HOWTO: VinDSL Conky Script

[paramvir]

Sorry paramvir, but I didn't have the slightest clue that commenting out those three lines would make it use the image set in /usr/share/conkywx/images/wxicons-01/.
I'm pretty sure I did see that but, again I do not see how commenting out those 3 lines makes it get the images from the wxicon-01 image directory. That seems to be implied.

Is there a way to pass a parameter to cause it to use /usr/share/conkywx/images/wxicons-02/ or the other two? Or are you saying that will come in version 2.0?

Thanks!

Hey - we are all in it together - please no need to say sorry. I am learning new things all the time.

There has to be a better way - that I have figured - I also need to figure how to implement it.

Yes you can use the wx_iconset if you comment the fti_* options - try it

[NM5TF]

this absolutely works as Paramvir said.....

screenshot 1 is with icon set #2....

screenshot 2 is with icon set #1....

I only commented out the 7 day forecast icons in these examples

Tommy

[Cavsfan]

Yes you can use the wx_iconset if you comment the fti_* options - try it

Finally I get it. Comment out the fti_* colors and use this in ~/.config/conkywx/vindsl-imperial-conkywx.conf.

## -----------------------------------------------------------------------
## Choose weather icon set
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------
## [1] Enable icon set: org 12 by bharathp666 (Paramvir Likhari remix)
## [2] Enable icon set: origin unknown
## [3] Enable icon set: tick weather icons by xiao4
## [4] Enable icon set: Sticker Weather Icons by Kortoik
wx_iconset=2

That was set to 1 by me I guess. As I believe you had it set to 2 by default.
I had tried setting that to 2 but could not figure out why it didn't change. I just had to comment out the colors. Thanks for the brain exercise! I like how you do not simply give me the answers.

good images conkywx.png

Now to move the sun down a few pixels and it will be perfect. Luckily I know how to do that. Learning is always good. We can't have closed minds that is for sure.
Thanks!

[Cavsfan]

this absolutely works as Paramvir said.....

screenshot 1 is with icon set #2....

screenshot 2 is with icon set #1....

I only commented out the 7 day forecast icons in these examples

Tommy

Thanks! I did not see this post. Guess I just didn't see that you had to comment out the 3 image colors and then it would pickup the images from the chosen location.
What didn't help was the fact that I changed wx_iconset=2 to a 1 which caused it to pickup the first set.

Here is what I have:



I think it is perfect now!

[Cavsfan]

this absolutely works as Paramvir said.....

screenshot 1 is with icon set #2....

screenshot 2 is with icon set #1....

I only commented out the 7 day forecast icons in these examples

Tommy

I don't understand how your current condition picture didn't change as in the 2nd icon set like this:

conkywx iconset.jpg

While your daily pictures did change.

[NM5TF]

I don't understand how your current condition picture didn't change as in the 2nd icon set like this:

conkywx iconset.jpg

While your daily pictures did change.

like I said in my post above....

because I ONLY CHANGED THE 7 DAY FORECAST ICONS, BUT LEFT THE OTHERS UNCHANGED...

like so.....

<snip>

## convert ConkyWeather font to 3D images - state the colour here.
## Use only for Image Templates
## COMMENT these options for using in font templates
## COMMENT these options for using regular weather images in image templates
## Needs Imagemagick installed
## to see List of Color Names visit http://www.imagemagick.org/script/color.php
## Colour can be stated in any of the following formats - enclosed in single quotes
## example for colour *lime* - 'lime' '#0f0' '#00ff00' 'rgb(0,255,0)' 'rgb(0,100%,0)'
fti_now='#fed577'
fti_wind='DarkSeaGreen1'
#fti_fct='lime'
<snip>

as you can see, I have commented out just the "fti_fct" element which is just
the 7 day forecast icons.....make sense???

Tommy

[Cavsfan]

Nothing like Conky to make a person feel sooo helpless. I had Trusty all setup perfectly and so I go to Mint 13 and tried to make the same changes there.
Not remembering anything about tweaking the locations of everything within the weather section I proceed to align everything up.

Soon I have everything all out of wack. So I just copy everything from Trusty into Mint and everything is worse. I procede to align everything once again.
This time making sure I work from the top down because if you make changes at the bottom and work up everything below needs tweaked again.
A couple of hours later I think I have it. *whew*

This stuff is very addicting as well as difficult to work with if you do not do it on a regular basis. I guess I'll just worry about Trusty, Mint 13 and Precise.
Although I can copy the conky from Trusty into Raring, Quantal and Saucy and they will not need adjusting if I do.

[Cavsfan]

Precise was a piece of cake. Just commenting out the the 3 lines and setting wx_iconset=2 in ~/.config/conkywx/vindsl-imperial-conkywx.conf. It was 1 so that must be the default.
This picture illustrates why VinDSL's conky with paramvir's weather is the absolute ultimate. You can surf the internet or whatever and still see what is going on at the right side of the screen.
Without the Unity bar of course which uses up another inch or so on the left.

[NM5TF]

have you tried Mint 16 dev branch yet ???

based on Ubu 13.10 with the 3.11 kernel....super slick...

[Cavsfan]

have you tried Mint 16 dev branch yet ???

based on Ubu 13.10 with the 3.11 kernel....super slick...

No. I tried Mint 15 and it had the same inherent problems that came with Ubuntu 13.04 of which it was derived.
You can maximize a couple of windows and click close on the top window and one of the other windows closes.

I prefer LTS versions. Just get into the development versions for the grub and for fun.

I removed Mint 15 and installed Trusty on that partition when it first came out.