MX Linux Forum

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:25 am**

OK, this thread is to get some user experiences with the MX conkies that are about to appear with the MX-17 beta 1. During alpha development the Dev Team concentrated on the functions and the GUI of MX Conky, and a lot of progress was made. There is still work to do, but we have a fully operating system now so it's time to look at the default conky collection. For background, take a look at the MX Conky Help file.

Two first-order questions:
1) does anyone with a default installation of B1 have trouble with a particular conky not showing up at all when Conky Manager is open and the conky's box is checked? They have all been tested against the alpha series of MX-17, but strange things sometimes happen.
2) second, how is the size on your particular screen? Some will be too small, some too large, and some just right.

goldilocks.jpeg

Please include with any comments on these questions the output of

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inxi -G

There's no reasonable way to reduce or enlarge some of the conkies, either because they are too big or too complicated; we're just going to leave those alone. There are some, however, that can easily be scaled. A model is provided by MX-Cowon, where the author has supplied a "less" and a "more" size--compare the {font <somefont_and_size>} tags in the bottom TEXT part of his two conky scripts to see what he has done.

We're looking in this thread for solutions, not just problems. If a conky looks too big or too small on your setup, it would be terrific is you could take the time to fiddle with the font sizes and try to solve it. If it works, paste the script into a post inside code tags and give us a small image of what it looks like.

This should be fun, and the Community is in position to make an important and unique contribution to MX-17 Final--thanks a lot for your help!

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:28 am**

MX Gotham: On a large hdpi screen system info is small and hard to read.
Modified conky below. Also changed colors to my liking. You cam ignore color changes.

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use_xft yes
xftfont 123:size=8
xftalpha 0.1
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0

own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_colour 000000
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 0

double_buffer yes
minimum_size 870 550
maximum_width 600
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color ffffff
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color black
alignment bottom_right
gap_x 10
gap_y 30
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 1
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer yes
minimum_size 870 550

TEXT

${voffset -5}${color EAEAEA}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=100}${time %I:%M}${font}${voffset -70}${offset 8}${color 72B7C1}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=35}${time %e} ${voffset -15}${color EAEAEA}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=22}${time  %B} ${time %Y}${font}${voffset 24}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=58}${offset -148}${time %A}${font}
${voffset 12}${offset 12}${font Ubuntu:pixelsize=20}${color 72B7C1}SSD ${offset 9}$color${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}${offset 30}${color 72B7C1}RAM ${offset 9}$color$mem / $memmax${offset 30}${color 72B7C1}CPU ${offset 9}$color${cpu cpu0}%

Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.48.0 / 4.9.0-3-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)
version: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:44 am**

MX-Gotham:

Using MX Conky to change the month to 'Short', with no other changes, causes the Day to overlap the Time:

Screenshot.png

I don't know enough about Conky to correct it, but I will have a try.

Chris

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:46 am**

@Rich: very helpful, thanks.

What happened to the color declarations that we need for MX Conky to work? In the default script:

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#colors
##hour,minute
color0 EAEAEA
##day of month, month, year
color1 black
##day of week
color2 D23B86
##line 2: system parameters
color3 black
##line 2: system values
color4 black

Can you please add those declarations back in and correct the TEXT to match them (with color1, etc.), so we can store this as a functional MX conky in the hdpi category?

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:48 am**

chrispop99 wrote:MX-Gotham:

Using MX Conky to change the month to 'Short', with no other changes, causes the Day to overlap the Time:

Screenshot.png

I don't know enough about Conky to correct it, but I will have a try.

Chris

You will need to increase the offset code in front of the day

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:51 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:@Rich: very helpful, thanks.

What happened to the color declarations that we need for MX Conky to work? In the default script:
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#colors
##hour,minute
color0 EAEAEA
##day of month, month, year
color1 black
##day of week
color2 D23B86
##line 2: system parameters
color3 black
##line 2: system values
color4 black
Can you please add those declarations back in and correct the TEXT to match them (with color1, etc.), so we can store this as a functional MX conky in the hdpi category?

My bad I already had Gotham I had edited before your color code changes. I will modify.
EDIT: Somewhat tied up with other things so will get to it later.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:34 am**

@chris: that one is particularly complicated b/c the offsets are linked to each other. I will look at it later when I get a sec

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:23 am**

MX-Gotham:

With a 1024x768 resolution, the Conky is partly covered by the panel:

Screenshot.png

Changing the gap_x 100 value to gap_x 50 corrects this, and also looks acceptable to me on higher resolution screens.

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use_xft yes
xftfont 123:size=8
xftalpha 0.1
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0

own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_colour 000000
own_window_argb_visual no
own_window_argb_value 0

double_buffer yes
#minimum_size 250 5
#maximum_width 500
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color white
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green
alignment top_middle
gap_x 50
gap_y 20
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 1
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer yes

#colors
##hour,minute
color0 EAEAEA
##day of month, month, year
color1 black
##day of week
color2 D23B86
##line 2: system parameters
color3 black
##line 2: system values
color4 black

minimum_size 0 200
TEXT

#line 1
${voffset 10}${color0}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=120}${time %I:%M}${font}${voffset -84}${offset 10}${color1}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=42}${time %e} ${voffset -15}${color1}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=22}${time  %B} ${time %Y}${font}${voffset 24}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=58}${offset -200}${color2}${time %A}${font}

#line 2
${voffset 1}${offset 12}${font Ubuntu:pixelsize=12}${color3}HD ${offset 9}$color${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}${offset 30}${color3}RAM ${offset 9}$color$mem / $memmax${offset 30}${color3}CPU ${offset 9}$color${cpu cpu0}%

Chris

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:43 am**

Thanks. For others viewing this post: that x_gap change can be done with Conky Manager, where it is called "Horizontal gap" on the location tab.

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/help-files/help-conky-manager

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:26 am**

@Jerry, Will you entertain other changes to conkys, for example color changes to elements and image additions like the mx logo? Also deletion of some info that does not fit on an hdpi screen when fonts are increased. Or is that going too far?

Following are minimal changes to Gotham. Text changes to system info editing config file, and color changes using MX Conky.

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use_xft yes
xftfont 123:size=8
xftalpha 0.1
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0

own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_colour 000000
own_window_argb_visual no
own_window_argb_value 0

double_buffer yes
#minimum_size 250 5
#maximum_width 500
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color white
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green
alignment top_middle
gap_x 100
gap_y 20
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 1
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer yes

#colors
##hour,minute
color0 EAEAEA
##day of month, month, year
color1 3bbdd2
##day of week
color2 3bbdd2
##line 2: system parameters
color3 3bbdd2
##line 2: system values
color4 black

minimum_size 0 200
TEXT

#line 1
${voffset 10}${color0}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=120}${time %I:%M}${font}${voffset -84}${offset 10}${color1}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=42}${time %e} ${voffset -15}${color1}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=22}${time  %B} ${time %Y}${font}${voffset 24}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=58}${offset -200}${color2}${time %A}${font}

#line 2
${voffset 1}${offset 12}${font Ubuntu:pixelsize=16}${color3}HD ${offset 9}$color${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}${offset 30}${color3}RAM ${offset 9}$color$mem / $memmax${offset 30}${color3}CPU ${offset 9}$color${cpu cpu0}%

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:44 am**

Thanks.

I don't really know yet what I'm doing. Just color changes don't interest me ATM, aiming for good functionality. Figure later we will set up a general post-your-Conky thread.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:48 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:Thanks.

