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battleshooter
 Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia |
Conky with Lua Compiled and tested on Lucid 5.28  
For Saluki users, have a look here. Conky's simpler to setup in Saluki because it has real transparency so the instructions below are not needed Additionally, be aware the instructions below are for people without a composite manager running. If you have XFCE with compositing or Compiz or the like running, you can just install the first 3 pets and all should be well, no need for the .xinitrc hacks. Pets: conky-1.8.1.pet liblua5.1-0_5.1.4-5_i386.deb libiconv-1.14.pet feh-1.3.4.pet The first 3 pets are Conky and its dependencies. Feh is a background setter I use to create an illusion of transparency. Installation: After installing pets... Step 1: In the file /root/.xinitrc place the line feh --bg-scale /root/.background in the same place as the picture. 
Step 2: In the file /usr/local/apps/Wallpaper/set_bg add these lines to the end of the file:
Reset your wallpaper. Basically what both these steps are doing is creating a fake layer of your background so Conky can pretend it's transparent. Step 1 is to get the fake layer created every time X is restarted, Step 2 is getting the fake layer to be created every time a new wallpaper is selected with Nathan's Wallpaper Setter. From here you can run a conkyrc file with:
Conky Theme Switcher 
The following pet is a bit of a joke, I don't know know a thing about gtkdialog, but I managed to hack Puppy's icon switcher into a Conky config switcher.   Naturally it's experimental due to my skill level 
conkyswitcher_widescreen-0.01.pet conkyswitcher_normal-0.01.pet The only difference between the 2 pets is the settings of the 2 Conky config files I included in them. By "widescreen" I mean about 1200x800 and by "normal" I mean 1024x768. So pick the closest resolution. If you have a completely different resolution (netbook?), give me a shout out and I can help you tweak the config so it looks decent. The menu entry is in Desktop->Desktop Settings->Conky switcher. I'm a bit tired at the moment so let me know if I missed anything or said something absolutely absurd 
Battleshooter _________________ Kdenlive for Saluki Openshot for Saluki Edited_times_total |
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battleshooter
Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia |
Questions I've Invented To Answer Myself: My icons have all disappeared! Conky is fighting for supremacy with the ROX pinboard. The icons won't show up where Conky is, but will show up around the Conky parameters. Apparently there's a workaround, but I'm still working on it. Reference: Question 5 Wbar has disappeared! Restart Wbar by typing killall wbar and then /root/Startup/wstart to start Wbar again. How do I tweak Conky to fit my resolution? Start by changing these variables in /root/.conky/themename/conkyrc:
Minimum size should be your screen resolution to start off with, then you can experiment and cut the values down to see how small you can make the Conky without chopping parts of it up (if you still care about seeing your icons) Maximum should be your screen resolution. After that, look for the TEXT section. "voffset" is the vertical position of the variables that follow after it and goto is the horizontal position of the variables that follow after it. Play around with the values to get a feel for it. How can I add my own themes to Conky Switcher? Conky themes are kept in /root/.conky/themename. The Conky configuration file should be named "conkyrc" and kept in its theme folder. There should also be a picture of width 400 called "preview.jpg". This obviously is the preview picture you see on the left. I downloaded a Conky file and it doesn't work! First thing I usually do is look for all paths in all files and set them correctly. Most of the time they are set to the theme's author's home directory  so change them to the correct locations. Besides path and screen resolution related errors, sometimes there are calls to programs you don't have. Try running Conky manually with:
And look at the errors. Either install the program missing or delete the line out of the TEXT section in conkyrc. Some new themes Some new themes setup in widescreen mode (1200X800) but they might still work without editing on different resolutions because of the way they're setup. Conky Lua Rings The famous Conky lua rings. Unfortunately the creator never gave them a name so I guess "Conky Lua Rings" is the official name? 1 pet, 3 colors, blue, green and orange. I've disabled the Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu logos, but if you uncomment the line you can set it to display a Puppy logo instead. Download 
Links to green and orange screenshots. Bionic I've disabled the wireless monitor because it doesn't work on my setup, but if you want to try it, you can enable it again. An organic looking Conky? In case you couldn't tell- Conky is on the right of the screen 
Download 
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Lobster
Official Crustacean  Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15117 Location: Paradox Realm |
Are you using wbar too or just conky? Have you tried this with Puppy 5.3? _________________ Puppy WIKI |
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battleshooter
Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia |
Hey Lobster, Yeah, I've been using Wbar with Conky. They compliment each other well I haven't tried this on 5.3 yet. Only on 5.28.
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battleshooter
Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia |
Added 2 new themes that can be used with or without Conky switcher. They will install to /root/.conky _________________ Kdenlive for Saluki Openshot for Saluki |
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konaexpress
Joined: 13 Oct 2011 Posts: 41 |
Stupid question for you guys. Conky is cool but a pain to use for a mouse guy, how hard would it be to make a program in Python, Gambas or Bacon to import/export/inventory and replace pre made Conky files? |
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stu90
 Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 1401 Location: England. Dell Inspiron 1501. Dpup |
Not sure about Python, Gambas or Bacon - but for a simple conky theme switcher say with a drop down menu of available themes not hard at all using Yad for the GUI. |
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konaexpress
Joined: 13 Oct 2011 Posts: 41 |
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stu90
Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Posts: 1401 Location: England. Dell Inspiron 1501. Dpup |
Yad is a GUI for bash scripts - i think it comes already installed in most of the new pups now - just type yad in terminal to find out. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58306 Here is a simple Yad conky theme changer and theme adder. Not sure if it works with battleshooter's Lua or not but does work with standard conky. 
remove the fake .gz from then end of the script file name - and make it executable and click on it to run.
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battleshooter
Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia |
Hey konaexpress, that's what I was trying to do with Conky switcher:
Basically clicking on the Conky theme you want, will set it up to run. To install new themes, click on a theme pet, like these ones: Bionic Conky Lua Rings
Interesting, I'll test it out. I think it should work with Lua if all it is doing is just pointing to a conkyrc file to use. _________________ Kdenlive for Saluki Openshot for Saluki |
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einar
Joined: 12 Nov 2010 Posts: 157 |
can i use this in the upcoming Saluki ? or LH64 ? |
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battleshooter
Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia |
I'm not sure about the Conky pet and the Conky Switcher, but the themes will certainly work because they are just text files and images designed to work with Conky. _________________ Kdenlive for Saluki Openshot for Saluki |
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xfirebg
Joined: 25 Aug 2011 Posts: 2 |
battleshooter , man you are awesome! Thanks for the tutorial! |
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XBlackChaosX
Joined: 16 Oct 2011 Posts: 51 |
I'm kinda new to puppy or linux for that matter so i honestly didn't understand the instructions, i think these themes look sick but i don't have the slightest clue as to how to install it since i didn't get what you were saying. Can someone please explain this to me in a way that a linux noob like myself can understand? |
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battleshooter
Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia |
@xfirebg Thanks man
@XBlackChaosX No worries we were all inexperienced once.
First off what Puppy version are you using? These instructions were written for Puppy 528 without real transparencies enabled. _________________ Kdenlive for Saluki Openshot for Saluki |
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