Conky [Part 1]

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brenden · Post by **brenden** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:12 am

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:

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emerge sync
emerge conky

edudlive · Post by **edudlive** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:54 am

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

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:57 am

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.

CybeRDukE · Post by **CybeRDukE** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:51 pm

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!

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:13 pm

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.

Zepp · Post by **Zepp** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:08 am

ah nice I will check this out.

russianpirate · Post by **russianpirate** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:44 am

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)

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:50 am

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.

pussi · Post by **pussi** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:39 am

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.

killfire · Post by **killfire** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:15 pm

(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...)

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:42 pm

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.

whitesouls · Post by **whitesouls** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:00 pm

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..

whitesouls · Post by **whitesouls** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:07 pm

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...

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:19 pm

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.

whitesouls · Post by **whitesouls** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:17 pm

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?8)

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:50 pm

Lord Vader wrote:But the thing is...it blinks..where else torsmo doesnt blinks..any solution for that?8)

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:

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./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-xft --enable-mpd --enable-seti --enable-double-buffer --enable-own-window --enable-proc-uptime

note the --enable-double-buffer

killfire · Post by **killfire** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:29 am

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..

killfire

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 2:53 am

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..

killfire

Hmm..are you running gentoo?

Corky · Post by **Corky** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:11 pm

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..

killfire
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)

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:55 pm

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.

pussi · Post by **pussi** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:12 pm

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

mascanho · Post by **mascanho** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:12 am

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 ?

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:19 am

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.

mascanho · Post by **mascanho** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:09 pm

hum ..... Whats that option ?? How do you set it ??
If that flickering stops it would be perfect !

brenden · Post by **brenden** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:01 pm

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:

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double_buffer yes

However, for some people this is broken in 1.0. It's fixed in 1.1.