I don't really know yet what I'm doing. Just color changes don't interest me ATM, aiming for good functionality. Figure later we will set up a general post-your-Conky thread.

Sounds good. Then except for the color changes I made the Line 2 code shows the font size changes. That is all that I had to do, no gap or offset changes

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:08 am**

MXCoreBlue is real nice. All info not displayed. It cuts off after the process table. Adjusting font size, in this case making it smaller, makes it too small to see on an hdpi monitor. The only way I can see to fix it is to remove some of the information. I can do that and present it, but will desist doing so for other comments.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:14 am**

chrispop99 wrote:MX-Gotham:

With a 1024x768 resolution, the Conky is partly covered by the panel:

Not only that, but it also covers the installer icon on the desktop. Can the conky be aligned to the top-right corner?

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:28 am**

Can the conky be aligned to the top-right corner?

Of course, a single click with Conky Manager takes care of it. I would rather see the install icon be moved if possible (top center?) so that the screen's balance lower R, upper L) is retained.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:38 am**

I mean by default, not having to drag it. Think about a new user who wants to install MX, they will need to know that the installer is hidden under the conky and they will need to know how to drag the conky to fee the installer... very user-friendly...

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:41 am**

No, I understood that. I think if we stay with Gotham, and I'm not convinced that is a good choice, that something should move before the next development version.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:42 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:No, I understood that. I think if we stay with Gotham, and I'm not convinced that is a good choice, that something should move before the next development version.

by default, MX-gotham was set to align top_left. I actually changed the version that is running by default to align top_middle (last nite was a long nite), but its just too big for a 1024x768 screen.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:45 am**

In GeekyTowerLogo the file path for the conky-harddisk script is wrong. It has an additional "MX-Conky/" that should be deleted and the capital letters in the path need to be followed exactly.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:50 am**

Thanks.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:47 pm**

I've booted to live quite a few times so far. A couple of times, on different hardware, Conky is corrupted.

Screenshot.png

The 'Minutes' appear to be over-writing each other, and it continues to get worse.

Chris

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:50 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote:
Can the conky be aligned to the top-right corner?
Of course, a single click with Conky Manager takes care of it. I would rather see the install icon be moved if possible (top center?) so that the screen's balance lower R, upper L) is retained.

I don't think we can move the installer icon. If so, its tricky. I'll look into it.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:58 pm**

ToZ wrote about that recently:

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11839

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:12 pm**

chrispop99 wrote:I've booted to live quite a few times so far. A couple of times, on different hardware, Conky is corrupted.

Screenshot.png

The 'Minutes' appear to be over-writing each other, and it continues to get worse.

Chris

Could you have more than one version of Gotham ticked in Conky Manager, with your sessions saved on logoff?

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:14 pm**

I have time now to look at it, and will get back.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:39 pm**

OK, not too bad after you've seen a few of these:

--I started by selecting as you did to reduce the name of the month to the short form, and got the same mess you did.
--I used the list of Time Formats in Scripts to identify the code for day of the week: A
--looked for the offset in front of that, found ${offset -200}
--changed that number to -250, saved--and it was worse, meaning I had it going the wrong way
--changed it again to -150, and it looked pretty good

Hope this is clear as a procedure.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:10 pm**

asqwerth wrote:
chrispop99 wrote:I've booted to live quite a few times so far. A couple of times, on different hardware, Conky is corrupted.

Screenshot.png

The 'Minutes' appear to be over-writing each other, and it continues to get worse.

Chris
Could you have more than one version of Gotham ticked in Conky Manager, with your sessions saved on logoff?

It was as it appeared from a live boot, so no.

Chris

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:24 pm**

I saw this happen over-write once. But as soon as I moved it with ALT+right click it went away.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:01 pm**

Good observation: the background window (visible when transparency=opaque) might be interfering again.

@chris: here is the TEXT portion of what I ended up with:

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TEXT

#line 1
${voffset 10}${color0}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=120}${time %I:%M}${font}${voffset -84}${offset 10}${color1}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=42}${time %e} ${voffset -15}${color1}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=22}${time  %b} ${time %Y}${font}${voffset 24}${font NBGrotesk-R:pixelsize=58}${offset -150}${color2}${time %A}${font}

#line 2
${voffset 1}${offset 12}${font Ubuntu:pixelsize=12}${color3}HD ${offset 9}$color${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}${offset 30}${color3}RAM ${offset 9}$color$mem / $memmax${offset 30}${color3}CPU ${offset 9}$color${cpu cpu0}%

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:19 am**

In MX-Core blue, the script needs to be corrected by changing "undecorate" to "undecorated"

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own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below

Also, the Syslog command is not working, but I don't know how to fix it

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${execi 10 tail -n6 /var/log/syslog | awk '{print " ",$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10}' | fold -w40}

What we would like to see is what you get with this bash command:

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sudo cat /var/log/syslog | tail

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:27 am**

I did a web search on this topic, and it looks pretty complicated, so I'm going to take that last part out for the next version.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:45 am**

Jerry,
{partially moved from the beta1 discussion]

This is a personal question of style and taste.
I would not go with the big conky as default. It looks nice on an empty desktop, would make a nice distrowatch screenshot, but for everyday use, too big, and it will be covered in other windows pretty fast. The old MX16 did not have conky on the desktop by default.

I never really used it much my self, only really appreciating it since I installed antix 17.

If it easy to select one of the other 35 conkys, then no problem.

How do I remove the current, and change to a different one?
How can I just get the antix one, it meets my needs.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:50 am**

On removal and change, please see the detailed Help file. To stop the conky open Conky Manager and unckeck the box.

About the antiX conky, you need to post that on the antiX Forum, since I believe they have a wrapper of some kind around it.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:00 pm**

Note to Dev Team: we may want to have a Conky toggle in Favorites if we stay with showing one by default.

Name: Conky on/off
Description: Start or stop the selected conky

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:02 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote:Note to Dev Team: we may want to have a Conky toggle in Favorites if we stay with showing one by default.

Name: Conky on/off
Description: Start or stop the selected conky

Good idea, given multitude of tastes and display differences

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 3:09 pm**

Opened conky manager and unchecked everything.

Copied .conkyrc from Antix to a thumbdrive, then copied to ~/home/my name/
Started it up and

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 4:04 pm**

If you want to be able to manage it with the rest of the conkies, remove it from there and put it in ~/.conky/ THen you can use Conky Manager and MX Conky. Check the Help file on how to convert it to a form that MX Conky can use if necessary.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 4:26 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote:If you want to be able to manage it with the rest of the conkies, remove it from there and put it in ~/.conky/ THen you can use Conky Manager and MX Conky. Check the Help file on how to convert it to a form that MX Conky can use if necessary.

Thank you.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 4:51 pm**

opened ~/.conky/
Made a folder labeled Antix, placed .conkyrc in it.
Conky manager sees it and it works fine for me. THANKS!!!

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:00 pm**

So now open MX Conky, and see if it recognizes the colors being used. If not, then add color declarations following the directions in the Help file.

Posted: **Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:13 pm**

The colors are fine just the way they are.
My eyes are 74 years old, read not to good, and I use the dark background and the transparency is great.
I did open MX Conky and tried playing with the colors and when closed, I had to push the start button until it shut down. Lots and lots of errors.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:54 am**

MX Conky confused me initially as previews were unavailable in the new app and selecting another theme required stopping and selecting an alternative, which took several experiments to catch onto for me, although pleasant customisations are obviously available once a Cony theme is selected.
I
I would be inclined to begin with the Conky Manager I know to select theme then tweak it via the nice new MX Conky tool. I will test a few themes once I become more familiar and append here:

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:18 am**

I would be inclined to begin with the Conky Manager I know to select theme then tweak it via the nice new MX Conky tool.

