Show us your conky

Sector11 · 2016-09-29 19:06:18

Doruletz wrote:

@Sector11:
My apologies, Sector11, I was not aware of any of those facts.

I'm sorry if you took this in a negative way, it was not my intention at all and for that I apologize.
No need for you to apologize either.

And just since I'm here. Another fun fact about Kaivalagi.

Just before conky got the ${image ...} command Mark (Kaivalagi) created "gtk-desktop-info" that basically did what all of his conky python scripts did BUT included images in the weather. I wrote this a LONG time ago:

Sector11 wrote:

This one, below, is interesting, K’s stopped using “conky” when he created gtk-desktop-info. It is NOT a conky app!! It was more advanced than Conky v1.6.1, it allowed for images and such, but also a lot more complicated if one doesn’t understand “HTML Stylesheets” However since Conky v1.7.2 he has dropped this and come back to Conky. I link to it here just for nostalgia.
Although I never stopped using conky, this is what I created with it when I was still using Xubuntu Intrepid and Conky v1.6.1 to show my weather, of course I had a Conky version the same with the weather “font” for when I was displaying Conky:
Today, Conky does all that and more today. OH, and K built in all his conky apps with templates too, so it was as light on resources as conky. Good man, K, ARCH is going to benefit with his presence.
Happy conkying.

lcafiero · 2016-09-29 19:12:56

Sector11 wrote:

@ nore - I suppose that 'could' be the case <snip>

I'm willing to give Doruletz the benefit of the doubt here. But I do want to point out that English may not be Sector11's first language -- correct me if I'm wrong, Sector11 -- but English is my first language, I make my living with it as a writer and an editor, and I interpreted "newcomer legend" in the same way Sector11 did before the clarifications followed.

Now let's play nice, everyone.

Sector11 · 2016-09-29 19:15:32

Doruletz wrote:

@Head_on_a_Stick:
Thanks for that, "Head_on_a_Stick".
They both do the same thing, what is your argument for preferring grep over cat?
I'm not all that proficient with Bash yet, so I take every chance I get to learn something....
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
^ Leave that poor cat alone!
${alignr 20}${execi 1000 grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'| uniq}

If I may ... HoaS is simply 'eliminating' a process: - cat

Your original line cat's 'the file' then greps 'the info', HoaS's line simply greps 'the info' directly from 'the file'

Sector11 · 2016-09-29 19:25:47

lcafiero wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
@ nore - I suppose that 'could' be the case <snip>
I'm willing to give Doruletz the benefit of the doubt here. But I do want to point out that English may not be Sector11's first language -- correct me if I'm wrong, Sector11 -- but English is my first language, I make my living with it as a writer and an editor, and I interpreted "newcomer legend" in the same way Sector11 did before the clarifications followed.
Now let's play nice, everyone.

Canadian, and Canadian English is my mother tongue. Please, I should have kept my mouth shut, I meant no disrespect to Doruletz, VinDSL or anyone. Just wanted to clear up a point.

@ Doruletz - I remember you from #! and I am sorry for any mixup.

Now: Lets Conky!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-09-29 19:30:49

Doruletz wrote:

@Head_on_a_Stick:
Thanks for that, "Head_on_a_Stick".
They both do the same thing, what is your argument for preferring grep over cat?

There is no preference, my point was that the `cat` command in your string is entirely unnecessary -- `grep` works on files so there is no need to pipe the output of `cat` to it.

My string uses three commands (`grep`, `sed` & `uniq`) whereas your string uses four commands (`cat`, `grep`, `sed` & `uniq`) and has the exact same output.

Using my version saves (a few) processor cycles and a hot microsecond, maybe more

Also, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Un … use_of_cat

EDIT: @all -- sorry about the drift, I really can't help myself sometimes.

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PackRat · 2016-09-29 19:44:23

Using my version saves (a few) processor cycles and a hot microsecond, maybe more big_smile
Also, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Un … use_of_cat
EDIT: @all -- sorry about the drift, I really can't help myself sometimes.

Efficient coding - gotta love it. And no drift, IMO - inefficient coding can turn conky to bloat in a hurry. Use to be a user dk75 at #! - that person was a great resource for coding - conky or otherwise; made some great contributions.

Sector11 · 2016-09-29 20:04:02

OH YEA - dk75 Awesome person ... great stuff ... followed his work closely. Wonder what happened to him.

