Sooooo.....PWidget modified for regular Conky?

[Flash858]

I'd like to modify some Pwidgets for use in "regular Conky" so I can use the code as a script for other distros. Specifically, Weather2, which works beautifully, and gives me just what I'm looking for.

Has anyone done this?

Any and all advice is welcome, thanks!

[Flash858]

200+ views, and {crickets}...

Anyone?

[Moat]

Kind of a guess/off the top of my head, but - the Pwidget's config files are essentially "regular" conky configs, and should more-or-less run on another distro with conky installed. The most important key would be to modify the paths to those exterior scripts to which your desired Pwidgets/conky config (Weather2 in this case) points to (and vice-versa; scripts to point back at the conky config, if required) - or, conversely, set up the Pwidgets directory structure and files on your other distro to be the same as it is on Puppy (/usr/local/pwidgets/scripts/... etc - ?? I think, as I'm not on Puppy at the moment...) - that might save some work at re-doing paths.

I do recall messing around with this in the past, and was able to get some Pwidgets conkies working on Mint/Ubuntu.

Also might be worth a try manually installing the Pwidgets .pet, itself (folder by folder, file by file - unpacked and pasted, etc... all except Pwidget's conky binary - I'd try your distro's already installed conky version first, anyway) and seeing if Pwidgets might fire and run all on it's own (while ignoring the typical Linux default /etc/conky/ config path). Never tried that... but might just work.

Just some thoughts, FWIW...

Bob

[spiritwild]

I use this, simple enough for my needs. I just call it with my zipcode or location code/airport code, whatever they call it lately.



#!/bin/sh
#AccuWeather (r) RSS weather tool for conky
#
#USAGE: weather.sh <locationcode>
#
#(c) Michael Seiler 2007

METRIC=0 #Should be 0 or 1; 0 for F, 1 for C

if [ -z $1 ]; then
echo
echo "USAGE: weather.sh <locationcode>"
echo
exit 0;
fi

curl -s http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweat ... ocCode\=$1 | perl -ne 'if (/Currently/) {chomp;/\<title\>Currently: (.*)?\<\/title\>/; print "$1"; }'