[ Closed ] Conky Help (Page 1 of 74)

Nice idea Hanna. Stuck

Oh okay, I haven't looked at the other thread for a while.  Thanks kBang

First of all apologies if i previously posted my question in the wrong place...
let's see if now I can do some clean up

one of the first things I needed when I started using crunchbang was the possibility of switching between keyboard layouts.

this was solved thanks to AlexelA in one of the crunchbang forums
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/4302/#p4302

next question was to have a layout indicator, I don't have a panel and I thought that conky could have done the job.

I posted my request on the "show my conky" forum and I got this suggestion from Escapado:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/15542/#p15542

it does work, I mean it does display the keyboard layout in conky
I had to use:
${execi 1 setxkbmap -v 7 | grep layout | awk '{print $2}'} instead of what suggested
but somehow it causes random crashes on my computer, i cannot use the keyboard, monitor goes black the only way out I know is to shut down.

So at the moment I have no layout indicator I understand it is not a big thing, I can live without layout indicator, but it would be nice anyway to understand what the problem is for future reference.
Anybody knows where the problem is?

I hope I didn't create too much confusion...sorry if I did,

thanks for your help

M

Thanks Pitje,

I did change the interval from 10 down to 1, because I wanted an immediate "refresh" of the keyboard layout indicator, when I had 10 seconds if I was unlucky I had to wait  9sec for it to update, I also tried to have the interval 1 sec and refresh of conky to 10 but this ended up in a nice black screen and had to reboot

thanks

m

Hey Hanna, can you do a tutorial on how to get a desktop like yours ?

Hi,

I'm wanting my conky set up to have a semi-transparent background as opposed to no background or a soid colour. Is there a way that I can set the alpha value of the background?

what about :

?

but i can't see any difference to the output while playing with that value?!

I know I'm probably the billionth person or so to have a question about conkyForecast, but here it goes... I've managed to install ConkyForecast, however, I do have a display issue with the weather font, and yes, I did try copying the fonts to my .fonts directory and I ran fc-cache.

The issue is that the display is only partially correct.  Eventually I want to tweak the .conkyrc file and make it my own, but, for the time being, I basically copied the .conkyrc file from Trouble'n'Strife from the "My Conky Config" thread.  Instead of getting the graphic image of a thermometer, followed by the temperature, I get the letter "y" followed by the temperature.  However, after the temperature, I do get the weatherfont forecast, so I know that the font is installed.  I also get the correct moon phase picture too.  For some reason, though, instead of a picture of a thermometer, I get a letter "y."

Any ideas?  If you need me to post a screenshot I will, although if you go to Trouble'N'Strife's post in the My Conky Config thread and look at her screenshot, just pretend there's a letter "y" where the thermometer is and that's what I see

- Al

>>> Edit -- After I posted this question, I looked at the .conkyrc script.  I realized that the reason I got the letter "y" was because, while I *do* have the conkyWeather font installed on my computer (since it came with conkyForecast), I do not have the "weather" font...  So, it is an issue of a missing font after all.  Where do I get the weather font?

>>> Edit 2 -- I did some searching and found another post on the "Help & Support" board from December directing another user to the conkycolors tarball that's available on gome-look.  I downloaded the file and extracted the weather font to my /~/.fonts directory, and restarted conky and problem solved.  Seeing as I solved my problem in minutes after posting this message, I considered just deleting this post from the thread, however, I think I'll leave it up, to inspire other noobs to truly utilize the search feature before asking questions that have already been answered.  Of course, if the mods disagree about the "inspirational" nature of this post, they can remove it.

Last edited by almigi (2009-04-13 16:19:04)

Thanks for your reply, Kbang.

When I installed conkyForecast the otherday, I just followed the instructions on the script creator's website (www.kaivalagi.com) and added the necessary repositories to my sources.list file and did a sudo apt-get install conkyforecast.  This installed conkyForecast and a few fonts like conkyweather and moonphases, but conkyweather and weather are two different fonts.

I eventually found the post in the "Help & Support" forum where somone asked almost the same thing, and they were told to download the conkycolors tarbell from gnome-look.org.  In that tarbell, I saw the weather font, and just extracted that one file to my .fonts directory, and that solved my problem.

- Al

I don't know if this will help you but in compiz I just added to the window shadow line: (any) & !(class=Conky)

Just a silly question if somebody already think about it:

For the weather forecast, is it possible to have something automatically at the right place with the ip address for example ?

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
    own_window yes
    own_window_transparent yes
    own_window_type desktop
    own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

I don't remember which one of these it was, but I have this in my conkyrc and no shadows.

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