In fact some of the scripts I have here date waaaaay back.

Here's one of my favourite dk75 scripts - an "awk" script for a vertical calendar with a twist:

in conky:

${execpi 7200 ncal -h | /media/5/Conky/scripts/ncal.awk}

ncal.awk

#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
# based on: cal.C512.sh
# a bash script by Crinos512
#####################################################################
#                                                                   #
# ncal.awk script by dk75                                           #
#                                                                   #
# usage:                                                            #
# ncal -h | ncal.awk             - if Sunday is a first day of      #
#                                  the week                         #
# ncal -h | ncal.awk monday=TRUE - if Monday is a first day of      #
#                                  the week                         #
#                                                                   #
#  ${execpi 7200 ncal -h | /media/5/Conky/scripts/ncal.awk}         #
#                                                                   #
#####################################################################

BEGIN	\
{
	weekend[1]=7
	weekend[2]=1

	if ( ARGV[1]=="monday=TRUE" )
	{
		weekend[1]=6
		weekend[2]=7
	}

	today=strftime("%02d")
}

NR==1	\
{
	month=$1
	year=$2
}

NR>1	\
{
	gsub(/ {4}/," 0 ", $0)
	days[NR-1,1]=$1
	days[NR-1,2]=$2
	days[NR-1,3]=$3
	days[NR-1,4]=$4
	days[NR-1,5]=$5
	days[NR-1,6]=$6
	days[NR-1,7]=$7
}

END	\
{
	#############################################################
	# preparing and formatting data                             #
	#############################################################
	for ( i=1; i<=7; i++ )
	{
		for ( j=2; j<=7; j++ )
		{
			days[i,j]=sprintf("%02d", days[i,j])

			if ( days[i,j]=="00" )
				days[i,j]="··"

			if ( days[i,j]==today )
				days[i,j]="${color6}"days[i,j]"${color}"
			else
				days[i,j]="${color}"days[i,j]"${color}"
		}

		if ( i==weekend[1] )
			days[i,1]="${alignc}${color6}"days[i,1]"${color}"
		else if ( i==weekend[2] )
			days[i,1]="${alignc}${color6}"days[i,1]"${color}"
		else
			days[i,1]="${alignc}${color1}"days[i,1]"${color}"
	}
	# ###########################################################

	#############################################################
	# displaying data                                           #
	#############################################################
	#print "${alignc}${color6}"month"${color}"

	for ( j=0; j<=1; j++ )
	{
		for ( i=1; i<=7; i++ )
		{
			printf "%s %s %s %s\n", days[i,1], days[i,2+j], days[i,4+j], days[i,6+j]
		}
	}

	#print "${alignc}${color6}"year"${color}"
}

He's another one that could have been on my list of mentors, as well as you PackRat - got a lot of you here too.

Doruletz · 2016-09-29 20:04:30

@lcafiero:

I suppose you are referring to the weather and hardware temperatures from the MATE panels, right? The weather data retrieval on those is done completely by MATE. I just selected the "Add to Panel" option and input my user data. The Hardware Sensors Monitor only need lm-sensors to be installed and configured, since it does not come installed by default in Linux Mint, but is available in the official repositories.

When I first started using Linux in April of 2010, I experimented with Ubuntu for a very short time after which I fell in love with Linux Mint. Never used anything else since.
I fool around with other distros for a few hours at most, but Linux Mint is my true love.
I adored Gnome 2, and ever since Ubuntu went all Unity over Gnome 3, Tablet on steroids kinda crap, Linux Mint was the first distro to fork Gnome 2 over the new Gnome 3 shell. This was first done by a guy from Argentina, Perberos, thus the MATE name.
It is not Mate, as in G'day Mate from down-under, it is MATÉ, as in the "Yerba MATÉ" tea they drink in Argentina and Uruguay. You can listen to the correct pronunciation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pi_HRk5OXk

The MATE desktop was quickly embraced by most Mint developers, including Clem (Clement LeFebvre) who is the "Big Kahuna" at Linux Mint.
KDE is a power hog eye candy, build for the widget world of the tablet / phone / apps and interface.
Never liked Cinnamon either, and XFCE is mostly a lightweight for old hardware, plus from what I know it comes almost but naked out of the box, you gotta configure each and every tinny little thing by hand. Fedora and OpenSuse are more for servers and such, both being to complicated for day by day household or small business use.

lcafiero wrote:

Looks nice -- a little too elaborate for my needs, but as far as eye candy goes, it looks great . Just curious about something: On the top toolbar toward the right -- is that the same data that's in your Conky or is it something else?

