Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[Dngrsone]

Another idea I had, terrible as it is, is to use conky/lua as a (hopefully) temporary replacement for the Unity launcher bar-- I have several different Firefox profiles I use for vastly different applications (for instance: my daily reader, my blogger, my forum visitor, and my out-of-town anonymous browser); the launcher right now uses the generic Firefox launcher icon to control and track each of the different instances of Firefox, even though I have separate launchers and icons for each profile... If I could at least make an icon for each profile in my conky and be able to either launch or go to the appropriate window of each individual instance with a mouse-click, that would be awesome.

[42dorian]

Another idea I had, terrible as it is, is to use conky/lua as a (hopefully) temporary replacement for the Unity launcher bar-- I have several different Firefox profiles I use for vastly different applications (for instance: my daily reader, my blogger, my forum visitor, and my out-of-town anonymous browser); the launcher right now uses the generic Firefox launcher icon to control and track each of the different instances of Firefox, even though I have separate launchers and icons for each profile... If I could at least make an icon for each profile in my conky and be able to either launch or go to the appropriate window of each individual instance with a mouse-click, that would be awesome.

That's not Terrible. I remember mrpeachy working on an interactive launcher bar exactly like that.

Y'know what? I'm seeing a pattern here. You and mrpeachy need to have a long chat on your own so you can get caught up on this stuff. In the past couple/few cases you've brought up, your "Ideas" have pretty much matched what mrpeachy has done already. The fact that you keep calling them "terrible" or something similar, I'm thinking it's time you took some time with mrpeachy. Maybe read his lua howto and/or his blog. Get yourself caught up. These things are possible. I think, at worst, you can take a remarkably similar idea and customise it to do exactly what you are saying.

[mrpeachy]

@ Dngrsone
ive tried several incarnations of a conky launcher
its pretty easy to get going

here is one for example


uses the window_type panel so it doesnt get covered up

and here is a conky launcher and panel
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/207135/#p207135

im working on a new button script that should make adding buttons to conky much easier than it has been

[42dorian]

@ Dngrsone
ive tried several incarnations of a conky launcher
its pretty easy to get going

here is one for example


uses the window_type panel so it doesnt get covered up

and here is a conky launcher and panel
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/207135/#p207135

im working on a new button script that should make adding buttons to conky much easier than it has been

Yeah. Those are the ones I remember. That's what I was talking about. Thanks mrpeachy! You confirmed my memory for me! ...Do... Do you want a hug or something? ...I'm okay with it... You do a good job on these scripts, you do deserve it...

[Elaine M]

Hi everyone,
First time posting and very new to conky! I just got teobigusgeekus's weather conky installed. It works fine. However no matter what i do i cant get it to appear transparent on screen. Its got a really black background I tried adjusting background transparent, argb settings, etc in .conkyrc. But all to no avail. I was hoping someone could help me figure this out.

Thank you in advance
Elaine

[Cavsfan]

Just wondering why my conky would have (null) in place of the 4 CPU temperatures and a few other instances but, after several minutes, the temps etc. show up?
This is only on Precise and it is puzzling to me.

I thought logging out and back in would help but, no just waiting a while helps.

[42dorian]

Just wondering why my conky would have (null) in place of the 4 CPU temperatures and a few other instances but, after several minutes, the temps etc. show up?
This is only on Precise and it is puzzling to me.

I thought logging out and back in would help but, no just waiting a while helps.

You're using Conky 1.8.1-6. It has a problem with Gnome-Keyring, and also has this strange tendency to wait until the first interval before running any of the execi commands.

Upgrade to Conky 1.9.0-2. Easiest way (Ubuntu family)?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vincent-c/conky
sudo apt-get update

Then just accept the updated version of Conky that shows up.

[42dorian]

Hi everyone,
First time posting and very new to conky! I just got teobigusgeekus's weather conky installed. It works fine. However no matter what i do i cant get it to appear transparent on screen. Its got a really black background I tried adjusting background transparent, argb settings, etc in .conkyrc. But all to no avail. I was hoping someone could help me figure this out.

Thank you in advance
Elaine

Kinda need a screenshot to see this for myself. I have a theory, but I won't say anything until there's a visual confirmation. I don't want to assume anything.

[Elaine M]

Thanks for reply 42Dorian. Here is the screenshot. Blk background on the weather conky. Other conky to right is ok.

[mrpeachy]

Thanks for reply 42Dorian. Here is the screenshot. Blk background on the weather conky. Other conky to right is ok.

can you also post your entire conkyrc inside code tags