Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[mobilediesel]

How do I use this calender? Is there another file I need to create other than .conkyrc?

You would save that as a bash script and call it from the .conkyrc
We did edit that script quite a bit after ans originally posted it.
You can download the newest version of it here.
Just make sure it's executable with this:

chmod +x conkycal.sh

and you call it from the .conkyrc like this:

${execpi 3600 $HOME/conky/conkycal.sh}

adjusting the path to point to wherever you put the script.
You can change it to a vertical calendar by adding -v after the script like this:

${execpi 3600 $HOME/conky/conkycal.sh -v}

You can also download the optional language file here to add about 40 languages to the script. It only tries to load that file if it exists so you can totally ignore it.
Here are screenshots of the calendar in vertical and horizontal modes:
screenshot2010-06-21T19:38:03-0400.png
screenshot2010-06-21T19:38:23-0400.png

The script should be pretty easy to adjust the colors how you want them, too. Make sure you set a mono-spaced font in the .conkyrc right before calling the script:

${font monospace:size=10}

or whatever other mono-spaced font you might have.

You can also go to Conky PitStop listed in my sig for other scripts related to conky.

[bigsmitty64]

So.....this isn't happening for me. I downloaded the newest version, made it exe, but from there it doesn't do what I want. I know I'll regret asking this but, Do I need script in the .conkyrc? It is blank at the moment. I'm trying to learn this conky stuff and I realize that I can just copy a conky file, and throw it in the .conkyrc, but at the moment I have no conky file in there.

[mobilediesel]

So.....this isn't happening for me. I downloaded the newest version, made it exe, but from there it doesn't do what I want. I know I'll regret asking this but, Do I need script in the .conkyrc? It is blank at the moment. I'm trying to learn this conky stuff and I realize that I can just copy a conky file, and throw it in the .conkyrc, but at the moment I have no conky file in there.

You don't put the script directly in the .conkyrc but put a link to it. Here's a sample .conkyrc that just has the conkycal.sh in it:

override_utf8_locale yes
own_window_title conky
use_xft yes
background yes
xftfont vera:size=10
alignment left
xftalpha 1
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent no
#own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 10
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_shade_color grey
default_outline_color black
use_spacer none
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
default_color 99ccff #Light Blue
color0 4040ff #Blue
color1 40ff40 #Green
color2 ff4040 #Red
color3 ffffff #White
color4 aa40aa #Purple
color5 c08040 #Brown
color6 ffff40 #Yellow
color7 aaaaaa #Gray
color8 808080 #Dark Gray
color9 4040aa #Dark Blue
text_buffer_size 4096
#minimum_size 285
TEXT
${font monospace:size=12}${execpi 3600 $HOME/conky/conkycal.sh}${font}

[bigsmitty64]

Thanks for that. I think I really need to go study the whole conky thing some more.
By adding that script into the .conkyrc, I got the calender to show, and actually made some changes to it, how do I center it in my screen?
I really appreciate the help here! Thank you.

[mobilediesel]

Thanks for that. I think I really need to go study the whole conky thing some more.
By adding that script into the .conkyrc, I got the calender to show, and actually made some changes to it, how do I center it in my screen?
I really appreciate the help here! Thank you.

Multi-line outputs can be tricky to center. Try this:

${execpi 3600 $HOME/conky/conkycal.sh | sed 's/^/${center}/'}

and where the .conkyrc says own_window_type normal make it own_window_type desktop and change alignment left to alignment center

[bigsmitty64]

${execpi 3600 $HOME/conky/conkycal.sh | sed 's/^/${center}/'}: bad substitution

[mobilediesel]

${execpi 3600 $HOME/conky/conkycal.sh | sed 's/^/${center}/'}: bad substitution

Did you add that to the .conkyrc?

[bigsmitty64]

yes I did.

[elendilnl]

Ok, I don't use rythmbox but I think I got a clue.
What if you use http://cerebrum.dnalounge.com:8000/radio do you get the songtitles then?
If yes, then it is simply your beloved radiostation which does not send the titles.

No, that's not the problem.
When I play in Rhythmbox a song from my computer or a CD or if a radiostation is playing, I see the title, track, artist etc.
When using Conky I see that same information by use of Rhythmboxbar.sh, except the information of the radiostation.
My question is, can the information of the radiostation be made visible too in Conky?

[mobilediesel]

yes I did.

I only get that error if I run that line in a terminal. It goes in the .conkyrc file and it then calls the conkycal.sh file and pipes it through sed to add the center variable to the beginning of each line.