Modular Papirus Conky Idea

[AVLinux]

Yes, great photo indeed! Colors should work well.

[AVLinux]

@asqwerth

I've been looking at your weather conky and I'm having some issues with getting it to find the weather svg icons (they are where they are supposed to be) and I'm getting 'jg' errors and cache errors which I'm sure is likely easily fixable but taking a second look the weather part alone is now more complex than the entire conky already is and since it's modular already it's the most complicated conky I've worked with by far..lol I have no problem admitting my limitations and for me this is ballooning into more than I want to take on. My wonderfully patient partner has already been a 'Linux Widow' most of the month with a recent AVL release and I'm still testing out a whole Enlightenment DE update so my all-consuming hobby has me all consumed..

I think it my be better if I finish what I already have here, put it up as 'Phase 1' and you can take it from there if you want to fully realize the potential of the weather part. I think you have much better conky-fu and you're already acquainted with working with the weather conky and have it running on your machine.

Sorry to not get the baton across the finish line...

[Melber]

flattery will get you everywhere

btw, I use a laptop with a 1366x768 screen...

Oh man, sorry, I had no idea you were Amish..

no, just cheap.
(Rescued it from the old hardware pile in the basement at work where it was just rusting away)

[asqwerth]

@AVLinux

Oops! It's as simple as installing jq or is it jg? I forgot that package is not part of the default install! It's what is used to parse the json file used to set out the weather data.

[asqwerth]

I'm terrible with graphics tools as well, gimp or inkscape, so drawing new graphics is not my thing.

But I am comfortable with weather conkies. And l'm happy to test drive the rest of your Phase 1 conky as well.

[AVLinux]

@asqwerth and anyone else who may be interested.

Here is a zip of the 'Modulus' Papirus Conkii (there are two folders):
https://bandshed.net/files/MODULUS_CONKII.zip

The zip contains the 2 Conky folders, both are laid out in a centered horizontal formation across the upper part of the Screen. One is for laptops with a battery module and the other is for desktops. Also included are screenshots and .desktop Launchers for people without all the MX Conky stuff installed, the Launchers can go in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications. If you use MX Conky Manager then you may not want them. Both Conkii have their launch scripts in their folder. I've put a 1s sleep interval in the scripts so the modules launch in sequence across the screen (I'm weird and like that kind of thing..)

1920x1080 resolution screenshot for perspective, I would say 1680x1050 display is about as small as you want to go for these to not look oversized. At 4K they are just nicely legible..


Let me know if there are issues, undoubtedly I've probably done something stupid...

[asqwerth]

Very nice, @AVLinux ! Using it on my lappy right now.

I like the num/caps lock indicator a lot.

From the viewpoint of an XFCE user [no idea about Enlightenment]:
1. changing the argb value does not affect the translucency, and so everything remains very ghostly and transparent, unless I set own_window_transparent as false. Once I do that, translucency can be changed with the argb value.
2. However, if I make own window transparent = true false [or not mentioned at all] , then the lua script to round corners doesn't work.
3. for the "hints" line, I need to add "below," otherwise every time I change the conky, it appears on top of other opened windows, at least for a while.

Weather conky - there's definitely something to be said for the straightforward display of temp and weather condition in text format, with the icon merely acting as an indicator as to the "type" of conky it is. I like it.

But I'll see if I can make an openweathermap version with changing weather icons.

I've found wttr.in to work well, but sometimes when traffic is high, nothing [or an error] shows, or it can take a long while for the conky to display as it tries to obtain the weather info.

[i_ri]

Hello AVLinux
No sleep s; replaced \sleep\ with semicolon.
Ran the conky on AVL-mxe.
Ran the conky on xfce
where wmcore jumped in to extend four cpu and
little orphan lua trails along.
8-|

[AVLinux]

Hello AVLinux
No sleep s; replaced \sleep\ with semicolon.
Ran the conky on AVL-mxe.
Ran the conky on xfce
where wmcore jumped in to extend four cpu and
little orphan lua trails along.
8-|

Very nice! I like the wmcore addition, haha 'little orphan'

[AVLinux]

Very nice, @AVLinux ! Using it on my lappy right now.

I like the num/caps lock indicator a lot.

From the viewpoint of an XFCE user [no idea about Enlightenment]:
1. changing the argb value does not affect the translucency, and so everything remains very ghostly and transparent, unless I set own_window_transparent as false. Once I do that, translucency can be changed with the argb value.
2. However, if I make own window transparent = true false [or not mentioned at all] , then the lua script to round corners doesn't work.
3. for the "hints" line, I need to add "below," otherwise every time I change the conky, it appears on top of other opened windows, at least for a while.

Weather conky - there's definitely something to be said for the straightforward display of temp and weather condition in text format, with the icon merely acting as an indicator as to the "type" of conky it is. I like it.

But I'll see if I can make an openweathermap version with changing weather icons.

I've found wttr.in to work well, but sometimes when traffic is high, nothing [or an error] shows, or it can take a long while for the conky to display as it tries to obtain the weather info.

Hi!

Glad it arrived in one-piece, yeah sorry I have no XFCE4 installs to test, I'm boringly Distro monogamous...lol. Prolly an ADD thing but even having a Win/AVL dual boot overwhelms me sometimes. I admire that you are fluent in so many different Distros and maintaining them! Do you also do artwork for other Distros?

Even on Enlightenment I had to find a sweet spot between the native transparency and the Lua stuff, BTW you can tune the Lua transparency in the LUA file too.

I should probably acknowledge many of the code snippets are from @ceeslans along the way... I agree wttr.in isn't a perfect solution..

Side note, on the subject of wttr.in, one of the Bodhi Linux devs (Stefan) is helping me with getting the long bit rotted Forecast module working on Enlightenment. It works in Moksha but has been broken on E for a long time he ported it to wttr.in as well..

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I'll look forward to your weather enhancements!