Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[mobilediesel]

Are you sure? I think all software measure in MiB (binary base), the problem is the hardware vendors, like CD, or hard disk

The problem is that the new IEC 60027 "standard" using kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, exbi, zebi, zebi and yobi were only invented to satisfy the hardware vendors that want to look like they're selling bigger drives than they are. kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta and yotta worked just fine using binary. There was no REAL reason for that to change.

Drive manufacturers got tired of hearing how their 40 gigabyte drives were really 37.24 gigabytes and their 320 gigabyte drives were only 297.92 gigabytes.

A new standard wasn't needed. A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. That will be true until a bit can contain more than a 0 or a 1.

[jjgomera]

I think you have a mistake, the IEC 60027 define that units so:

1 KiB= 2^8 = 1024 bytes (Ki from kilo informatic)

1 KB = 10^3 = 1000 bytes

Always it use kilo in Computer_Science as 1024 bytes, but for a person kilo is always 1000 (kilometer, kilogram...), so thats was a problem.

That standard doesnt satisfy the hardware vendors, otherwise it clarify that, defining the computer sciences magnitudes

kiB is always binary base
KB can be binary or decimal base (in computer science)

Finally, i think all software use binary base to measure memory, but same use KB (k3b) and others like nautilus are beginning to use the IEC 60027 standard recommendations

[mobilediesel]

I think you have a mistake, the IEC 60027 define that units so:

1 KiB= 2^8 = 1024 bytes (Ki from kilo informatic)

1 KB = 10^3 = 1000 bytes

Always it use kilo in Computer_Science as 1024 bytes, but for a person kilo is always 1000 (kilometer, kilogram...), so thats was a problem.

That standard doesnt satisfy the hardware vendors, otherwise it clarify that, defining the computer sciences magnitudes

kiB is always binary base
KB can be binary or decimal base (in computer science)

Finally, i think all software use binary base to measure memory, but same use KB (k3b) and others like nautilus are beginning to use the IEC 60027 standard recommendations

I do know how the new system works, I just don't think it was needed. People who didn't understand binary have invented the new identifier for binary.
I don't acknowledge KiB because the i=imaginary.

Maybe it's because I'm 35 and that's positively ancient in the technological world.

[mobilediesel]

Closer to back on topic:

I am running conky 1.7.1.1 and I'm going to try compiling 1.7.2
I've compiled a couple programs before. Is there a way to list what all the default settings are for ./configure? ./configure --help isn't as helpful as I would hope.

  --disable-own-window    disable if you do not want support for creating own
                          window [default=yes]

Does that mean that it does or does not compile support for own window?
That suggests to me that it does not compile support for own window as it sounds like "Yes, we don't do that"

[londonali1010]

Closer to back on topic:

I am running conky 1.7.1.1 and I'm going to try compiling 1.7.2
I've compiled a couple programs before. Is there a way to list what all the default settings are for ./configure? ./configure --help isn't as helpful as I would hope.

  --disable-own-window    disable if you do not want support for creating own
                          window [default=yes]

Does that mean that it does or does not compile support for own window?
That suggests to me that it does not compile support for own window as it sounds like "Yes, we don't do that"

I believe that own window support is enabled by default.

A general question:

@Those of you who wanted to be able to use a max value on my rings.lua script...What specific things were you wanting to do with it. Because most of the Conky variables have an analogous percent output variable, so you wouldn't need a max. Then there are a few like upspeed and downspeed where you could hard-code the max. If you're talking things like the output for song progress from ConkyRhythmbox or something, it's a bit tougher...

[admelfo]

Nice!

[dmillerct]

I believe that own window support is enabled by default.

A general question:

@Those of you who wanted to be able to use a max value on my rings.lua script...What specific things were you wanting to do with it. Because most of the Conky variables have an analogous percent output variable, so you wouldn't need a max. Then there are a few like upspeed and downspeed where you could hard-code the max. If you're talking things like the output for song progress from ConkyRhythmbox or something, it's a bit tougher...

definatly upspeed / downspeed. diskio? cant think of any more off the top of my head. Might need to stew on it a bit.

[mobilediesel]

I believe that own window support is enabled by default.

Thank you! So really:
[default=yes] should be [default=enabled]
and
[default=no] should be [default=disabled]
For people like me who hate it when someone says "I could care less" when they really mean "I couldn't care less"

I'll have to send an email to the Conky developers about that. I'm just picky!

Now when I configure I get

configure: error: tolua++ or tolua++5.1 is required for Lua extras.

So I tried

sudo apt-get install tolua++

and it installed

liblua40 liblua40-dev liblualib40 libtolua-dev libtolua0

and it still gives me

configure: error: tolua++ or tolua++5.1 is required for Lua extras.

That looks like the only thing keeping me from getting 1.7.2 compiled. Is that something that's not supported by Hardy?

[londonali1010]

Thank you! So really:
[default=yes] should be [default=enabled]
and
[default=no] should be [default=disabled]
For people like me who hate it when someone says "I could care less" when they really mean "I couldn't care less"

I'll have to send an email to the Conky developers about that. I'm just picky!

Yeah, do that...It confused me too! That's why I just went for the deb!!!

Also, @everyone: I released another version of my rings.lua script, with a "max" variable and an "angle" variable (although I'm not really sure what you can use the max for yet, but it's there!!!). You can get it at Conky Hardcore!

[bluebyt]

It could be an issue with a voffset somewhere doing something unexpected. I shall play around with it and see what I uncover. In the meantime, if you're not using the latest version of conky, update! Sometimes that fixes things.

[EDIT: Works fine for me, but I didn't test scripts which means that as long as you're sure you don't have a bunch of spaces at the bottom, the problem is probably one of those scripts. I recommend Kaivalagi's python scripts, they are primo.]

Thanks Sarai the Geek your answer is really appreciated!
It seem to be caused by the weather script, but I didn't find exactly what is causing this?

By the way I already used the script that you linked.