That's exactly what the sentence at the top of MX Conky says, right?

MXC_top.png

And the Help file repeats the same, and adds much greater detail.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:29 am**

True although it was particularly difficult to read on my install,, as I mentioned. I sussed it out pretty quickly all told and got it soon enough. I really like the colour options it affords as I've never tinkered with Conky scripts here (reflecting from an advanced beginner mode

).

Have added my favorite Conky as attached and look forward to exploring the placement and date options.

I much appreciated having MX Tweak to set double-click actions efficiently, per habit.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:48 am**

it was particularly difficult to read on my install

Why was that exactly? If we make the text larger or bold it, would that help?

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:49 am**

The following is a review of all the MX conky's in MX 17 beta 1 on an hdpi screen. My display is 1920x1280, Samsung 22 inch. For the purposes of this test I will retain the default dpi of 96, although I usually increase it to 120. In general, except for those I have already modified, and In the interest of time I will not propose font size changes as editing all these conkys to get the right size can be time consuming. This list will be added to in this post as I have time to evaluate them.

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Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.9.0-4-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)
           version: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6

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1. MX Gotham
System information, Disk, Ram, CPU can use a larger font and spaced more below the date lines. But I think as it is would overwhelm smaller screens.
[code]#line 2
${voffset 1}${offset 12}${font Ubuntu:pixelsize=20}${color3}HD ${offset 9}$color${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}${offset 30}${color3}RAM ${offset 9}$color$mem / $memmax${offset 30}${color3}CPU ${offset 9}$color${cpu cpu0}%

2. MX-Asq.clock
OK as is.

3. MX-geekytower logo
Text too small except for Time which is OK

4. MX-comuterlove
Text too small

5.MX-Coreblue
1. Text too small except for clock block
2. Bottom panels do not show.

6. MX-Cowan_less
OK as is.

7. MX Cowan_more
Too big, not necessary for hdpi

8. MX_Elementary
OK as is

9. MX-emays
System info text could be larger and move down away from time block

10. The 5 GoldGray conkys
Text too small

11. The two herrmos conky's
OK as is

12. MXKoO/Full
Text too small

13.LSD
OK as is

14. MUI
OK as is

15. MNM
Text too small

16. Mowgli
OK as is.

17. Simplice
OK as is.

18. Smooth Information
OK as is

19. All the tejees
Text too small except CPU percent OK

20. All the torns
OK except for those that have system information with small text.

21. The three transparent tiles
Text too small

22. Tron Legacy disk
Text too small

23. Tron legacy Time.
Time OK, other text too small

24. MX-Core Blue
a. Time and clock block is OK
b. All otther text too small
c. Bottom blocks are off screen[/code]

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:41 pm**

It seems clear to me already it would not be prudent to have Gotham as our default conky. Our second choice was Elementary, but it lacks any system info. So I opened the script for MX-MNM and copied the code for that nice little line, pasting it in underneath the Elementary script and making a couple of adjustments such as locating it top_middle, removing the seconds, etc. This gives us another candidate that is less artistic in a graphic sense, but perhaps more stable once we finish making tweaks that render it more robust against user changes. See what you think.

Elementary_sys.png

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#This Conky was Made by Xaahu
#http://xaahudude.deviantart.com/
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Liberation Sans:size=9
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
#own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 500 500
maximum_width 500
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no

default_shade_color 000000
default_outline_color 828282
alignment top_middle
gap_x 20
gap_y 20
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no

lua_load /home/didisoft/.conky/lua.lua

# ${diskiograph /dev/sda 15,180 a7a7a7 a7a7a7} # wskaznik pracy dysku
# ${image /home/didisoft/.conky/didisoft.jpg -p 0,80 -s 26x28} # obrazki w conky

default_color edf1f6
color1 a8812d
color2 ffffff

TEXT
#time
${offset 80}${color1}${font Quicksand Light - U:pixelsize=70}${time %l %M}${font}${voffset -20}${offset 10}${font Existence Light - U:pixelsize=20}${time %p}${font}

#date
${color2}${voffset 10}${offset 120}${font Existence Light - U:pixelsize=20}${time %A %B %d}${font}
${voffset -26}${offset 40}${font Existence Light - U:pixelsize=32}${time %Y}${font}

#sys
${offset 40}${color1}CPU ${offset 9}${color}${cpu cpu0}%${offset 9}${cpu cpu1}%${offset 9}${color1}HD ${color}root${offset 9}$color${fs_used_perc /}%${offset 9} home ${fs_used_perc /home}%${offset 9}${color1}RAM ${offset 9}${color}${memperc}%${offset 9}${offset 9}

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:58 pm**

That would work. But again on hdpi system info font is too small. Changing the font from 9 to 12 point for hdpi makes it acceptable for both, I thnk.

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xftfont Liberation Sans:size=9

To
xftfont Liberation Sans:size=12

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:59 pm**

That looks good, the only thing that is important for me is not to cover the installer icon, if it does (even in only a few cases) it shouldn't be on by default.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:08 pm**

The revised Elementary looks very nice

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:22 pm**

richb wrote:That would work. But again on hdpi system info font is too small. Changing the font from 9 to 12 point for hdpi makes it acceptable for both, I thnk.
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xftfont Liberation Sans:size=9

To
xftfont Liberation Sans:size=12

Thanks. Color and font are secondary to basic design and included elements at this point. Once people say to go with it for B2, then I think we can *harden* it by changing the tags (or whatever they are called), look at adjusting the font, and then do some fun color changes to pick up the wallpaper.

BTW: I suggest it be named Elementary_sys and placed in the same folder as Elementary.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:42 pm**

Good approach. I wanted to see what it looked on the hdpi screen and get a sense that it would work for smaller screens to meet a goal of it working for most users. I an assuming it will but cannot test on a small screen.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:54 pm**

It looks fine on my testing machine, and I think I have figured out how to harden it to the change problems we have been seeing.

But let's see first what others think.

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:37 pm**

The MX conky general overview list is complete. In most cases I think those that are an issue for hdpi screens can be generalized for smaller screens. Others will be a challenge due to their code, MX Core Blue comes to mind.
A general comment I can make is on a 1920x1280 screen a minimum font size of 12 presents a comfortable size for conkys.

viewtopic.php?p=425661#p425661

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:35 pm**

Thanks very much for this, it will be a great help. I hope a few others follow your example!

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:47 pm**

Borrowing the previous list and commenting out (>) previous comments. Placed in Code tags for brevity.

I liked all the conky themes and the easy Alt/Right-click functionality when browsing with Conky Manager! I am viewing on a 1680x1050 monitor so have classified them as being small/medium/large in overall appearance and again for text, in proportion to the desktop generally.

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1. MX Gotham
Nice overall Conky size but time a bit smaller/info a bit larger would balance better here

2. MX-Asq.clock
Nicely proportioned medium size and text

3. MX-geekytower logo
>Text too small except for Time which is OK
Agrees, time proportions ideal, although a largish conky overall.

