Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[grumblebum2]

Okay, this is my first post here on the forums, so hi!

Just finished setting up conky (it's my first attempt with conky) and here's the result:
(date is in portuguese because I'm from Brazil)

Neat little conky.
How's ubuntu-studio in 14.04?
What do you use it for?
Still have ubuntu-studio 10.04 installed here.
Had it all set up for recording with an edirol usb sound card and rakarrack guitar effects but
haven't used it for a while.

[Petro Dawg]

I'm not sure what other people are using, but I found colorname (available in the software center) to be a small simple useful tool for selecting colors from my wallpaper for my conky. It sure beats using an online hex code color chart to try matching the wallpaper colors, like I used to do.

Screenshot from 2014-04-27 10:35:30.jpg

I didn't see a "color picker" program installed on Ubuntu14.04 by default; let me know if there is one.

[Sector11]

I didn't see a "color picker" program installed on Ubuntu14.04 by default; let me know if there is one.

Always did like that wallpaper.

As you know, not an Ubuntu user but ...

aptitude search color

I use "gcolor2" or if you use gtk3 and want to make it ... Unia from #! did gcolor3, available at his gitHub, he says it's almost the same.
gcolor2.jpg

If you use "gthumb" it has a colour picker ... alas, I use mirage.

BTW, your ears burning? I just talked about you - well mentioned that I grabbed some code from you.

Mine rarely changes....

[Petro Dawg]

Always did like that wallpaper.

As you know, not an Ubuntu user but ...

aptitude search color

I use "gcolor2" or if you use gtk3 and want to make it ... Unia from #! did gcolor3, available at his gitHub, he says it's almost the same.
gcolor2.jpg

If you use "gthumb" it has a colour picker ... alas, I use mirage.

Looks pretty similar to colorname actually...
colorname-0.3.png
Probably from the same source, just added the color name search functionality on the bottom is all.

BTW, your ears burning? I just talked about you - well mentioned that I grabbed some code from you.

I think its been a long while since I've used "grep" and "cut" in my conky, you must have had to take a trip on the "wayback machine" to find that code .

Is that one or several small Conkys for that calendar display you have?

[Sector11]

@ Petro Dawg

Probably because colourname is using the gcolor2 code. gThumbs looks the same as well.

way back machine ... nope just this, someone asked is I knew of a way to use "df -h" in a conky ... so I ran:

 27 Apr 14 | 20:09:00 ~
    $ ftxt " df " /media/5/Conky/

/media/5/Conky/PetroDawg/conky_old
161:${execp df -H | grep 'sdc1' | cut -c56-66}${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sdc1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}${if_existing  /dev/sdd1}
162:${execp df -H | grep 'sdd1' | cut -c56-66}${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sdd1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}${if_existing  /dev/sde1}
163:${execp df -H | grep 'sde1' | cut -c56-66}${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sde1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}

/media/5/Conky/PetroDawg/conky_older
61:${execp df -H | grep 'sdc1' | cut -c56-66}:${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sdc1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}${if_existing  /dev/sdd1}
62:${execp df -H | grep 'sdd1' | cut -c56-66}:${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sdd1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}${if_existing  /dev/sde1}
63:${execp df -H | grep 'sde1' | cut -c56-66}:${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sde1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}

 27 Apr 14 | 20:09:09 ~
    $

... and there you were, along a few others as well, dk75 to mention one.

That is all one conky. The original by iMBeCil is a vertical conky calendar that I modified to be horizontal with month and year with the days and added the image. It's all here.

[grumblebum2]

@ Petro Dawg

Probably because colourname is using the gcolor2 code. gThumbs looks the same as well.

way back machine ... nope just this, someone asked is I knew of a way to use "df -h" in a conky ... so I ran:

 27 Apr 14 | 20:09:00 ~
    $ ftxt " df " /media/5/Conky/

/media/5/Conky/PetroDawg/conky_old
161:${execp df -H | grep 'sdc1' | cut -c56-66}${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sdc1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}${if_existing  /dev/sdd1}
162:${execp df -H | grep 'sdd1' | cut -c56-66}${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sdd1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}${if_existing  /dev/sde1}
163:${execp df -H | grep 'sde1' | cut -c56-66}${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sde1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}

/media/5/Conky/PetroDawg/conky_older
61:${execp df -H | grep 'sdc1' | cut -c56-66}:${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sdc1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}${if_existing  /dev/sdd1}
62:${execp df -H | grep 'sdd1' | cut -c56-66}:${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sdd1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}${if_existing  /dev/sde1}
63:${execp df -H | grep 'sde1' | cut -c56-66}:${alignr}${execp df -H | awk '/sde1/ {print $3, "/", $2}'}${else}${endif}

 27 Apr 14 | 20:09:09 ~
    $

... and there you were, along a few others as well, dk75 to mention one.

That is all one conky. The original by iMBeCil is a vertical conky calendar that I modified to be horizontal with month and year with the days and added the image. It's all here.

Handy search....what command is ftxt an alias for?

[Habitual]

I didn't see a "color picker" program installed on Ubuntu14.04 by default; let me know if there is one.

Also, yad, (a zenity fork) provides one with

yad --color

in a repo near you.

[grumblebum2]

Also, yad, (a zenity fork) provides one with

yad --color

in a repo near you.

...and as zenity is in a default ubuntu install....

zenity --color-selection

[Sector11]

Handy search....what command is ftxt an alias for?

OK here you go, it's a tough one:

# find text in files ie: ftxt filepattern /path
alias ftxt='ack-grep'

 28 Apr 14 | 12:26:59 ~
    $ sho ack-grep
Package: ack-grep                        
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.12-2
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 230 k
Depends: libfile-next-perl (>= 1.10), perl
Conflicts: ack
Replaces: ack
Description: grep-like program specifically for large source trees
 Ack is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches.
 It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of
 the file. 
 
 Ack ignores backup files and files under CVS and .svn directories. It also highlights matches to help you see
 where the match was. Ack uses perl regular expressions.
Homepage: http://beyondgrep.com/

@ Habitual
I need to crawl inside your brain - and see what other gems you have in there. Every time we cross paths I learn something.

I have yad here but never realized that it had color - just walked right past it in the man page because it wasn't something I was looking for at the time. See the list below.
... looks identical to gcolor2 - which is going to be removed now.
... Oh and look:

yad --font

is cool too.

mrpeachy will need/want this ... he's creating wun-gui using 'yad' but I didn't see those options in there - yet

I do like and use yad --calendar for a nice simple calendar.

Thank you Habitual

[grumblebum2]

OK here you go, it's a tough one:

# find text in files ie: ftxt filepattern /path
alias ftxt='ack-grep'

...thanks.