#2081 2024-05-16 08:26:41

johnraff

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Re: Show us your conky

^Thanks for confirming this!
I was wondering why I suddenly had to change all the 3-digit colours to 6-digit to make things work.

3 digit colours in conky?
Never heard of it, can you show an example please.

I've already seen that and I think @johnraff means that:
https://encycolorpedia.com/000077
But I know the special conditions for this hex number #007 not.

Yes that's what I meant. On Beryllium I still have a working conky with colours like this:

conky.text = [[
${color}RAM:${color 6B9} ${mem} ${membar}
${color}CPU:${color F22} ${cpu cpu0}% ${cpubar cpu0}
]];

3 digits and no hashmark. But for Boron on my laptop I had to upgrade them to 66BB99 etc.

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Re: Show us your conky

:)
You have always been ahead of your time. Not for nothing were you awarded the title 'El Conkystador'.

No not ahead of my time.  Just following the man pages.

Samples from a very old file I have "/media/5/Conky/00_TIPS_N_STUFF/CONKY_MANUAL.txt"
I'll shorten it and just use the pertinent text:

own_window_colour colour
    Takes either a hex value (#ffffff) or a valid RGB name (see /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt)
    NOTE: 2024 05 16: (see /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt) no longer exists
                → SEE: /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt
colorN
    When specifying the color value in hex, omit the leading hash (#).

cpugraph (cpuN) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) (-l)
    CPU usage graph, with optional colours in hex, minus the #.

diskiograph (device) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) (-l)
    Disk IO graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #.

diskiograph_read (device) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) (-l)
    Disk IO graph for reads, colours defined in hex, minus the #.

diskiograph_write (device) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) (-l)
    Disk IO graph for writes, colours defined in hex, minus the #.

downspeedgraph (netdev) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) (-l)
    Download speed graph, colours defined in hex, minus the #.

loadgraph (1|2|3) (height),(width) (gradient colour 1) (gradient colour 2) (scale) (-t) (-l)
    Load1 average graph, similar to xload, with optional colours in hex, minus the #.

/media/5/Conky/00_TIPS_N_STUFF/00.00.MAN-conky.1-9.txt

       own_window_colour colour
              If  own_window_transparent no, set a specified background colour (defaults to black). Takes ei‐
              ther  a  hex  value  (e.g.  ffffff,  note  the  lack  of  '#')  or  a  valid  RGB   name   (see
              /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt)

etc. etc.

/media/5/Conky/00_TIPS_N_STUFF/00.MAN-conky.1.10.txt

       own_window_colour colour
              If  own_window_transparent no, set a specified background colour (defaults to black). Takes ei‐
              ther  a  hex  value  (e.g.  ffffff,  note  the  lack  of  '#')  or  a  valid  RGB   name   (see
              /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt)

etc. etc.

/media/5/Conky/00_TIPS_N_STUFF/00.MAN-conky.1.18.3.txt
→ seem there is no "own_window_colour" or "own_window_color"
HOWEVER:

       colorN Predefine  a color for use inside conky.text segments.  Substi‐
              tute N by a digit between 0 and 9, inclusively.  When  specify‐
              ing the color value in hex, omit the leading hash (#).

etc. etc.

I was encouraged buy some very friendly people on the Ubuntu form when I first started conky to:
Read The Friendly Manual

Now saying that I have seen some people using #RRGGBB and others RRGGBB.
I've used RRGGBB since Jan 2008

:cool: :)

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Re: Show us your conky

Man pages for v9, v10 and v18 also have this:

       color (color)
              Change drawing color to 'color' which is a name of a color or a hexcode preceded  with  #  (for
              example  #0A1B2C ).  If you use ncurses only the following colors are supported: red,green,yel‐
              low,blue,magenta,cyan,black,white.

BUT since I use "colour" and not "color" I use colour without the # and NEVER had a problem.

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unklar

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Re: Show us your conky

very accurate! 

loutch

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Re: Show us your conky

Hello

New weather conky

without smarphone

with smarphone

background images is current condition.

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Re: Show us your conky

Hello

New weather conky

without smarphone

https://i.postimg.cc/8fgrhDbw/Capture-d-cran-2024-05-16-16-52-49.png

https://i.postimg.cc/9rn7cv4x/Capture-d-cran-2024-05-16-16-57-54.png

with smarphone

https://i.postimg.cc/Nyr7hQp7/Capture-d-cran-2024-05-16-16-52-14.png

https://i.postimg.cc/4n47VJVL/Capture-d-cran-2024-05-16-16-57-13.png

background images is current condition.