4. MX-comuterlove
>Text too small
Same. No red double strip at bottom showing per preview window….

5.MX-Coreblue
>1. Text too small except for clock block
Borderline for me but agree, a large conky theme consuming majority of screen height.
>2. Bottom panels do not show.
I see nothing below syslog at bottom except a thumbwidth of blank space

6. MX-Cowan_less
>OK as is.
A nice medium easy read clock and text

7. MX Cowan_more
>Too big, not necessary for hdpi
Agree, large panel large fonts

8. MX_Elementary
>OK as is
Agree, nice medium theme overall, modern and simple

9. MX-emays
>System info text could be larger and move down away from time block
Agree, a medium Conky with time/date nicely proportioned, info overlapped and small

10. The 5 GoldGray conkys
One I have used prior to Verti-color (have added this one myself), were defaulting below my bottom horizontal panel and ungraspable except for net, although cpu appeared upper left of screen. 

11. The two Herrmos conky's
>OK as is
Agree, a nice medium, modern conky

12. MXKoO/Full
>Text too small
Agree, a brightly colored, busy, large (also wide) Conky, small text although font face does compensate somewhat

13.LSD
>OK as is
A nice medium Conky, although unable to move here

14. MUI
>OK as is
Agreed, modern compact retro mechanical flipping louvre clock.

15. MNM
>Text too small
Same (small and small Conky)

16. Mowgli
>?OK as is.
Same

17. Simplice
>OK as is.
The narrow, thin red font was a little hard to read,possibly bolder or a smidgen wider?

18. Smooth Information
>OK as is
Yes, an excellent medium and clear Conky

19. All the tejees
>Text too small except CPU percent OK
Agreed

20. All the TornPaper themes
>OK except for those that have system information with small text.
Just manageable for me

21. The three transparent tiles
>Text too small
I thought the time version was pretty close, medium small, up another point size or two in proportion might be better.

22. Tron Legacy disk
>Text too small
Same here
 
23. Tron legacy Time.
>Time OK, other text too small
Same, a small conky overall, up a couple of font size points again perhaps?

24. MX-Core Blue
>a. Time and clock block is OK
>b. All otther text too small
>c. Bottom blocks are off screen
Agree

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:06 pm**

Thanks for checking. Gives another reference point on a different res screen. Code tags are a good idea.

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:03 am**

It's unreadable on my laptop.
snapshot:
https://mega.nz/#!wioxmbyQ!IPuKkX4G5c3l ... dl7GMuuZ0k
==============================

System: Host: mxfuji Kernel: 4.9.0-4-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-17.b1_x64 Horizon November 6, 2017
Machine: Device: laptop System: FUJITSU product: LifeBook T4220 serial: N/A
Mobo: FUJITSU model: FJNB1D4 serial: N/A
BIOS: FUJITSU // Phoenix v: Version 1.18 date: 02/23/2009
Battery CMB1: charge: 31.4 Wh 97.2% condition: 32.3/56.2 Wh (58%)
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo T8300 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
clock speeds: max: 2401 MHz 1: 1600 MHz 2: 2000 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1024x768@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio: Card Intel 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.0-4-amd64
Network: Card-1: Marvell 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:17:42:c1:c5:19
Card-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection driver: iwl4965
IF: wlp12s0 state: down mac: f6:77:44:e0:7c:be
Drives: HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (10.7% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: FUJITSU_MHY2120B size: 120.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 106G used: 8.2G (9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0C mobo: 26.8C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 196 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 943.0/1995.2MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.40

Posted: **Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:45 am**

I'm having trouble stabilizing my Elementary_sys against changes in day or month length. For that reason, I have begun working with asq_clock, which is quite robust against those changes. Made a bunch of changes: 1) used awk to just show the OS and code name, leaving off the installation date (web search); 2) introduced a few extra extra color codes so time and items in bottom line could be differentiated; 3) added HDD.

It's not perfect yet, but please test a bit and/or see what you think. EDIT: added separate color codes for each element

MX-Asq_clock.png

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##############################################
# Settings
##############################################
background no
use_xft yes
#xftfont Infini Sans:size=9
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 100 250
maximum_width 5000
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
#default_shade_color 000000
#default_outline_color 828282
alignment top_middle
gap_x 0
gap_y 10
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no

############Colors#########
default_color 1e1717
color0 1e1717
color1 6d5c5c
color2 ac2e65
color3 ab822e
color4 1e1717
###########################

##############################################
#  Output
##############################################

own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_colour 000000

TEXT
${voffset 10}${font Infini:pixelsize=90}${color0}${time %l:%M}${color}${font}${color1}${voffset -84}${offset 40}${font Infini:pixelsize=42}${time %d} ${voffset -15}${font Infini:pixelsize=22}${time  %b}  '${time %y}${font}${voffset 24}${font Infini:pixelsize=58}${offset -140}${time %a}${font}

${font Infini:pixelsize=17}${color2}${offset 30}${execi 1000 awk '{print $1,$2}' /etc/antix-version}
#bottom system line
${offset 30}${color3}${font Infini:pixelsize=22}MEM ${voffset 12}${color4}${font Infini:pixelsize=21}$memperc%${voffset -11}${offset 15}    ${font Infini:pixelsize=20}${color3}HDD ${voffset 12}${color4}${font Infini:pixelsize=19}${fs_used_perc /}%${voffset -11}${offset 20}${font Infini:pixelsize=20}${color3}CPU ${voffset 12}${color4}${font Infini:pixelsize=19}${cpu cpu0}%${voffset -11}/code]

Posted: **Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:00 am**

Nice job, looks good. And very readable on a large monitor. A point of personal preference,; the font used make a zero look like an "oh". Looks strange to me. But as I said just a preference.
I also have noticed some of the code in the conkys is well written and fairly easy to modify. Others are spaghetti coded, and one change screws everything up.

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:11 am**

I have noticed you can have different conkies running at the same time on different desktops. For example with MX conky started on desktop 2, you can choose a different conky for it. A bit counter intuitive but you would choose for it to run on desktop 1. MX Conky considers desktop 1 the one you are in. Pretty cool.

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:18 am**

Works for a single session, but don't think it will survive a suspend, logout or reboot.

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:28 am**

Sorry I haven't been giving much input in recent days.

I'm just back from my holidays only to find I have electrical problems which are causing the circuit breaker to trip. Luckily it's limited to just a small area of the house, but that area includes my desktop computer, wifi router, NAS and printer.

Won't have much time this weekend to play around with the beta 1 or the conkies, although I'm pretty chuffed that the Asq-Clock conky seems to be a happy compromise for various sized screens and even hidpi displays.

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:32 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:Works for a single session, but don't think it will survive a suspend, logout or reboot.

It survived a logout on my machine.

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:38 am**

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 12:25 pm**

I have sent up a new data pack, and hope I got all the changes. It will not be moved to .conky automatically, since the folder is already populated, so people willing to test the new default will need to empty that folder and launch MX Conky.

Posted: **Sun Nov 12, 2017 9:33 am**

Here is a modified MX-KoO if any one wants to try it. The logo at the top is the standard MX logo and you would need to point to it on your system. The first line under CPU needs to be edited for your system. The network information needs to be modified with your network nomenclature. Under Disks I have added my Data partition. You can edit it if you have one or delete it.
I have retained lines from the original in most cases but commented them out with # before the line. The code may still have extraneous items that are not needed, but renders correctly.

