /usr/bin/conkyforecast/), and when updating, I got a dependency problem with python-central (got 5.1 and it requires 6.7).
Still using Gutsy, so it might be the problem...
I'll see if I can update python-central without too much tweaks...