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Conky 1.7.1.1
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Wolf Pup

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PostPosted: Mon 04 Aug 2008, 23:20    Post subject:  
Updated conky to work in puppy 4 (Dingo).
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PostPosted: Sun 24 Aug 2008, 14:23    Post subject:  
Conky updated to 1.6.1
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Béèm


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PostPosted: Sun 24 Aug 2008, 15:09    Post subject:  
Is there a possibility to position conky elsewhere?
I use gnome with a top bar and it covers conky. (1.61)
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Pizzasgood


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PostPosted: Sun 24 Aug 2008, 15:14    Post subject:  
Yep. You can tell it which corner to use. Additionally, you can give it x and y offsets, to account for taskbars and what-not.

The file to edit is /root/.conkyrc.

With this particular package, the lines you're interested in are #70 - #78, which look like this:
Code:
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 12
gap_y 12


Lots of other stuff in there that you can play with.
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Béèm


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PostPosted: Sun 24 Aug 2008, 15:36    Post subject:  
Thank you Pizzasgood.
Changing the gap values did the trick.
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aoiyamoto

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PostPosted: Wed 24 Sep 2008, 01:31    Post subject:  
This is an awesome program. One thing is that when I'm in compiz-fusion it disapears if I click on the wallpaper desktop area. Also, it disapears if I type emerald --replace into the terminal.
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aussierod

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PostPosted: Wed 08 Oct 2008, 06:40    Post subject:  
Hi all, first post here, hopefully with some helpful tips for those that want to use transparency with Conky 1.6.1 in Puppy 4.0

I have a fresh Puppy 4.0 running on my small born again IBM 600E laptop with Conky 1.6.1 (My big 'puter runs Fedora 9)

I followed the instruction in post one, adding the two extra pets "libxcb and libidn" (I have qiv-2.0 in as well and haven't tried this below without it)

When installing Conky 1.6.1 an instruction file opens telling us to add two lines into /root/.xinitrc

Quote:
xli -fillscreen -onroot /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg
conky -d


The trouble is, there is no "ROX-background.jpg" installed into that location while installing Conky 1.6.1

So I grabbed a second copy of my background pic and renamed it from nwosucks.jpg to "ROX-background.jpg", then adding it into the..

/root/Choices/

Reboot, then hey presto, zero blinking and clear transparency.

Below is my conky config geared towards wifi use (WG511 v2 card)
Razz

- - - - - - -

# torsmo configuration
# set to yes if you want tormo to be forked in the background
background yes
# X font used, you can pick one with program xfontsel
# font 5x7
# font 6x10
font 7x13
# font 8x13
# font 9x15
# font fixed
# font *mintsmild.se*
# font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
# mail spool
# mail_spool $MAIL
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type desktop
# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes
# If own_window_transparent is set to no, you can set the background colour here
own_window_colour hotpink
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0
# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0
# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 160 5
# Draw shades?
draw_shades no
# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no
# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 1
# border margins
border_margin 4
# border width
border_width 1
# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color blue
default_outline_color red
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 12
gap_y 12
# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes
# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no
# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer yes
# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color white}[${color #00ff00}PuppyLinux 4.0${color white}][${color red}$nodename${color white}] -
${color #888888}$sysname $kernel ${color #CCCCCC}on ${color #888888}$machine
${color #888888}Uptime: $uptime
${color #888888}${time %b/%a/%d} ${color #00ff00}${time %k:%M:%S}
${color white}${hr 2}
${color #ffccaa}Monitors:
${color #888888}cpu: ${color #CCCCCC}${cpu}%
${color #888888}${cpugraph 25 ff0000 ff00ff}
${color #888888}ram : ${color #CCCCCC}$mem${color #888888}/${color #CCCCCC}$memmax ${color #888888}- ${color #CCCCCC}$memperc%
${color #888888}swap: ${color #CCCCCC}$swap${color #888888}/${color #CCCCCC}$swapmax ${color #888888} - ${color #CCCCCC}$swapperc%
${color #888888}load: ( ${color #CCCCCC}$loadavg ${color #888888})
${color #888888}procesos: ${color #CCCCCC}$processes ${color #888888}running: ${color #CCCCCC}$running_processes