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background no
use_xft yes
font Terminus:size=11
xftalpha 0.5
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
#default_bar_size 0 6
 
maximum_width 350
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color 58BDED
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green
alignment top_left
gap_x 5
#gap_y 240
gap_y 5
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer no
 
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_colour 000000
minimum_size 0 0

color0 82D2FF
color1 EC0100
color2 E9E101
color3 18FF00
color4 66aaff
color5 ffffff

TEXT

${image /home/richb/Pictures/logo.png -p 80,-0 -s 200x55}
#${alignc -0}${font Open Sans:size=15}${color0}MX Linux$font$color
${voffset 4}$color${font}${font Open Sans:size=10}$alignr${voffset -15}$font
${voffset -4}${color5}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=12}DATE
$color${font Open Sans:size=12}$alignc${time %A}, ${time %d  %b  %Y   %l:%M %P} 

# SYS
${voffset -8}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=12}${color5}SYSTEM$color${font}
Kernel$alignr$sysname $kernel 
OS $alignr${exec cat 30 /etc/antix-version}
Uptime $alignr $uptime

# MEMORY
${offset 1}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=12}${color5}MEMORY
${color2}${membar 4} 
$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=12}Ram Used:$alignr$font $mem of $memmax
$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=12}Ram Free:$alignr$font $memeasyfree
$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=12}Buffers/Cached:$alignr$font$buffers / $cached
$color${font Open Sans:Bold:size=12}${color}${voffset -2}RAM Percent Used:${alignr}$color$memperc %

#${voffset -5}------------------------------------------------- ${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color0}${voffset -2}RA#${color}${font}${voffset -1} ---- ${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color5}${voffset -2}CPU${color}${font}${voffset -1} -
#${top_mem name 1}${alignr}${top_mem cpu 1} %
#${voffset -13}${alignr}${offset -60}${top_mem mem 1} %
#${top_mem name 2}${alignr}${top_mem cpu 2} %
#${voffset -13}${alignr}${offset -60}${top_mem mem 2} %
#${top_mem name 3}${alignr}${top_mem cpu 3} %
#${voffset -13}${alignr}${offset -60}${top_mem mem 3} %
#${top_mem name 4}${alignr}${top_mem cpu 4} %
#${voffset -13}${alignr}${offset -60}${top_mem mem 4} %
# CPU
${voffset -8}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=12}${color5}CPU
$color${font}AMD Kaveri Processor   $alignr $cpu%  
${font}Core 0  ${color3}${execi 4 sensors | grep 'Core 0' | cut -c18-24} ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu0}${color}
${font}Core 1  ${color3}${execi 4 sensors | grep 'Core 1' | cut -c18-24} ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu1}${color}
${font}Core 2  ${color3}${execi 4 sensors | grep 'Core 2' | cut -c18-24} ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu2}${color}
${font}Core 3  ${color3}${execi 4 sensors | grep 'Core 3' | cut -c18-24} ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu3}${color}

${color5}Process${alignr}% CPU 
${color}${top name 1}${alignr}${top cpu 1} %
#${voffset -13}${alignr}${offset -60}${top mem 1} %
${top name 2}${alignr}${top cpu 2} %
#${voffset -13}${alignr}${offset -60}${top mem 2} %
${top name 3}${alignr}${top cpu 3} %
#${voffset -13}${alignr}${offset -60}${top mem 3} %
${top name 4}${alignr}${top cpu 4} %
#${voffset -13}${alignr}${offset -60}${top mem 4} %
# ${top name 5}${alignr}${top cpu 5} %
#${voffset -13}${alignr}${offset -60}${top mem 5} %

# NETWORK
${voffset -8}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=12}${color5}NETWORK$color
#$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=8.5}External IP ${font}${alignr}${execi 60 curl http://google.com --connect-timeout 2 | grep -o "[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*"}$font
#${voffset -14}$alignc${execpi 4 echo "\${font}\${color}ping: \${font Open Sans:bold:size=8.5}\${color6}$(ping -W 1 -c 1 8.8.8.8 -q | grep rtt | egrep [0-9]+\.[0-9]+ -o | head -n 2 | tail -n 1)\${font}\${color} ms"}
#${voffset -10}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8.5}Ethernet $font$alignr ${addr enp6s0}
#↑ ${upspeedf enp6s0} kb/s $alignr ${totalup enp6s0}
#${voffset -14}$alignc${upspeedgraph enp6s0 10,120  ff0000 0000ff}
#↓ ${downspeedf enp6s0} kb/s $alignr ${totaldown enp6s0}
#${voffset -14}$alignc${downspeedgraph enp6s0 10,120  ff0000 0000ff}

${voffset -20}${font Open Sans:bold:size=10}WiFi  $font${wireless_bitrate enp6s0} $alignr ${addr wlp2s0}
#${voffset -2}$alignc${wireless_essid enp6s0}
${color2}${wireless_link_bar 4,400 wlp2s0}${color E9E9E9} 
${color}↑ ${upspeedf enp6s0} kb/s $alignr ${totalup enp6s0}
${voffset -15}$alignc${upspeedgraph enp6s0 20,160 ff0000 00FF00}
↓ ${downspeedf enp6s0} kb/s $alignr ${totaldown enp6s0}
${voffset -15}$alignc${downspeedgraph enp6s0 20,160 ff0000 00FF00}

# HDD
${voffset -8}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=12}${color5}DISKS
$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=12}ROOT     ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /}$alignr ${fs_used_perc /} %
#${color aaddff}write: ${diskio_write /dev/sdc}${color6}${alignc -20} read:${diskio_read /dev/sdc}
${color2}${fs_bar /}${color2}

#the script in the following line does not seem to function
#${exec 10 ~/semplice-conky-harddisks.sh}
#${voffset -20}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color0}Disk Mounts ${color1}${hr 3}$color$font
${voffset -20}${color}${font Open Sans:bold:size=12}HOME     ${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /home} % 
${color2}${fs_bar /home}
${voffset 10}${color}${font Open Sans:bold:size=12}DATA      ${fs_used /media/data_SSD/} / ${fs_size /media/data_SSD/} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /media/data_SSD} % 
${color2}${fs_bar /media/data_SSD/}

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:43 am**

We are going to add the nice antiX-17 conky to the default collection--I have received permission and guidance from anti (thanks!). Not sure about some of the particulars but we can figure it out.

Not only is it excellent by itself, but its codes offer nice possibilities for revising our default collection in the future by ANYONE EXCEPT ME.

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2017 5:26 pm**

Everything is always ten times more involved than you think when you first start...

Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall
And did it my way

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:20 am**

<Now starting with the B2 collection.>

I seem to have put the wrong version of the new antiX conky in, since wifi at least looks all screwed up. Here is the script that works on my testing machine with B2 (adjust the interface names if necessary), if you want to replace the contents of ~/.conky/MX-antiX/MX-antiX17

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# Standard antiX .conkyrc file written by Team antiX.
# Feel free to use. 
# anticapitalista@riseup.net

# Note: delete the line above to disable automatic scaling with DPI
# on the live system.

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

short_units yes

cpu_avg_samples 1
net_avg_samples 1

out_to_console no

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 7x12
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
 font 8x12
#font 7x12
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
#font -artwiz-snap-normal-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
#xftfont gentium:size=12
#ftfont DejaVu Sans:size=10
xftfont DejaVu Sans:bold:size=9
#xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=9

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus, pcmanfm and rox desktops)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1.0

#on_bottom no

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 5 5
maximum_width 180

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
#border_margin 10

# border width
border_width 2

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white

color2 ffffff
color3 ffffff
color4 yellow
color8 77ccff
color9 5599cc

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
# alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text

gap_x 10
gap_y 20

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer right

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# if_up_strictness link:  up | link | address
if_up_strictness address

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti

## antiX additives examples. Add below Text##
##Battery examples##
##${color}battery: ${color}$acpiacadapter, ${battery_percent BAT1}% 
##${color}battery:${color} ${battery}
#${color}ACPI Battery: ${color}$battery
#${battery_bar 11,0}
##Wireless example##
#${color}Wireless:
#${color}essid: ${wireless_essid wlan0}
#${color}IP:${color} ${addr wlan0}
#${color}speed: ${color} ${wireless_bitrate wlan0}
#${color}link strength: ${color} ${wireless_link_bar 7,50 wlan0}

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color3}${alignc}MX Linux
${color8}$alignc${font DejaVu Sans:size=12}${time %I:%M}   $font
${color}${alignc}${time %a %d %b}
${color}${alignc}Uptime: $uptime
${color}${alignc}${exec disp=${DISPLAY#:}; disp=${disp%.[0-9]}; cat $HOME/.desktop-session/desktop-code.$disp 2>/dev/null}
${color}res:${alignr}${color3}${execi 60 xdpyinfo | sed -n -r "s/^\s*dimensions:.*\s([0-9]+x[0-9]+).*/\1/p"}
${color}dpi:${alignr}${color3}${execi 60 sed -nr "s/^\s*Xft.dpi:\s*([0-9]+(x[0-9]+)?).*/\1/p" $HOME/.Xresources | grep "[0-9]" || echo 96}
${color}cpu use:${alignr}${color3}${cpu}${color}%
${color}cpu freq:${color3}${alignr}${freq}
${color}$alignr${cpugraph cpu0 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}disk:${alignr}${color3}${diskio}
${color}${alignr}${diskiograph 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}${if_up eth0}
${color}eth0 up: $alignr${color3} ${upspeed eth0}
${color}$alignr${upspeedgraph   eth0 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}eth0 down: $alignr${color3} ${downspeed eth0}
${color2}$alignr${downspeedgraph eth0 30,170  5599cc 5599cc}${endif}${if_up eth1}
${color}eth1 up: $alignr${color3} ${upspeed eth1}
${color}$alignr${upspeedgraph   eth1 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}eth1 down: $alignr${color3} ${downspeed eth1}
${color2}$alignr${downspeedgraph eth1 30,170  5599cc 5599cc}${endif}${if_up wlan0}
${color}wlan0 up: $alignr${color3} ${upspeed wlan0}
${color2}$alignr${upspeedgraph   wlan0 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}wlan0 down: $alignr${color3} ${downspeed wlan0}
${color2}$alignr${downspeedgraph wlan0 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}${endif}${if_up wlan1}
${color}wlan1 up: $alignr${color3} ${upspeed wlan1}
${color2}$alignr${upspeedgraph   wlan1 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}wlan1 down: $alignr${color3} ${downspeed wlan1}
${color2}$alignr${downspeedgraph wlan1 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}${endif}
${color}${alignr}${color8}Used / Total
${color}mem:${alignr}$mem ${color3} /${color} $memmax
${color}swap:${alignr}$swap ${color3} /${color} $swapmax
${color}root:${alignr}${fs_used /} ${color3} /${color} ${fs_size /}
${color3}${alignc}${execi 1000 persist-enabled}
${execi 1000 acpi 2>/dev/null | grep -q . && echo "Batt: "}${execi 10 acpi -b 2>/dev/null | cut -d" " -f3,4 | sed 's/,$//'}

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:08 am**

I'm not going to read the 7 pages, so if it has been mentioned, apologies.

If user boots F2 language other than English, I tested Greek, Russian, Hungarian, Italian then the default conky looks awful gobbledygook.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:27 am**

The B2 default?

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:33 am**

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:53 am**

What do you mean by gobbledygook? I'm testing B2 32bit live and default Conky seems normal from my point of view.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:53 am**

OK, will check, thanks.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:33 am**

conky_Greek.png

Here is a screenshot - default conky, Greek chosen at F2.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:38 am**

I'm guessing the font that the conky uses does not have the proper characters built in. most of the conky themes have a font included that gets dumped into ~/.fonts.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:48 am**

The fonts for that conky, as for the others, is included in the conky's own folder. I will look into changing that to see if it makes a difference. It's also possible I suppose that that font is too specialized, so will also look at using something more general.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:51 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:The fonts for that conky, as for the others, is included in the conky's own folder. I will look into changing that to see if it makes a difference. It's also possible I suppose that that font is too specialized, so will also look at using something more general.

I think if the fonts are removed, it defaults to the system font.

just be aware that during testing, the conky manager dumps any font specified by the particular theme into ~./fonts .

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:52 am**

new 17b2 screenshot conky set to minimal, nice n neat.

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##############################################
# Settings
##############################################
background no
use_xft yes
#xftfont Infini Sans:size=8
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 100 200
maximum_width 300
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
#default_shade_color 000000
#default_outline_color 828282
alignment top_right
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no

############Colors#########
default_color 000000
color0 00fffb
color1 ffa700
color2 ff00f6
color3 00ff20
color4 fff600
###########################

##############################################
# Output
##############################################

own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_colour 000000

TEXT
${font Infini:pixelsize=60}${color0}${time %l:%M}${color}${font}${color1}${voffset -40}${offset 10}${font Infini:pixelsize=20}${time %d} ${font Infini:pixelsize=20}${time %b} '${time %y}${font}${voffset 10}${font Infini:pixelsize=40}${offset -80}${time %a}${font}
${font Infini:pixelsize=18}${color2}${offset 20}${execi 1000 awk '{print $1,$2}' /etc/antix-version}
#bottom system line
${offset 20}${voffset -10}${color3}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}CPU ${voffset 10}${color4}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}${cpu cpu0}% ${voffset -10}${color3}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}MEM ${voffset 10}${color4}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}$memperc% ${voffset -10}${color3}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}${color3}HDD ${voffset 10}${color4}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}${fs_used_perc /}%

switch bottom two lines;

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##############################################
# Settings
##############################################
background no
use_xft yes
#xftfont Infini Sans:size=8
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_argb_visual no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 100 200
maximum_width 250
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
#default_shade_color 000000
#default_outline_color 828282
alignment top_right
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no

############Colors#########
default_color 000000
color0 00fffb
color1 ffa700
color2 ff00f6
color3 00ff20
color4 fff600
###########################

##############################################
# Output
##############################################

own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_colour 000000

TEXT
${color0}${font Infini:pixelsize=60}${time %l:%M}${voffset -35}${color}${font} ${color1}${font Infini:pixelsize=20}${time %d} ${font Infini:pixelsize=20}${time %b} '${time %y}${offset -80}${voffset 20}${font Infini:pixelsize=40}${time %a}${color}${font}
${color3}${offset 20}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}CPU ${voffset 10}${color4}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}${cpu cpu0}% ${voffset -10}${color3}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}MEM ${voffset 10}${color4}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}$memperc% ${voffset -10}${color3}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}${color3}HDD ${voffset 10}${color4}${font Infini:pixelsize=16}${fs_used_perc /}%${color}${font}
${font Infini:pixelsize=18}${color2}${offset 20}${execi 1000 awk '{print $1,$2}' /etc/antix-version}${color}${font}

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:55 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:The fonts for that conky, as for the others, is included in the conky's own folder. I will look into changing that to see if it makes a difference. It's also possible I suppose that that font is too specialized, so will also look at using something more general.

infini fonts used by default is a french font From Centre National des arts plastiques. From what I read, greek is not supported

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:58 am**

Bingo, thanks. I love the font, but will look replacing it (sorry, asqwerth!) if we keep this as the default conky.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:07 am**

No worries - I forgot all about characters for other languages!

