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brenden
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 Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:12 am Post subject: Conky [Part 1] |
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I think torsmo is cool, however the project has been dead for some time. So, I decided to fork it and continue developing it myself. Conky has come very far in a short amount of time, thanks to those who have contributed with testing and code. Conky has tons of new features, and it's progressing quickly. Check out the site:
http://conky.sf.net/
You can seek support in #conky on irc.freenode.net as well.
If you want to report a bug, request a feature, or whatever, please head over to Conky's sourceforge page at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/conky/
UPDATE:
Conky is now in portage for those interested. To check it out:
| Code: | emerge sync
emerge conky |
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edudlive
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:54 am Post subject: |
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I think this needs to go in Unsupported Software.
Great project though, keep it up 
If you contact whoever "maintains" torsmo then he might just give you the project |
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brenden
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| edudlive wrote: | I think this needs to go in Unsupported Software.
Great project though, keep it up
If you contact whoever "maintains" torsmo then he might just give you the project |
Already tried contacting them. No luck. |
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CybeRDukE
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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that's really great. looking foward to many new features 
just switched to conky and got a floating point exception on first start. i did not enable swap space but still had the swap-line in conkyrc. removing that line fixed the issue. perhaps you should take care of that as special case.
btw, the man page still mentions torsmorc as configuration-file
good luck with your new project! |
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brenden
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| CybeRDukE wrote: | that's really great. looking foward to many new features
just switched to conky and got a floating point exception on first start. i did not enable swap space but still had the swap-line in conkyrc. removing that line fixed the issue. perhaps you should take care of that as special case.
btw, the man page still mentions torsmorc as configuration-file
good luck with your new project! |
Thanks for the info. I applied the swap patch, and it's okay on my system, however I will take another look at it. I forgot to update the man page as well. I'll probably have a new release by the end of next week, hopefully with lots of fixes and new features. |
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Zepp
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| ah nice I will check this out. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| try making it so it intergrates with nautilus.. so nautilus and conky can run in the same root window (dont want another window floating around, or no nautilus showing) |
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brenden
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| russianpirate wrote: | | try making it so it intergrates with nautilus.. so nautilus and conky can run in the same root window (dont want another window floating around, or no nautilus showing) |
This is more of a problem with nautilus. I'm not going to bulk up the code with GTK stuff, so if you want to use Conky with nautilus you'll have to suffer with a floating window. The nice thing about Conky is that it's still quite lite, and I want to keep it that way. |
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pussi
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:39 am Post subject: |
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Is there any way to make it work better with Xorg's composite?
Now you can't see torsmo/conky below translucent window, or shadows until it refreshes. |
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killfire
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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(brenden, hope you got my pm.. i have a few things to add)
my two ideas are:
have a $tab variable
make variables that are percents be fixed width (3 characters)
i think this is a great idea...
(i also noticed that the maintainers were very unresponsive...)
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brenden
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| pussi wrote: | Is there any way to make it work better with Xorg's composite?
Now you can't see torsmo/conky below translucent window, or shadows until it refreshes. |
I think this is more a problem with Xorg then a problem with conky. My only suggestion is to try running it as it's own window. I am looking at trying to fix this though. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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brenden brother.... i used to do this to torsmo -b to fork it to background..so that it wont blink..so whenever i kill it..the torsmo will be there as a dead body..no moving thing.. how do i do it in conky...
Thanks for taking up the the project...Torsmo is a really a cool..i mean a real damn cool monitor..
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whitesouls
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Aight...i managed to figure it out...conky is the same as torsmo...Looking for a well writen manual pages for newbies like me.. ... Most of the things works fine for me..Thank you brenden...
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brenden
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Lord Vader wrote: | | Aight...i managed to figure it out...conky is the same as torsmo...Looking for a well writen manual pages for newbies like me.. ... Most of the things works fine for me..Thank you brenden... |
Conky is totally compatable with torsmo as far as command line and config goes. |
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whitesouls
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| brenden wrote: | | Lord Vader wrote: | | Aight...i managed to figure it out...conky is the same as torsmo...Looking for a well writen manual pages for newbies like me.. ... Most of the things works fine for me..Thank you brenden... |
Conky is totally compatable with torsmo as far as command line and config goes. |
But the thing is...it blinks..where else torsmo doesnt blinks..any solution for that?
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brenden
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Lord Vader wrote: | | But the thing is...it blinks..where else torsmo doesnt blinks..any solution for that? |
perhaps you could post your ~/.conkyrc?
EDIT:
This also just occurred to me:
if you download and build conky yourself, make sure you enable everything:
| Code: | | ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-xft --enable-mpd --enable-seti --enable-double-buffer --enable-own-window --enable-proc-uptime |
note the --enable-double-buffer |
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killfire
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just downloaded the dev snapshot and i compiled it, or tried to...
it complained about missing proc/procps.h and proc/readproc.h...
so i looked around, and downloaded the source for procps, and copied the folder from their source to yours, and then it worked...
so a minor bug, you probably just missed the folder...
will try it out now..
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brenden
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| killfire wrote: | just downloaded the dev snapshot and i compiled it, or tried to...
it complained about missing proc/procps.h and proc/readproc.h...
so i looked around, and downloaded the source for procps, and copied the folder from their source to yours, and then it worked...
so a minor bug, you probably just missed the folder...
will try it out now..
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Hmm..are you running gentoo? |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| brenden wrote: | | killfire wrote: | just downloaded the dev snapshot and i compiled it, or tried to...
it complained about missing proc/procps.h and proc/readproc.h...
so i looked around, and downloaded the source for procps, and copied the folder from their source to yours, and then it worked...
so a minor bug, you probably just missed the folder...
will try it out now..
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Hmm..are you running gentoo? |
I had to do the above as well to get it to compile, which it did, and it runs fine. The only problem is, if I run 2 conky's at the same time using different configs, they blink constantly with half a second or so between them, sorted of like a cheap disco 
(I also built it with all the options on)
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Corky wrote: | I had to do the above as well to get it to compile, which it did, and it runs fine. The only problem is, if I run 2 conky's at the same time using different configs, they blink constantly with half a second or so between them, sorted of like a cheap disco
(I also built it with all the options on) |
Turns out there was a bug in the configure script (thanks autoconf) in 1.0. It will be fixed when 1.1 hits portage, and it's fixed in the dev snapshot at http://conky.rty.ca
Sorry about this. |
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pussi
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Corky wrote: | | The only problem is, if I run 2 conky's at the same time using different configs, they blink constantly with half a second or so between them, sorted of like a cheap disco :P |
torsmo has this same problem when double buffering is enabled. it works perfect without it |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:12 am Post subject: |
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I Think that stoping the flickering would be neat , i dont use it a lot, but one of torsmo things (bad thing) is its constatly flickerijng due to its refresh, is that issue fixed on conky ?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| mascanho wrote: | | I Think that stoping the flickering would be neat , i dont use it a lot, but one of torsmo things (bad thing) is its constatly flickerijng due to its refresh, is that issue fixed on conky ? |
Double buffer fixes this usually. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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hum ..... Whats that option ?? How do you set it ??
If that flickering stops it would be perfect !
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| mascanho wrote: | hum ..... Whats that option ?? How do you set it ??
If that flickering stops it would be perfect ! |
It's an option in the config:
However, for some people this is broken in 1.0. It's fixed in 1.1. |
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