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lazylew
May 19th, 2013, 12:57 PM
In my conky I put a reference for which hotkeys I use for mocp.
The dollar sign I tried to escape like this:

\$but that won‘t work.
How can I accomplish escaping $?

stylintile
May 20th, 2013, 02:37 AM
Hi lazylew,
To have conky display a dollar sign you need to put in two of them. For example;

${font Ubuntu Mono:size=12}${color 75b3d1}$$
displays

$

I hope this helps

lazylew
May 20th, 2013, 11:42 AM
Thank you Stylintile; it works perfectly!

stylintile
May 20th, 2013, 12:48 PM
You're Welcome,
You may want to check out the monster conky thread at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865
Be warned, it is a very looooong thread, but you can find the answer to anything conky related there, or ask for help there. They are a great bunch of people there.
**Beware** Conky can be highly addictive:)

lazylew
May 20th, 2013, 03:27 PM
good one, thanks :-)

stylintile
May 21st, 2013, 02:38 AM
Anytime,
You should mark this thread as solved so others who search will know you found a solution.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnansweredPostsTeam/SolvedThreads

Happy Ubuntu-ing:)

lazylew
May 21st, 2013, 11:14 AM
did it manually at first - thanks for the correction and link.