Conky Help

Döbbie03 · 2015-10-17 21:52:50

To all the Conky experts,

Is there any way to have individual lines in conky in capitals rather than changing "uppercase no" to "uppercase yes" which makes the entire config in capitals.

ohnonot · 2015-10-18 06:12:58

i always check here:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
compare variables/config file settings.
"uppercase" is only in config file settings, not in variables.
answering your question based on that: no.

(if i'm really desperate i open the man page documentation of my current install, resides in /usr/share/doc/conky* - maybe something has changed since 1.8)

Döbbie03 · 2015-10-18 06:24:48

ohnonot wrote:

i always check here:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
compare variables/config file settings.
"uppercase" is only in config file settings, not in variables.
answering your question based on that: no.
(if i'm really desperate i open the man page documentation of my current install, resides in /usr/share/doc/conky* - maybe something has changed since 1.8)

Thanks for the link, I though that no would be the answer. Worth a shot to ask just in case

nore · 2015-10-18 06:25:48

Workaround: use an uppercase font for that individual line and a different font for the others.

damo · 2015-10-18 06:28:03

You can have individual lines as caps, if you write them as caps, obviously. But do you mean "how to display piped-in values as caps"?

Döbbie03 · 2015-10-18 06:33:31

damo wrote:

You can have individual lines as caps, if you write them as caps, obviously. But do you mean "how to display piped-in values as caps"?

What I want is the value to be displayed in caps. For example I have an Audacious script for currently playing album, song and artist. The band name and song are in a font which would look better in capitals but the album name needs to be in lower case otherwise it looks like shit. So I would like to select what I want displayed in caps rather than hae the whole config in caps.

ohnonot · 2015-10-18 06:39:45

hack the font in question with e.g. fontforge, to be all caps. (as per nore's workaround)
it's a very good program, and for this kind of hacks the learning curve is shallow.

Last edited by ohnonot (2015-10-18 06:40:47)

Döbbie03 · 2015-10-18 06:41:54

ohnonot wrote:

hack the font in question with e.g. fontforge, to be all caps. (as per nore's workaround)
it's a very good program, and for this kind of hacks the learning curve is shallow.

That is a brilliant idea. Good thinking.

Cheers

tknomanzr · 2015-10-18 14:40:54

Pipe your output like this:

http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Howto:_ … _uppercase

damo · 2015-10-18 14:44:24

tknomanzr wrote:

Pipe your output like this:
http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Howto:_ … _uppercase

Or

${str^^}

nore · 2015-10-18 15:34:44

damo wrote:

Or ${str^^}

This works also with diacritic letters, not just a-z; that may be important with some band and song names, judged by Dobbie's taste of music.

Döbbie03 · 2015-10-19 04:38:49

Thanks guys I will test to see which way works best.

johnraff · 2015-12-14 02:54:45

Just to keep the "Scripts, Tutorials & Tips" area free of support questions, this has been moved to "Help & Support (Other)".

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