Modular Papirus Conky Idea

[AVLinux]

Thanks!

Putting way too much time into this... hopefully will have something to share this week..

Any licensing experts here? Some of the images/vectors I personally purchased from iStock and my own shutterstock account most of them were eps files that I cut around like a kindergarten child in GIMP. Since I lawfully bought them and then heavily modified them there shouldn't be any problem sharing them in a Conky? If I used them on a web page or a print article I would be free to use and distribute them correct? I'm not a license zealot though so I don't think about the ramifications of this, the iStock licenses certainly didn't forbid it as far as I could see.

Simple but readable weather conky and redesigned home (these are larger and more square than the Papirus set):

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Now just the battery one to finish on my laptop later...

@ceeslans I may need some expertise, so far I'm not having much luck with a lua bg... I added own_window_transparent = yes, and have to do a lot of playing with BG opacity values to get these images to pop nicely. Even now they look much better on dark BG than light.. Since these are square the matching square corners don't offend me too much..

*ADDED The whole gang covering all the drives on this computer (some fine tuning left):

[asqwerth]

very cool!

[ceeslans]

I may need some expertise, so far I'm not having much luck with a lua bg... I added own_window_transparent = yes, and have to do a lot of playing with BG opacity values to get these images to pop nicely. Even now they look much better on dark BG than light.. Since these are square the matching square corners don't offend me too much..

I take it that transparency is enabled in your setup (either pseudo or through compositor).
When the own_window_argb_visual and own_window_argb_value settings are active, then own_window_transparent should not be set to yes|true ; they don't play nice with each other. Suggest you disable own_window_transparent again (or comment it out by placing ' -- ' at the beginning of its line) and then find the best value for own_window_argb_value.
In fact, I've disabled the loading of draw_bg.lua or transbg.lua altogether (simple because I need to load clock_conky_110.lua to display @asqwerth's clock conky - and afaik it is not possible to load two lua scripts in the same widget). I've cranked up the own_window_argb_value to 144, which stands out still quite okay against a light background. Your miles may vary, just check out with even higher values.
And yes, this means that the dark background will show as a square... Unless you run a compositor like 'picom' where a 'corner-radius' rounding can be set.

[asqwerth]

..... I've disabled the loading of draw_bg.lua or transbg.lua altogether (simple because I need to load clock_conky_110.lua to display @asqwerth's clock conky - and afaik it is not possible to load two lua scripts in the same widget).....

Nice clock mod! And yes, I believe it's not possible to run 2 lua scripts in the same conky widget.

A lot of older conkies use an image file as the background, but often you get the ugly black border around it, if the image is smaller than its "canvas". I use the image.lua script to display the background in these conkies without the black borders. But it doesn't work if the conky is already running with another lua script, for example a progress bar.

[AVLinux]

Hmmm,

I abandoned the old terminal and made a 'badge plate' kind of idea, will need to let it sit for a bit and see if it settles, it does allow for the matching upper left corner dot text for uniformity... Going pretty retro here, the 'flat' crowd will be appalled but I'm enjoying a skeumorphic renaissance this month...

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@ceeslans

Thanks for the transparency advice. I see you've done more perfecting to Papirus, very nice! Haha do you wear a lab coat with a micrometer in the pocket when you use the computer?

*ADDED

A complete BS LED digital CPU % display, I forgot how fun GIMPing can be..

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[AVLinux]

OK,

Here is the 'E-Modulus' Modular Conky taking you back to a time before Flat was where it's at, when Desktops were a skeumorphic wonderland full of curves, shadows and dimension, kinda like a Russ Meyer film (but actually not like that at all)... Are we going back in time or is this the beginning of the end for Flat-mania...? Time will tell I guess...

Here is the basic setup on a 1920x1080 Laptop:



And a more complete example on a scaled 4K Desktop with various Drives and Partition types:



Download is here:

https://bandshed.net/files/E-MODULUS_DISTRIB.zip

Zip contains the Conky folder, images, RC files, Fonts and an example startup script for a Laptop, as with all Conkii you will get the best results on your own system by doing your own modifications to the RC files to best suit your own system..

*NOTE - The images were a combination of legitimately purchased files combined with my own creations, I saw nothing in the license agreements that should prohibit their use in a distributed Conky.

[asqwerth]

....... Are we going back in time or is this the beginning of the end for Flat-mania...? ......

I still like flat theming and icons, provided the drawings/design and colours are appealing to me. Papirus is still nice in my eyes.

However, I do like flat with a bit more polish and gradienting, so kora and Antu-Universal are excellent.

And I like Newaita, which is kind of flattish but does try to present icons that look like what they are supposed to represent.

My all-time fave non-flat icon set is still Buuf and its more updated fork [by Nestort] - which are more steampunk/medieval.


And oh yes, cute conky set and icons!

[AVLinux]

Hehe, thanks!

Don't take me too seriously, I'm pretty much dead center in the old Flat vs. Skeuo debate. As you know better than I there are lots of ways to pull a look together.

[asqwerth]

@AVLinux

I note that you use
own_window_type = 'desktop',


I believe the default nowadays is 'normal'

When I used your conkies with 'desktop" (albeit on MATE on my PCLOS install), the conky appeared when enabled and then just disappeared when I opened/unminimized a window on top of it.

AFter I changed the setting to 'normal', there were no more issues.

If I recall correctly, KDE plasma is also finicky about the own desktop type setting.

[AVLinux]

@AVLinux

I note that you use
own_window_type = 'desktop',


I believe the default nowadays is 'normal'

When I used your conkies with 'desktop" (albeit on MATE on my PCLOS install), the conky appeared when enabled and then just disappeared when I opened/unminimized a window on top of it.

AFter I changed the setting to 'normal', there were no more issues.

If I recall correctly, KDE plasma is also finicky about the own desktop type setting.

No particular reason, just trying different things from the common Conky pages, on Enlightenment it doesn't seem to make a difference but for sharing purposes I'll try and stick with 'normal' in the future.