Hey Petro Dawg,
Can you show the script your using for the Exec command and how it works.
Code:[Desktop Action Main] Exec=/home/greg/.conky/Main/ConkyMain.command --main Name=Main
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Hey Petro Dawg,
Can you show the script your using for the Exec command and how it works.
Code:[Desktop Action Main] Exec=/home/greg/.conky/Main/ConkyMain.command --main Name=Main
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I did in the previous post, however I mistakenly called it Conkymain.command instead of ConkyMain.command, its fixed now in the original post.Originally Posted by stinkeye
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Ahh it's ok.
i thought "--main" was part of the command but it's just a comment.
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And it has been cutback - a LOT!
Here's an old backup and it's not as busy as when I had conkys running on 5 desktops:
But in all fairness, I test conkysCode:#!/bin/bash # click to start, click to stop if pidof conky | grep [0-9] > /dev/null then exec killall conky else # on all desktops # conky -c /media/5/conky/test274.johnraff.conky & # conky -c /media/5/conky/test275.johnraff.conky & # conky -c /media/5/conky/test287.memory.conky & # conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_email.conky & conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Email_1.conky & # Start with low sleep and build up per desktop. # on desktop 4 only (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 3 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Disk_Activity.conky) & # (sleep 1s && wmctrl -s 3 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/mrp/conky3/conky3.conky) & # (sleep 1s && wmctrl -s 3 && conky -c /media/5/conky/Didier-T/conkyrc_meteo_graph_baro) & # (sleep 1s && wmctrl -s 3 && conky -c /media/5/conky/Didier-T/conkyrc_meteo_lua) & # on desktop 3 only # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/TeoWeatherClock/Teo_Clock_2.conky) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/jed_greyclock_conkyrc) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/Chronograph_mrpeachy.conky) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/conky/Didier-T/conkyrc_meteo_graph_baro) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/conky/Didier-T/conkyrc_meteo_lua) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_CRT.conkyrc) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_CRT_v9.conkyrc) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/Chronograph_mrpeachy.conky) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/PetroDawg/PetroDawg.conky) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/PetroDawg/PetroDawg2.conky) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c ~/.conkyrc.CRT) & ##### (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_HUD3.conky) & # on desktop 2 only (change to 5s if using desktop 3) #(sleep 4s && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Dates.conky) & #(sleep 4s && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Rem_Cal.conky) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_VNS.conky) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Disk_Activity.conky) & # (sleep 4s && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_NOAA.conky) & ## CHEWS UP MEMORY! # (sleep 4s && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_v9_SM.conky) & # (sleep 4s && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_mrp_FSYS.conky) & # (sleep 4s && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_v9_H.conky) & # (sleep 4s && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_v9_R.conky) & # on desktop 1 only (change to 10s if using desktop 3) #(sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Top_Right.conky) & #(sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_v9_Vert.conky) & #(sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_VRX.conky) & # (sleep 4s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_CRT_v9.conkyrc) & # (sleep 2s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/conky/S11_Conky/conkymain) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_VRX.conky) & # (sleep 10s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Cal_br.conky) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_ConkyForecast_2013) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/Chronograph_mrpeachy.conky) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/Radiotray.conky) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Chronograph_Full_2.conky) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/TeoWeatherClock/Teo_Clock_2.conky) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Chronograph.conky) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_Chronograph_2.conky) & # (sleep 6s && wmctrl -s 0 && conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_coin.conky) & fi exit
OH, I'm going to look at that desktop idea. Thank you!