Last edited by Doruletz (2016-09-29 20:05:03)

Sector11 · 2016-09-29 20:14:04

@Doruletz - Mate is great - drink it every morning for breakfast and during the day as well. Surprised the hell out of me when it became a desktop too.

mate a different way to get your caffeine fix!

Doruletz · 2016-09-29 20:30:46

No harm done, Sector11, I'm just glad we clarified things here.
I know you're Canadian by birth, as you may remember a discussion we had on #!about the metric system (the we have 10 fingers, not 12 or 16 argument), and that's when you told me that you're a "Kanuck"...
I was born, raised and educated in Romania, the land of Dracula, Nadia Comaneci and the best hackers in the world.
I've been living in the US for over 22 years now, first 10 in Ohio and the rest in Tennessee.
And now, just like you said, let's Conky...

Sector11 wrote:

lcafiero wrote:
Sector11 wrote:
@ nore - I suppose that 'could' be the case <snip>
I'm willing to give Doruletz the benefit of the doubt here. But I do want to point out that English may not be Sector11's first language -- correct me if I'm wrong, Sector11 -- but English is my first language, I make my living with it as a writer and an editor, and I interpreted "newcomer legend" in the same way Sector11 did before the clarifications followed.
Now let's play nice, everyone.
Canadian, and Canadian English is my mother tongue. Please, I should have kept my mouth shut, I meant no disrespect to Doruletz, VinDSL or anyone. Just wanted to clear up a point.
@ Doruletz - I remember you from #! and I am sorry for any mixup.
Now: Lets Conky!

Doruletz · 2016-09-29 20:46:15

Although I'm pretty sure you can find an Argentine Cafe in the US, I never had a chance to try MATE, but I would love to.
However, I'm a huge fan of the Brazilian an Argentine "Churrascaria" Steak Houses.
One of my favorite T-Shirts says:
"V-E-G-E-T-A-R-I-A-N" is a native American Indian name for BAD HUNTER.
And to keep the Universe in balance, I am not a Leo Messi fan. I used to be a Diego Forlan fan for a while, around the 2010 World Cup.

Sector11 wrote:

@Doruletz - Mate is great - drink it every morning for breakfast and during the day as well. Surprised the hell out of me when it became a desktop too.
mate a different way to get your caffeine fix!

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Sector11 · 2016-09-29 21:55:31

^ OH Hell, I remember that conversation ... Dracula and Nadia's perfect 10. How she captured the hearts of the world!
{checking} ... YUP; I'm still metric ten fingers and ten toes.

But it "C"anuck not K

Bad Hunter ... Love it! Then you'd like the real thing. That being my favourite place before a couple of 'stents' in my heart put a stop to that kind of eating. 8.( 8.(

I'm not into football (soccer) but I do like Rugby! Los Pumas.

Mate is available in the US this is the same brand I drink: Cruz de Malta. If you are going to try it, get a cheap plastic bombilla first and use a regular tea cup. If you like it then invest in a "good" bombilla amd "mate" (the gourd) although we use a ceramic and a glass one - they're easy to clean and don't need replacing like the 'real' gourds do - unless you drop them

Doruletz · 2016-09-30 17:08:07

Well, according to the American Urban Dictionary both Kanuck and Canuck are used here, and I just found out now that for Americans, the term has become a derogatory name for Canadians.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kanuck

Not that big of a rugby fan myself, but I do like the All Blacks (New Zealand), especially the way they do the Maori war dance HAKA. Used to watch the 5 Nations Tournament in Europe as a child.

Anyhow, I'm glad we cleared the air, and reconnected, so now let's Conky...

Sector11 wrote:

^ OH Hell, I remember that conversation ... Dracula and Nadia's perfect 10. How she captured the hearts of the world!
{checking} ... YUP; I'm still metric ten fingers and ten toes.