${color #ffccaa}Network:${color #BBBBBB} wlan0
${color #888888}IP: ${color #CCCCCC} ${addr wlan0} ${color #888888}wifi signal: ${color #CCCCCC} ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}
${color #888888}DOWN: ${color #CCCCCC}${downspeed wlan0} k/s ${color #888888}UP: ${color #CCCCCC}${upspeed wlan0} k/s
${color #888888}${downspeedgraph wlan0 25,100 ff0000 0000ff} ${color #888888}${upspeedgraph wlan0 25,100 0000ff ff0000}
${color #888888}TOTAL: ${color #CCCCCC}${totaldown wlan0} ${color #888888}TOTAL: ${color #CCCCCC}${totalup wlan0}

${color #ffccaa}Free Space:
${color #888888}root : ${color #CCCCCC}${fs_used /}${color #888888}/${color #CCCCCC}${fs_size /} ${color #888888}(${color #CCCCCC}${fs_free /} ${fs_free_perc /}% ${color #888888} free)
${fs_bar /}
${color #888888}hda3 : ${color #CCCCCC}${fs_used /mnt/hda3}${color #888888}/${color #CCCCCC}${fs_size /mnt/hda3} ${color #888888}(${color #CCCCCC}${fs_free /mnt/hda3} ${fs_free_perc /mnt/hda3}% ${color #888888} free)
${fs_bar /mnt/hda3}

${color #ffccaa}Running Processes:
${color #CCCCCC}Name PID CPU% MEM%
${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color #888888} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color #888888} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color #888888} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color #888888} ${top name 5} ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}
${color #888888} ${top name 6} ${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6} ${top mem 6}
${color #888888} ${top name 7} ${top pid 7} ${top cpu 7} ${top mem 7}
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PostPosted: Thu 09 Oct 2008, 01:49    Post subject:  
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So I grabbed a second copy of my background pic and renamed it from nwosucks.jpg to "ROX-background.jpg", then adding it into the..

/root/Choices/

Reboot, then hey presto, zero blinking and clear transparency.



aussierod - superior!! Very Happy I just wish i saw that two hours ago when i first started trying to install Conky... Confused
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aussierod

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PostPosted: Thu 09 Oct 2008, 20:52    Post subject:  
Good stuff, Subito Piano

Update, I removed qiv-2.0 and it still works fine.

Thanks to Barry and all those for making PuppyLinux..

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PostPosted: Fri 10 Oct 2008, 01:59    Post subject: thanks  
aussierod, thanks

I'm writing from a Puppy 4.1, full installation.
I followed your suggestions in these steps:

installed a clean Puppy 4.1, after Conky 1.6.1 and for last applied your trick about /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg.
/root/.conkyrc leaved as the default

Now conky works well as expected.

Below you see my desktop attached.

Thanks again
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PostPosted: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 23:30    Post subject:  
I would think that you could substitute any path and any acceptable image and it would work. I haven't tried it yet, but currently I'm using the .bmp that I'd used under Win98. If it has to be a .png, well, I can always use The Gimp on my Fedora desktop to change the format.
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PostPosted: Sun 12 Oct 2008, 01:53    Post subject:  
I would think so. I tried using a wildcard (*.jpg) -- unfortunately, no go.
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PostPosted: Sun 12 Oct 2008, 13:06    Post subject:  
I was right. The location and filename used are just an example; you can use anything you want. (It makes sense, BTW; if it had to be a specific name and location, you wouldn't have to put it on the command line.)

However, there's one, small detail left: my background image is a B&W drawing, and Conky doesn't show up too well. Does anybody know where there's a listing of the names of the colors Linux uses, preferably with examples?
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PostPosted: Sun 12 Oct 2008, 13:42    Post subject:  
sideburns wrote:
However, there's one, small detail left: my background image is a B&W drawing, and Conky doesn't show up too well.

Another reason to forego the eye candy.

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Does anybody know where there's a listing of the names of the colors Linux uses, preferably with examples?


Short answer: yes.

Longer answers:

Click Menu > Graphic > gcolor2

Google (or your search engine of choice) is your friend, fgs. To wit, http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+color+codes.
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PostPosted: Sun 12 Oct 2008, 14:10    Post subject:  
alienjeff wrote:
Another reason to forego the eye candy.

dual core
only 235MB available ram
no swap

What a strange beast, did you compile the kernel yourself? How can you sleep wasting all those cpu cycles on reporting the weather in rob's backyard?
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