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Nice!
Link for my smartphone?

I've had Overmorrow Weather on my smartphone for three days.

Last edited by unklar (2024-05-16 15:23:45)

loutch

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Re: Show us your conky

Hello

Nice!
Link for my smartphone?

I've had Overmorrow Weather on my smartphone for three days.

Leider kein Link für Smartphones es ist keine App es ist nur mein conky mit

https://prevision-meteo.ch/services

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Sorry no link for smartphone it's not an app it's just my conky with

https://prevision-meteo.ch/services

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Re: Show us your conky

But the "smartphone" is an image.

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Re: Show us your conky

very accurate! 

I try hard

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Re: Show us your conky

3 digit colours in conky?
Never heard of it, can you show an example please.

I've already seen that and I think @johnraff means that:
https://encycolorpedia.com/000077
But I know the special conditions for this hex number #007 not.

Yes that's what I meant. On Beryllium I still have a working conky with colours like this:

conky.text = [[
${color}RAM:${color 6B9} ${mem} ${membar}
${color}CPU:${color F22} ${cpu cpu0}% ${cpubar cpu0}
]];

3 digits and no hashmark. But for Boron on my laptop I had to upgrade them to 66BB99 etc.

Mind blown! I've never see that before in 17 years of playing with conky.

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marens

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Re: Show us your conky

I've never see that before in 17 years of playing with conky.

I can confirm that I have never seen and used in conky.

But I did use (similar to #ccc) in gtk themes.
In some distros (not all) there were errors due to this and I gave up.
It was a long time ago, but I remember that the color picker helped me solve the problem.

I still use old good Gcolor2 (.deb) today.

If I run Gcolor2 and type the 3-digit (#6B9) color used by @johnraff > Enter, I get this (#66BB99):

I don't think there is any mystery here.

Conky has some limitations, but it basically supports hexcode.

       color (color)
              Change drawing color to 'color' which is a name of a color or a hexcode preceded  with  #  (for
              example  #0A1B2C ).  If you use ncurses only the following colors are supported: red,green,yel‐
              low,blue,magenta,cyan,black,white.

Yes (that's it), but there is nothing about the 3-digit hexcode.

P.S.
I use magenta for a extreme UV Index and my Conky (1.10.8) works fine so far.

Last edited by marens (2024-05-17 01:14:20)

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marens

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Re: Show us your conky

After a week of testing, I can say that my new weather conky works flawlessly.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 74#p134474

I did make a few improvements though:

1) I was a bit better at converting .gif icons to .png
2) The gold separator is now symmetrical
3) The 5-day forecast is only updated once (between 11:00 and 13:00) and I added a note at the end: * Updated on server
4) I made a small (compact) conky in the style we are used to

 

There are no night icons, but I wrote a script that shows the current images in grayscale with redshift and imagemagick.
When the redshift goes into night mode, imagemagick turns the current icon to gray.

This is a simulation:

 

The icons are unusual, but I won't change them for now.
I like it after VClouds (Gis Weather) and Forecast_Images_2015/2016 (ACS).

Last edited by marens (2024-05-18 15:48:21)

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loutch

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Re: Show us your conky

Hello

Great job

Unlike accuweather which has changed many times, my conky with Openweathermap and my very old API key still works.

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marens

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Re: Show us your conky

^ It's always a nice surprise to see the old conky working.

I think the best solution for you is to use your own weather conky (from a local source).
There you can find the latest and most accurate data for your location.

It is true that Gis Weather and AccuWeather also work great and the differences are small.
Openweathermap doesn't work well for my location, but maybe someone else has a different experience.

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Re: Show us your conky

So many fancy conkys. Needed to update my old conky so i just grabbed the old conky i have been using in past and updated it for my current needs on various machines that are all OLD except my current rig

Pretty fun stuff learning to set this up. Know nothing about Lua or conky internals from before

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Re: Show us your conky

Always nice to update things, especially conkys.

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marens

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Re: Show us your conky

My new weather conky from a local source does not have an hourly forecast, data about the moon (sun)... , but there are still many things that can be used.

Cloud radar (Satellite image):

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loutch

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Re: Show us your conky

Hello

Here's some coding to help me forget my headache since i got home from hospital. It's accuweatherAPI. Look like Weewx

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marens

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Re: Show us your conky

I hope it's nothing serious @loutch.
I wish you a speedy recovery mate.

Conky is very nice (as always), but that doesn't matter today.

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Re: Show us your conky

@ loutch

Get well soon.  That's the big one.

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