1 Reply by johnpriest

(1 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))

anonymous wrote:

I know that using Compiz uses your GPU and thus would make games run slower if you tried having both running.

Would this also apply to xcompmgr?

oh yeah, very much so.

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2 Reply by johnpriest

(11 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))

you'll find that most of them are found in /home/"user"/.themes, for me that would be /home/john/.themes.

if you cant view .themes try pressing ctrl+h and that should do the trick ^^

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3 Reply by johnpriest

(165 replies, posted in Tips, Tricks & Scripts)

aslamp wrote:

This is the second screenshot (the whiteish one). I don't have the brown one anymore, but if you can't figure anything out from this one to change it, let me know!

It uses a gmail script, conkyGoogleReader and conkyForecast

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont AvantGardeLTMedium:size=8
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 200 200
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
default_bar_size 20 20
default_gauge_size 20 20
imlib_cache_size 0


default_color D7D3C5
color1 9f907d

default_color 444444
color1 888888

draw_shades no

alignment bottom_left
gap_x 5
gap_y 0
no_buffers yes
uppercase yes
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no

TEXT


${offset 69}${font AvantGardeLTMedium:size=10}${exec rhythmbox-client --print-playing-format %tt}
${offset 69}$color1${exec rhythmbox-client --print-playing-format %ta}$font${exec ret}
${execi 1 albumart}${image /home/jack/.album -p 0,0 -s 64x64}
      $color${execi 30 python ~/bin/gmail.py}$color1 new messages
      $color${execi 30 python ~/bin/conkyGoogleReader.py --username=gmail --password=password}$color1 unread items
${image /home/jack/images/gr -p 0,91 -s 16x16}${image /home/jack/images/gm -p 1,77 -s 14x14}
${color1}Uptime $color$uptime
${color1}Root $color${fs_free /} Free
${color1}home $color${fs_free /media/home/} Free
${color1}CPU $color${cpu cpu0}% / ${cpu cpu1}%
${color1}RAM $color$memfree Free

$color1${execi 60 conkyForecast -l USIN0211 -d CC} $color${execi 60 conkyForecast -l USIN0211 -d HT -i -u -x -e 3}F 
$color${font AvantGardeLTMedium:size=24}${time %l:%M} $font$color1${Time %a %d %b}

gmail.py:

import os
import string

#Enter your username and password below within double quotes
# eg. username="username" and password="password"
username=""
password=""

com="wget -O - https://"+username+":"+password+"@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom --no-check-certificate"

temp=os.popen(com)
msg=temp.read()
index=string.find(msg,"<fullcount>")
index2=string.find(msg,"</fullcount>")
fc=int(msg[index+11:index2])

if fc==0:
   print "0"
else:
   print str(fc)

amazing, thank you very much ^^ gotta love the linux community and the sharing ^^

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4 Reply by johnpriest

(165 replies, posted in Tips, Tricks & Scripts)

aslamp wrote:

i've been looking for this for a while, and thought others might be too, so i thought i'd give a quick run down on what i'm doing.

http://i27.tinypic.com/24no7s4.jpg

pretty, i know wink

alright, first off, you gotta grab the conky source (http://sourceforge.net/projects/conky/files/), then extract it, ./configure it, with "--enable-imlib2" (source), then make and install it.

from there, install conkyRhythmbox by kaivalagi from this post (it has the album art option in it)

once everything's set, stick something like this in your .conkyrc:

${offset 69}${font AvantGardeLTMedium:size=10}${exec rhythmbox-client --print-playing-format %tt}
${offset 69}$color1${exec rhythmbox-client --print-playing-format %ta}$font${exec ret}
${exec cp "`conkyRhythmbox --datatype=CA | sed -e 's/\\\//g'`" /home/jack/.album}${image /home/jack/.album -p 0,2 -s 64x64}

the last line is the important stuff. it copies the cached album art that rhythmbox uses to a static file that conky loads with the $image tag. you'll probably wanna stick in an "imlib_cache_size 0" in there as well so it doesn't cache the file.

this can work with any player really, as long as you can find the current song's album art location.

special thanks to kaivalagi and whoever did the conky.wikia page.

hope you find it useful.

would it be possible to grab your entire conky config files? I rather like yours from the screenshot.

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