Modular Papirus Conky Idea

[asqwerth]

Sure


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@AVLinux

the weather one certainly is adorable

I was about to offer you - for your adaptation - a small conky with script [adapted from Merope conky to remove all the system info and lua rings] that displayed temperature, and the weather condition graphically [from a pictorial font, also included]. It's set against an image background, which I thought you could replace with whatever icon image file you wished.

But it's certainly nowhere as cute as the one you came up with.

Merope-onlyweather.png

[asqwerth]

Here is an archive file with everything you [or anyone else wanting to try it] need to try it out.

https://app.box.com/s/syslb77dhaa5ywuwag3d1n6equkm6w3j

Just open the included weather-2.0.sh file and enter in your own city code. The openweathermap api key was included there by the conky creator, but you can replace with your own if you have one [which I do]

The attribution file is included so you can seek out the whole Merope conky if you want. My Arch-based distros have conky packages that don't run lua scripts [you need to install the unofficial conky package from AUR to get lua] so I sometimes adapt conkies to remove lua.

[AVLinux]

Hi @asqwerth !

Thanks for putting that together, great idea! I'll have a look. Having something that changes Icons with the weather type would be pretty cool, This whole idea is so image heavy as you noted so making the conky elements pop can be tricky.. I suppose a custom papirus-y looking quieter background icon could be made up to backdrop your merope images. My idea is just using bone simple wttr.in lines but it works too. I'll dig into it evenings this week

[asqwerth]

Hi @asqwerth !

Thanks for putting that together, great idea! I'll have a look. Having something that changes Icons with the weather type would be pretty cool, This whole idea is so image heavy as you noted so making the conky elements pop can be tricky.. I suppose a custom papirus-y looking quieter background icon could be made up to backdrop your merope images. My idea is just using bone simple wttr.in lines but it works too. I'll dig into it evenings this week

I have to admit I couldn't let this idea die, once I realised from your earlier "adorbs" screenshot that Papirus has nice weather icons. So I've made a folder with openweather-compatible Papirus weathericons and made a weather conky where the icons change with the weather condition. The relevant lines are adapted from various openweather-based conkies, including zagortenay's conky-vision.

The conky uses the same weather-v2.0.sh script but the script to convert the weather id codes to font/text is no longer needed. I forewent an image background and just set own_window_colour to something other than #000000 that could contrast against the weather icons. There are 2 variations - one with just icon weather condition and one that adds weather condition in text as well.

Merope-onlyweather-papirus.png

Merope-onlyweather-papirus-text.png

Just download the archive from the link below, and extract the conky scripts and the folder of Papirus weather icons into the same folder with the Merope conky above.
https://app.box.com/s/uaffwqlpad9lu6uvyoz3etaufq75r3tr

[Jerry3904]

Those are nice!

[AVLinux]

Wow, some good potential, hope my kindergarten conky-fu is up to it, this is going to be a very busy conky folder! I'd like to preserve the existing 80x80 image size and template I have and I've needed to work with Icons in GIMP to define them better and up the contrast otherwise they appear quite washed out looking. Will be a fun challenge, thanks for the ideas and resources!

*NOTE for image quality the actual PNG's I'm using are 512x512 derived from importing the SVG files.. @Melber will be disgusted with me but I know very little about SVG and Conky..

[Melber]

*NOTE for image quality the actual PNG's I'm using are 512x512 derived from importing the SVG files.. @Melber will be disgusted with me but I know very little about SVG and Conky..

skeptical-fry.jpg

[CharlesV]

Since your currently working with weather :-) ...

Here is a background for ya that is in alignment with your background colors AND all about weather ;-p
Most of the backgrounds I am about to submit are much lighter or more color driven, but this one...

[Jerry3904]

Strikingly handsome!

[CharlesV]

Strikingly handsome!

Glad you like it. That is one of my favs. ( have xscreensaver set to power through A LOT of my favorite lake and sunsets I have taken.. its very cool just just seem them continuously. :-) )