But it "C"anuck not K
Bad Hunter ... Love it! Then you'd like the real thing. That being my favourite place before a couple of 'stents' in my heart put a stop to that kind of eating. 8.( 8.(
I'm not into football (soccer) but I do like Rugby! Los Pumas.
Mate is available in the US this is the same brand I drink: Cruz de Malta. If you are going to try it, get a cheap plastic bombilla first and use a regular tea cup. If you like it then invest in a "good" bombilla amd "mate" (the gourd) although we use a ceramic and a glass one - they're easy to clean and don't need replacing like the 'real' gourds do - unless you drop them

Doruletz · 2016-10-01 13:10:05

OK, here is the final result for one half of my System Conky (the other half to follow soon):

https://s15.postimg.org/5rvdj7fnf/Screenshot_2.png
https://s13.postimg.org/ov0cgsurr/Screenshot_1.png

Since I only have a single PC with Wi-Fi, I took the snapshots on it, so you can see both Network Monitors in action...
CPU is an Intel Core i3-3200, as you can see.

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Last edited by damo (2016-10-01 17:24:29)

Doruletz · 2016-10-01 17:08:14

OK, it's done!

Here it goes...

On my main PC I don't have Wireless, so it shows idle, dead...
I've never seen the logic of having wireless in a Desktop, except for the small form factor, when used as a Media Center PC hooked up to a big screen TV in the family room or living room.
No matter what, wireless will always be slower than LAN, and unreliable at times...

And here's another one, with my Weather Conky as well...

Almost run out of screen space, so NO MORE.

Let me know what you think, guys...

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EDIT: If that's the rule, we'll obey it...
Tiny pictures it is!
I usually don't even bother to look at post stamp size pics in websites, unless it's something I really, really want or need, but that's just me...

Last edited by Doruletz (2016-10-01 17:27:32)

damo · 2016-10-01 17:19:05

@Doruletz

Please edit your posts to use thumbnail images, as per Forum policy

Please use thumbnails
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We recommend http://scrot.moe for image uploads. Thank you very much, mr.neilypops!!!
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Doruletz · 2016-10-01 17:21:40

If you tell me how, I will...
I was under the impression that when posting pictures you want them as big as possible, so people can actually see them, but I guess it's all about bandwidth and storage space, isn't it?

damo wrote:

@Doruletz
Please edit your posts to use thumbnail images, as per Forum policy
Please use thumbnails
Do not embed images larger than approx 250x250px (62,500px) into posts, use thumbnails linking to a hosted image instead
We recommend http://scrot.moe for image uploads. Thank you very much, mr.neilypops!!!
Avoid the large thumbnail www.imgur.com code, use the "medium" link thumbnail. An example of the code:
[url=http://imgur.com/your_image_code][img]http://i.imgur.com/your_image_codem.jpg[/img][/url]
Notice the m in your_image_codem.jpg in the IMG code block
Users have been using www.postimage.org lately which does a nice job and is Multi-lingual as well. Upload your image to the site and grab the Thumbnail for Forums code.
Example BB-code from imgbox.com:
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                   ^ fullsize image                ^ thumbnail
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Please use the [Report] button to let moderators know of images that are too large. Thank you!

damo · 2016-10-01 17:29:31

Doruletz wrote:

If you tell me how, I will...

Either use an image host which provides thumbnail links, or upload your own reduced images. You have just quoted the Forum HowTo I posted!

I was under the impression that when posting pictures you want them as big as possible, so people can actually see them, but I guess it's all about bandwidth and storage space, isn't it?

See my sig for Forum Guidelines, and the first post in each monthly screenshot thread. If people with bandwidth or data allowance problems want to see the full images then they have the choice of clicking on the thumbnail.

Sector11 · 2016-10-01 17:34:26

I'm sorry damo, I should have mentioned that to Doruletz as well, since I'm active here and noticed it before as well.

Doruletz · 2016-10-01 18:48:39

OK, understood and obeyed. I changed to thumbnails.

damo wrote:

Doruletz wrote:
If you tell me how, I will...
Either use an image host which provides thumbnail links, or upload your own reduced images. You have just quoted the Forum HowTo I posted!
I was under the impression that when posting pictures you want them as big as possible, so people can actually see them, but I guess it's all about bandwidth and storage space, isn't it?
See my sig for Forum Guidelines, and the first post in each monthly screenshot thread. If people with bandwidth or data allowance problems want to see the full images then they have the choice of clicking on the thumbnail.

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