[ Closed ] Conky Help (Page 32 of 74)

I've got a conky question here....

I want to display a weather radar image in conky. I wrote a tiny script to download the animated gif from the weather website and I call this in conky, and use the conky built in command to display the image.. so far so good. My two problems:

1) I want to use that last frame from the .gif, so I can display the most current image. Is there a command line way of doing this (so I can add it to the script)? Perhaps imagemagick?
2) For some reason, conky does not seem to execute the script. I'm pretty sure the rights to the file are set just fine. I've added to relevant code below.

The two relevant lines from the conkyrc file:

${texeci 300 /home/erik/bin/knmi_radar.sh}
${image /home/erik/bin/meest_recente_radarloop451.gif -p 0,560 -s 200x200}

The script (real simple, I just learned how to do this whole scripting thing, so any comments are welcome):

#!/bin/bash
#
# Erik
# 2010-07-31
#

# Enter the name of the radar GIF image you want to download:
RADARIMAGEURL="http://www.knmi.nl/neerslagradar/images/meest_recente_radarloop451.gif"

# Download the GIF file:
wget -q -N -t 1  "$RADARIMAGEURL" # quiet, timestamping, 1 retry

# Split the file, leave only the last frame. This might be tricky, because the 
# frames seem to share one background frame...

Thanks Iggy, any idea why conky is not updating the picture?

Gifsicle is giving me some problems, but I think I can get that to work.

Good point, I don't think so, I'll check that later at home.  But the bigger problem is, conky doesn't run the script... I.e: if I delete the picture and restart conky, it doesn't display anything at all. But if I run the script manually and then restart conky, it does show it. Weird huh.

Hi, I've just added arplinux's 'zen-lua' script to conky (which works to a certain degree). After adding it to my start up script it takes control of my desktop, making me unable access anything.

When I run the script via terminal this is what I get:

:~$ conseg.sh
Conky: desktop window (9a) is root window
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2200001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_ring_stats execution failed: /home/greenys/scripts/zen-rings1.lua:157: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'value' (a nil value)
Conky: desktop window (9a) is root window
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2400001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_ring_stats execution failed: /home/greenys/scripts/zen-rings2.lua:131: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'value' (a nil value)
Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_ring_stats execution failed: /home/greenys/scripts/zen-rings2.lua:131: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'value' (a nil value)

Can anyone help?
Oh, thanks to arplinux for his mini how to and scripts from deviant art, lua and cairo has had me stumped for ages, and now I get it (kind of).

should have put it in your todo list

im guessing you could do

${eval ${execpci 300 cat ~/documents/todo | awk '// {print "${alignr}" $0 }'}} 

the awk section adds '$alignr' to each line, eval evals it, the awk section should work, not sure about the conky parts tho.

Last edited by benj1 (2010-08-25 14:05:36)

Why don't you just type the to-do things in your .conkyrc? That's what I did

Ah I see. Sorry for misunderstanding it. To me having it directly in my .conkyrc is good enough, as I made an entrie to edit the config file in my main menu. I don't know how it's with you guys, but when I change and safe my .conkyrc, conky automatically restarts

thanks, that worked perfectly!
Just need to go dig around and figure out what those commands do! 

and Unia, I just like to be able to have the todo in a text so I can grep it for tags, and not have to edit around the rest of the conky file.  But, that is the glory of choices.

This will be my last post in this thread so I can stop going off-topic.  But if you are interested, go to todotxt.com.  I plan on making something similar but in ruby.  No real reason.  I will of course post it around here somewhere, most likely for help!

I have 2 different to do lists

-  one of them is for long-term items and is handle by Conky, using a text file called TODO.txt that is in my home folder:  $alignc ${execi 30 cat /home/oupsemma/TODO.txt}

- the second one is for short-term items and is integrated in Openbox menu, I found it in Arch forum:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=91544
the script to download is here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openb … enbox-todo

Screenshots here:
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/2599/todo.png
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7350 … dentry.png
it gives you a small GUI to edit or delete your to dos.

Last edited by oupsemma (2010-08-26 04:48:07)

Try adding  ${exec echo '#!'} to your Conky script before the #!

like magic.  thanks for the help.