HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script

[paramvir]

[QUOTE=Cavsfan;12611560]Don't mean to ask a lame question but, this probably is just that.
I installed conkywx 0.9.0 and made no other changes.

Are you talking about where my screen shows Full Moon: Apr 25 03:59 Waxing your screen doesn't show the date?

I believe mine looks fine as is. Am I right?
Thanks!
[/QUOTE

Yes what you have is correct - Val wanted just the month and day for full moon etc [phases] - this change will reflect in the next release - you will have the option to use as it is now or just month n day - but if you see my templates it even has rate of change - RoC for the moon - it is pretty neat to see how the moon slows down and then really speeds up in it's orbit... it is slowing down now...

[Cavsfan]

Thanks for the clarification. Now I see the time behind "Waxing". I didn't notice it before.

I was hoping for a way to make the entire conky a little wider so that the time could still be displayed.
But, after looking at the files and especially your conkywx.sh file I see it is way over my head to even attempt it.

It would have to be done there and in the .conkyrc file as well and in the ~/.conky/bargraph_testing.lua too I am guessing.

It is doable correct? But, definitely not by moi!

The conky I think is beautiful and still allows my screen plenty of room as long as I am not in Unity, which absorbs another inch or so on the left.
I pretty much live in Gnome Classic or Fallback or whatever it is called for that very reason.

[paramvir]

Thanks for the clarification. Now I see the time behind "Waxing". I didn't notice it before.

I was hoping for a way to make the entire conky a little wider so that the time could still be displayed.
But, after looking at the files and especially your conkywx.sh file I see it is way over my head to even attempt it.

It would have to be done there and in the .conkyrc file as well and in the ~/.conky/bargraph_testing.lua too I am guessing.

It is doable correct? But, definitely not by moi!

The conky I think is beautiful and still allows my screen plenty of room as long as I am not in Unity, which absorbs another inch or so on the left.
I pretty much live in Gnome Classic or Fallback or whatever it is called for that very reason.

Ahhhh just had my first java of the morning - Lovely day - loads of breeze...

Actually it all boils down to your real estate - I have a 24in wide screen - so rather than have one sided conky - I have system and wx split on either side making it convenient to have my apps some where floating in the middle.

It is the conky side of tweaking you need to look at - shouldn't be much - I prefer vanilla conky rather than lua - may be some day who knows he he

I have finally settled with XFCE - it is light and agile and gives me all the bells and whistles gnome or kde have to offer and then some - add Compiz and you are good to go.

[Cavsfan]

oh and i fixed the thing for moon times

Lines that go in the config file - the section goes just under Time_format as I have shown below:

# [5] Use 24 hour time format
Time_format=1

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Show time with month and day for Moon Phases
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# [0] Show only month n day (EXAMPLE: May 18)    [Default]
# [1] Show month day time (example: May 18 10:06 am) The time will follow
#     the Time_format settings above.
moon_time=0 

Lines that change in the conkywx.sh - This goes at the bottom of con_hrs function - u see the last closing curly braces.

        case $2 in
        1)    case $moon_time in
            1) echo "$( date --date="$corrtime" "+%b %d ${t_format//\+/}" )" ;;
            *) echo "$( date --date="$corrtime" "+%b %d" )"                     ;;
            esac                                                             ;;
        *)    echo "$( date --date="$corrtime" "$t_format" )"                     ;;
        esac                                                                 ;;
    esac
} 

cheers

paramvir, what config file are you referring to for the first part where I insert Time_format=1 and moon_time=0

Actually it all boils down to your real estate - I have a 24in wide screen - so rather than have one sided conky - I have system and wx split on either side making it convenient to have my apps some where floating in the middle.

I don't have a problem with real estate. I have a 28 inch monitor 1920x1200 but, I have grown accustomed to having Firefox open with the conky on the right visible as shown below.

[Cavsfan]

Nevermind. A little more detective work and I figured it out. I like when that happens.





Oh, hold on my screen is on fire! I gotta go put that out.

[VinDSL]

Oh, hold on my screen is on fire! I gotta go put that out.

LoL!

[wildmanne39]

Cavsfan nice desktop!!!

[PJs Ronin]

I think I have wasted consumed spent invested as much time in the Cube as I have in Conky.

[paramvir]

Nevermind. A little more detective work and I figured it out. I like when that happens.



Oh, hold on my screen is on fire! I gotta go put that out.

Fantastic lol - I like that - I have an aquarium

[Cavsfan]

Cavsfan nice desktop!!!

Thanks!

Fantastic lol - I like that - I have an aquarium

That is pretty sweet too!