#1 2016-04-23 18:15:02

joust

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Conky Scrolling. Not RSS Feeds, but actual scrolling.

Hi all,

I apologize ahead of time if this is in the wrong section or if this has been covered a billion times. I have looked online repeatedly but can't find information. I have several long conky scripts that I'd like to use as "at a glance" notes. I'd like to keep to one conky that I could scroll up and down the notes to access different sections. Is there any way to do this? Every time I try to find information; all I can find is info on scrolling RSS feeds. I'm looking to add something like a scroll bar to the side, or even just be able to tab through the conky if possible. I thought that maybe setting to normal instead of desktop while adding some undetermined variable might accomplish this? Or is this something that just isn't possible with conky? Thanks ahead of time. Feel free to tell me this belongs elsewhere...

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Re: Conky Scrolling. Not RSS Feeds, but actual scrolling.

Moved to Basic Help & Support

It may be helpful to include some carriage returns (line breaks) in your post to aid readability

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PackRat

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Re: Conky Scrolling. Not RSS Feeds, but actual scrolling.

You can try this, locate the line:

own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',

and remove the "undecorated" - that will put the usual decorations around the conky window (if "own_window = true" is also used).

However, I don't think there will be scroll bars or any way to actually interact with the window (other that moving/resizing it) like you're wanting to do.

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damo

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Re: Conky Scrolling. Not RSS Feeds, but actual scrolling.

I can think of a fiddly way to do it, with clickable conky "buttons". Click "down" and the next eg 10 lines from a textfile are loaded instead of the current 10, etc. It would need doing via a script.

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Re: Conky Scrolling. Not RSS Feeds, but actual scrolling.

Honestly - it's not possible in a native conky.

Maybe with an interactive LUA script, but that is way out of my league.  damo's hinting at that very thing.

#! Forums » Index » Tips, Tricks & Scripts: (still readable)
» interactive conky
» HOW TO : using lua scripts in conky

Setting conky to "normal" won't give you what you want.

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