As long as the version with infini font remains in the collection for those of us whose languages can be displayed by said font, it's not really a problem.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:11 am**

And an other thing : in the conky conf file, override_utf8_locale must be put to yes for a full display (italian is supported but does not display correctly without this option)

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:20 am**

Great, I wondered what that was for.

I am going to create a "default" version of the conky so we don't lose that gorgeous font completely from the set.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:48 am**

@anti: if you replace

Infini

with

Roboto-Regular

Does it render the Greek? This is just a proof-of-concept question. It's hard to tell without going through a lot of fonts, for which I don't have time right now.

Another candidate might be wqy-microhei, which supposedly also handles Chinese and Japanese.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:36 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:@anti: if you replace

Infini

with

Roboto-Regular

Does it render the Greek? This is just a proof-of-concept question. It's hard to tell without going through a lot of fonts, for which I don't have time right now.

Another candidate might be wqy-microhei, which supposedly also handles Chinese and Japanese.

Replacing Infini with Roboto-Regular AND override_utf8_locale yes renders Greek correctly.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:44 am**

Good, that's a start--thanks. Not a very handsome font...but now I can move forward.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 12:32 pm**

Regarding GeekyTowerLogo, I overlooked the fact that the cpu readings and bar graph should refer to cpu0 (ie, the total usage for all CPU cores), rather than to cpu1, which would only display usage for the 1st core.

So the text in line 115 should be:

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${color3}CPU: ${color}${cpu cpu0}% ${alignr}${color}${cpubar cpu0 8,60}

ADDED: and on another note, after installation of beta2, the MX logo no longer shows up in this conky (it did when I tested the conky in live mode) when you use:

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./MXLogoStart.png

as the file path.

Note that I used the $HOME/.conky/MX-Asq/etc etc way of describing the path for the harddrive.sh script and it continues to work.

Would suggest the same for the logo pic, so line 108 should be:

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 ${image $HOME/.conky/MX-Asq/MX-GeekyTowerLogo/MXLogoStart.png -p 97,90 -s 50x50}

and yep, that works. I really don't like the "./" shortcut.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 12:46 pm**

Thanks

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:24 pm**

We have four Infini fonts in the Asq conky, but the otf Infini Regular here: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/infini
seems to have full glyph support. Perhaps if we try that font?

Whoops, never mind, it's the same exact font. I wonder if we can find a similar decorative font with full Unicode support.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:34 pm**

Maybe, hard to tell, thanks.

ATM I am looking at the Roboto font family (fav: Roboto-Light), which covers Latin alphabets as well as Greek and Russian.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:38 pm**

You can look at samples of what this site thinks are similar fonts here: https://www.stockio.com/free-font/infini

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 2:46 pm**

I thought yesterday her were gonna make it thus look like

mxConky3.jpg

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# Standard MX .conkyrc file
background yes

short_units yes

cpu_avg_samples 1
net_avg_samples 1

out_to_console no

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
#xftfont gentium:size=12
#ftfont DejaVu Sans:size=10
xftfont DejaVu Sans:bold:size=9

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1.0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus, pcmanfm and rox desktops)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar
own_window_argb_visual yes

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 5 5
maximum_width 180

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
#border_margin 10

# border width
border_width 2

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white

color2 ffffff
color3 ffffff
color4 yellow
color8 77ccff
color9 5599cc

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
# alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text

gap_x 30
gap_y 30 

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer right

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# if_up_strictness link:  up | link | address
if_up_strictness address

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti


TEXT

${image $HOME/Logos/MX-logo.png -p 20,10 -s 30x23}${color}${alignc}${font DejaVu Sans:size=12}MX Linux
${hr}${font}
${color}res:${alignc}${execi 60 xdpyinfo | sed -n -r "s/^\s*dimensions:.*\s([0-9]+x[0-9]+).*/\1/p"}
${color8}${font DejaVu Sans:size=9}${kernel}${font}
${color8}Boot: ${pre_exec who -b | cut -c23-}
${color}Uptime: ${uptime}
${hr}
#${color}${alignc}${exec disp=${DISPLAY#:}; disp=${disp%.[0-9]}; cat $HOME/.desktop-session/desktop-code.$disp 2>/dev/null}
#${color}dpi:${alignr}${color3}${execi 60 sed -nr "s/^\s*Xft.dpi:\s*([0-9]+(x[0-9]+)?).*/\1/p" $HOME/.Xresources | grep "[0-9]" || echo 96}
#${color}Automount: ${alignr}${color3}${execi 60 grep -q "^automount=TRUE" $HOME/.desktop-session/automount.conf 2>/dev/null && echo "enabled" || echo "disabled"}
${color}CPU:${alignr}${color3}${cpu}${color}%
#${color}Freq:${color3}${alignr}${freq}
${color}$alignr${cpugraph cpu0 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}Disk:${alignr}${color3}${diskio}
${color}${alignr}${diskiograph 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}${if_up eth0}
${color}eth0 up: $alignr${color3} ${upspeed eth0}
${color}$alignr${upspeedgraph   eth0 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}eth0 down: $alignr${color3} ${downspeed eth0}
${color2}$alignr${downspeedgraph eth0 30,170  5599cc 5599cc}${endif}${if_up eth1}
${color}eth1 up: $alignr${color3} ${upspeed eth1}
${color}$alignr${upspeedgraph   eth1 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}eth1 down: $alignr${color3} ${downspeed eth1}
${color2}$alignr${downspeedgraph eth1 30,170  5599cc 5599cc}${endif}${if_up wlan0}
${color}wlan0 up: $alignr${color3} ${upspeed wlan0}
${color2}$alignr${upspeedgraph   wlan0 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}wlan0 down: $alignr${color3} ${downspeed wlan0}
${color2}$alignr${downspeedgraph wlan0 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}${endif}${if_up wlan1}
${color}wlan1 up: $alignr${color3} ${upspeed wlan1}
${color2}$alignr${upspeedgraph   wlan1 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}
${color}wlan1 down: $alignr${color3} ${downspeed wlan1}
${color2}$alignr${downspeedgraph wlan1 30,170 5599cc 5599cc}${endif}
${color}${alignr}${color8}Used / Total
${color}RAM:${alignr}$mem ${color8} /${color} $memmax
#${color}Swap:${alignr}$swap ${color8} /${color} $swapmax
${color}DATA:${alignr}${fs_used /media/DATEN/} ${color8} /${color} ${fs_size /media/DATEN/}
${color}root:${alignr}${fs_used /} ${color8} /${color} ${fs_size /}
#${color3}${alignc}${execi 1000 persist-enabled}
#${execi 1000 acpi 2>/dev/null | grep -q . && echo "Batt: "}${execi 10 acpi -b 2>/dev/null | cut -d" " -f3,4 | sed 's/,$//'}

MX-logo.png

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 2:56 pm**

Not by default b/c not really appropriate for much of the MX audience, but you can select it for yourself. See the corrected script I posted earlier in this thread.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 2:59 pm**

I've been working on a default conky that would resist as many changes as possible, including the ones that anti brought up earlier. Here is a possibility that only has one word to translate: the day of the week. I use the Roboto-Light font that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets (maybe more) and have tried to leave room for long weekday names.