I also use that script above, I have almost 30 of them ... sample:
Code:#!/bin/bash ## click to start, click to stop ## Original script by: GrouchyGaijin ## to start stop a specific conky ## This idea by: Stinkeye - Jan 2013 ## With another tweak by: arclance ## Final tweak by: Sector11 - added wmctrl - DUH! #if pgrep -f "conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_all-text.conky" #then # pkill -xf "conky -c /media/5/Conky/S11_all-text.conky" #else # wmctrl -s 5 && conky -c "/media/5/Conky/S11_all-text.conky" #fi if pgrep -f "conky -c /media/5/Conky/CM/CM_Main.conky" then pkill -xf "conky -c /media/5/Conky/CM/CM_Main.conky" else conky -c /media/5/Conky/CM/CM_Main.conky fi
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[QUOTE=Petro Dawg;12763605]Thank you very much Petro Dawg, this is awesome
I have been playing a bit more with conky, it's really wonderful
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Ok, I have one other question if it's not too much to ask
I now have 2 isntances of conky, a small one that autostarts and another one that I start when I need with more info.
Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ROJCrNw.png
Issues / questions:
- The text keeps going down from left to right, I am not sure what is pushing text down as it goes
- conky reserves some space below the menu panel making it impossible to pull windows up to the unity menu panel as usual (see space between panel and sublime editor)
- can I make the down / up speed graph into one single graph with 2 colors? I looked for this but could not find any useful examples
I include my connkyrc here
Thank you very much for your help, I so appreciate this!Code:################################################################################## ## Conky by http://jameshardy88.deviantart.com/art/Conky-JamesHardy88-122466724 ## ## Modified by Umair - http://www.NoobsLab.com ## ################################################################################## # Use Xft? use_xft yes xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=11 xftalpha 0.8 text_buffer_size 2048 # 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 yes own_window_transparent yes own_window_type panel own_window_argb_visual yes own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,above # Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone) double_buffer yes # Minimum size of text area minimum_size 300 0 maximum_width 300 # Draw shades? draw_shades no # Draw outlines? draw_outline no # Draw borders around text draw_borders no # Stippled borders? stippled_borders 0 # border margins border_inner_margin 0 border_outer_margin 0 # border width #border_width 1 # Default colors and also border colors default_color FFFFFF #default_shade_color black #default_outline_color white own_window_colour white # 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 615 gap_y -15 # 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 1 # 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 TEXT ${if_running rhythmbox} ${font j.d.:size=10}${color3}${execi 5 lyricsdownloader -t 35 | fold -sw25} ${else} ${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}\${font} ${cpu}% ${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0} ${color 00FF00}${downspeedgraph wlan0 12,30}${color FF0000}${upspeedgraph wlan0 12,30} ${color FFFFFF}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font} ${upspeed wlan0} ${alignr}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font} ${downspeed wlan0}${endif} ${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0} ${endif} ${endif}
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I would recommend something like...
before the text you wish to move up a bit. You may need to play with the value to get it right, and may need to place several in the code to get everything aligned.Code:${voffset -2}
The code above will vertically offset any following text by 2 pixels upward (a positive value will move text downward). Its handy when mixing fonts or having graphs inline with text.
The reserved space issue is due to your own_window_type = panel, you might try setting this to normal or override to get rid of the reserved space. Otherwise you might just place a large voffset variable (like -25 or so) at the end of the code to pull up any empty space that follows.
Let us know it any of that works for you or not.
Last edited by Petro Dawg; August 21st, 2013 at 09:25 PM.
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Thank you very much!
I had to place various voffset, it didn't occur to me that I could use many inline just before and after depending where it was needed, thank you!
As for the reserved space underneath I had to use voffset again. Any window_type other than panel would not allow conky to sit on top of unity menu panel.
OOOPPS one more issue!
the hot corners on top don't work anymore.
arg
Last edited by stefano-1; August 21st, 2013 at 09:09 PM. Reason: Actually
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Don't know much about "hot corners" and this may not have any impact, but try aligning your Conky to top_middle instead of top_right. You'll also have to adjust your gap_x value to get the Conky repositioned correctly.
Last edited by Petro Dawg; August 21st, 2013 at 09:37 PM.
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You are a legend!
Thank you Petro Dawg, can I invite you for something? a drink? Tea? Coffee? Beer? if you have a donate button somewhere, let me know!
All working great for now, I will consider further refinements in the future!
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