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Topic: [solved]quick conky question

I've got a horizontal conky setup, whenever the cpu usage goes from a single digit to double digits anything after that shifts over. Is there any way to make it static? the only thing that I can think of is an if cpu < 10 have an extra space else have it be regular.

Last edited by iggykoopa (2009-01-19 14:30:34)

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Re: [solved]quick conky question

Try something like below. Have the %age  right justified at a specific position. You'll have to adjust till the position is correct. Remember you can assign conkywonky to a keybinding temporary during testing. 

CPU1: ${alignr 20}${cpu cpu1}%$

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  • Registered: 2008-12-13
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Re: [solved]quick conky question

well after playing around with the settings for a while I've ended up just going with bars and graphs for a while. There were a couple promising settings, like pad_percents but they didn't end up working well. If anyone finds a good solution I'd still like to hear it.

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  • Registered: 2009-01-07
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Re: [solved]quick conky question

or try the ${goto xx} variable

  • Registered: 2009-01-16
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Re: [solved]quick conky question

You need to use a mono font, but from the man page:

use_spacer
    Adds spaces around certain objects to stop them from moving other things around. Arguments are left, right, and none (default). The old true/false values are deprecated and default to right/none respectively. Note that this only helps if you are using a mono font, such as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.

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Re: [solved]quick conky question

hmmm thats weird I had tried that with bitstream vera sans mono and it didn't work. I just tried it again to be sure and it's working now. Thanks, I used use_spacer left since I have a % sign on the right.

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