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I did find the following, if you enjoy something both useful and useless then you'll like this permanent display of the volume control, as well as the entropy in your system. (total entropy is fixed, you can use $entropy_avail $entropy_bar and for the total entropy there's $entropy_poolsize

Volume $mixerbar
Entropy $entropy_bar $entropy_avail / $entropy_poolsize

I ended up with a line
${font lucida sans:bold:size=7}${color8}${execpi 3600 aptitude search "~U"}$color $font

The second part of the output is a description and would need wrapping - not worth the effort. Once you see a couple of bright orange lines there you'll just update to remove them.

Mine is simply the part of a debian script that I borrowed. The problem is that to do apt-get update requires admin priviledges - and it's not good practice to become a sudo-er; it's up to you if you don't mind having your password in the script.

I just noticed that update-manager doesn't need a password to tell you all the information - it can check for updates immediateley, and this is how I'd rather do it. In crunchbang you hit hmmmm meta+U to update your system.

If you're paranoid about forgetting to update, then stick 'update-manager' in your startup list

NUMOFUPDATES=$(aptitude search "~U" | wc -l)
echo $NUMOFUPDATES Updates 

works in a terminal -

Output:

ben [~] NUMOFUPDATES=$(aptitude search "~U" | wc -l) 
ben [~] echo $NUMOFUPDATES Updates 
1 Updates

I'd prefer to adapt this for use in conky, but I have no expertise (only my natural genius, and that just doesn't cut the mustard).

I'd guess you'd need to grep the number of updates, and if it isn't zero, then paste an alert in big bright orange letters in conky. (or should that be bright slate-grey for #! ?)

So you can do

${execpi 3600 aptitude search "~U"}

and you didn't break any of the rules

Now, my problem is the output - my conky window is limited to 210 pixels, so the output is truncated because of the spacing:

So, if you could write a nice script that will grep and/or eliminate some spaces from this, I'll be very grateful meanwhile I'll have to make do with

I'm not quite so minimalist - but I had fun with using 'if' statements so that when I mount or plug in a USB it comes up in the list in conky, and with networking also, it will hide graphs and the weather section when the network is down.

I like coffee/winter colours - go take a look http://linuxoutlaws.com/forums/viewtopi … p;start=10

I love it Thanks to everyone here for some nice ideas ( can't say I wrote it myself, though I did write it about 10 times or more before I was finished ))

I put a few extra bits in to help newcomers (a small 'pastebin' section, a 'color reference' - that helps edit colors and enter them by having them visible as numbers 1-9 across the top etc.

Hope it makes someone's life a little easier.

When you DO make up your mind, then you're forgetting the golden rule. Opera always used to be better for most things - but Firefox has really overtaken in some areas - but they will coexist very nicely. One small problem that could be fixed in Firefox is that it has no add-on or built in ability to open a site in some other software (good for a browser which doesn't claim to be 100% compatible). If you have a Jaguar and an Aston Martin, which one will you throw off the cliff? Take it easy, the Aston might be faster on the straight, but the Jaguar is nice around the track.

Choice is golden. Nobody is right, just some are more wrong than others

I have found it works both ways - generally, I find pages that are sluggish in Firefox can fly in Opera - or at least roll a bit more smoothly, yet Firefox generally has a slightly odd rendering now (compared to Midori on webkit, Epiphany on mozilla....) which I quite like.

Hi, yes - but repositories aren't available without internet on the 4 machines at school. I guess life's very much easier in civilised countries with real internet...

I'll get the debs and save them to my flashdrive, then have another go after New year.
Thanks for the link

Number of the Beast appears on every barcode Mr Newborough B-)

Look closely at yours! They're called the 'guard' bars, to separate the numbers which are read. The three 'guard' bars, the hidden (unread) bars - they are an 'uneven parity code' binary 10100000 - 1 being black, 0 being white, you can see two thin vertical lines with a white area to the right.

Thus your self chosen alternative to the Serial Killer is the beast himself.
Trouble 'n Strife better start watching out, things seem to be going downhill rapidly!!!

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hahaha Opera :evil: is definitely a big favourite - only for people who got used to it a bit. People who love Firefox are generally very good with it, and if you develop the same skill with Firefox - then I think all things considered they are pretty equal, but different.

The biggest draw to choose Opera for your STARTING point at least, if you right click on any web page on my computer, I can 'open with...... ' and it gives a list of 'firefox, midori, netsurf, elinks, epiphany, seamonkey, seamonkey 2.0'

Some things that don't work in Firefox work well in Opera - but Firefox has the killer 'webmail' add-on. For firefox lovers everywhere, I'd like to point out that nearly all of the best features of Firefox were used in Opera since maybe 1985 - especially tabs and lovely smooth mouse gestures (firefox didn't get gestures right until 'firegestures' just a short while back).

Wow. Black and white. I don't like dark themes - but this looks very nice!

Excuse me Mr Corenominal - please feed some themes through here - not sure how to install or anything, but Gwibber needs some coffee man even black stipes wouldn't be too ugly

So I guess I'm hoping to find some way to install this on USB - perhaps have a separate partition /home, and some kind of kickstart CD (lots of computers around here with no USB boot in bios...)

Is this feasible? Such a shame you don't have an 'Office' variation. My real aim is to have a completely portable fast-booting desktop, fast booting from USB. This is so much better than Puppy at first looks!

How can I keep it in my pocket? - I'll certainly be recommending some dual-boot scenario's and handing out a few copies of discs (I consider this to be a small price to pay in return for the free download - and I am not Paypal enabled in Thailand)