What do you think of this direction? Never mind colors...

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:02 pm**

Maybe Fira Sans from Google Fonts supports all the other locales out of the box. You'd think they would make sure of that.

But Roboto looks good, too. It's great that everything else is so good that we only have to nitpick fine details like this.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:31 pm**

In Beta2, the Conky can't dispaly the exact Chinese fonts:

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:47 pm**

Thank you. Can you please try opening the script (launch Conky Manager, highlight the active conky, click on the pencil icon) and do this:

1) use Search > Replace to change all "Infini" to "wqy-microhei"
2) change the line "override_utf8_locale no" to "override_utf8_locale yes"

Save and let us know if that works. Thanks.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:41 am**

I know Conky is powerful but it's hard to read in Chinese environment. Can he did as another software 'variety ' did to show some quotes on the screen?

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:23 am**

Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. Can you please explain a little more?

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:29 am**

He means that in the wallpaper-changer program called "variety", there is an option to post quotes on the desktop, and it would appear that Chinese characters do show up. But that is probably because the member has already installed the necessary fonts and the locale/language is set for China or Taiwan.

The issue with this conky is that it is set to display a very specific font, infini, and infini does not have the characters for Chinese/Korean/Japanese.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:33 am**

Yes that's why he should have tried what Jerry told him just before

Posted: **Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:37 am**

asqwerth wrote:He means that in the wallpaper-changer program called "variety", there is an option to post quotes on the desktop, and it would appear that Chinese characters do show up. But that is probably because the member has already installed the necessary fonts and the locale/language is set for China or Taiwan.

The issue with this conky is that it is set to display a very specific font, infini, and infini does not have the characters for Chinese/Korean/Japanese.

Thank you for your explain.

Posted: **Thu Nov 23, 2017 1:43 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:Thank you. Can you please try opening the script (launch Conky Manager, highlight the active conky, click on the pencil icon) and do this:

1) use Search > Replace to change all "Infini" to "wqy-microhei"
2) change the line "override_utf8_locale no" to "override_utf8_locale yes"

Save and let us know if that works. Thanks.

Yes, it works now. I think the team had better choose the font support unicode to prevent TOFU show up. (ex: Google's Notosans CJK fonts) Or let user choose font they want through GUI configuration.

Posted: **Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:46 pm**

From skidoo:

consider jogging the default x/y offset for the "torn red paper" conky (as is, it partially obscures the MX logo of the default wallpaper)

noticed: at the foot of one of the tall conkies, a line displays ${some_var} an unknown/unreplaced placeholder

noticed: paperclip icon in panel lacks an onhover hint text

Posted: **Sat Nov 25, 2017 8:00 am**

Back to the single desktop question,there may be a way:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... sapce?rq=1

Not sure how that would work for us, but we can look into it sometime.

Posted: **Sun Nov 26, 2017 5:55 am**

The command line tool wmctrl is used to display different Conky configurations from system startup on several workspaces.

e. g. an entry in the autostart directory looks like this

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sleep 25 && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -q -c /home/male/2016_S11.conkyrc &
#sleep 30 && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -q -c /home/male/1_accuweather/.conkyrc_1_weatherfont_simpler9 &
sleep 30 && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -q -c /home/male/S11/TEST/greyConkyrc &
sleep 40 && wmctrl -s 3 && conky -q -c /media/DATEN/francescoPC/Conky/derivantArt/ututo/s11Version/conkyrc &

Here is an example under kde-plasma on three work surfaces and 10 conkys.

wmctrl.jpg

wmctrl1.jpg

wmctrl2.jpg

wmctrl3.jpg

The counting method is similar to GRUB:
Work surface 1 = wmctrl 0
...
Work surface 4 = wmctrl 3

The sleep times depend on the desktop. KDE plasma is considerably slower than fluxbox.

Sticky Conkys may only be registered on work surface 1

I doubt, however, that such a project should be integrated into the delivery of a distribution. :lipsrsealed:

Posted: **Sun Nov 26, 2017 7:50 am**

Thanks, but you're right: that ain't gonna happen!

Posted: **Sun Nov 26, 2017 7:56 am**

I am not sure what the problem is, but I do get different conkies on different workspaces by using MX Conky and checking Desktop 1 when in the alternate workspace with anew conky. Apparently MX Conky recognizes desktop 1 as the workspace that is showing. Or are you referring to a different problem?

Posted: **Sun Nov 26, 2017 8:17 am**

Apparently MX Conky recognizes desktop 1 as the workspace that is showing

Not MX Conky, but conky itself does that. Until logout/login--at least in all the testing I have done.

Just had a thought: do you have the "Save session for future logins" checked? That would probably do it.

Posted: **Sun Nov 26, 2017 8:19 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:
Apparently MX Conky recognizes desktop 1 as the workspace that is showing
Not MX Conky, but conky itself does that. Until logout/login--at least in all the testing I have done.

Just had a thought: do you have the "Save session for future logins" checked? That would probably do it.

Ni it is unchecked.

Posted: **Sun Nov 26, 2017 8:24 am**

OK, then can you please use Session and Startup, Session tab, and clear all saved sessions. Then log out and back in.

Posted: **Sun Nov 26, 2017 8:53 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:OK, then can you please use Session and Startup, Session tab, and clear all saved sessions. Then log out and back in.

Upon login it put both conkies on the same desktop. I was able to move one to another desktop. Is that the problem, not sticking staying on the desktop chosen in a session?

EDIT: Sorry for the confusion. checking Automatically save session on startup keeps the conkies on the last sessions workspaces.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:22 pm**

b3 conkies.

Really need an hdpi version for the second line.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:26 pm**

b3 default conky shows Greek letters correctly now.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:44 pm**

And Chinese, it looks like--yeah!

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:46 pm**

@Rich: can you do that, since you have the equipment? For all 4 conkies in the Default folder.

In the long run, we have a solution in the pipeline that will take care of this.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:47 pm**

I see residual problems that need to be ironed out for RC, but this is much better than B2.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:50 pm**

@ Stevo and/or DO: why do the GoldGrey conkies show up? They are not in the GitHub repo.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:50 pm**

One of the things to watch in the conky fine tuning is the "max size" designation inside the conky files. I tweaked the current default by expanding that value to 700 (originally 550 I think) as "Wednesday" was cut off at the "d".

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:52 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote:@ Stevo and/or DO: why do the GoldGrey conkies show up? They are not in the GitHub repo.

I built with whatever came down in the update. So I don't know.

Or

Its also possible that I didn't get them removed from the home folder when doing the updating. compare ~/.conky vs. /usr/share/mx-conky-data and see if things match.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:59 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote:@Rich: can you do that, since you have the equipment? For all 4 conkies in the Default folder.

In the long run, we have a solution in the pipeline that will take care of this.

I can. You mean the ./conky folder. There are more than 4 in there.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:04 pm**

No, I mean the ./conky/Default folder. Those are the first-order ones we need to get polished for RC

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:07 pm**

dolphin_oracle wrote:
Jerry3904 wrote:@ Stevo and/or DO: why do the GoldGrey conkies show up? They are not in the GitHub repo.

I built with whatever came down in the update. So I don't know.

Or

Its also possible that I didn't get them removed from the home folder when doing the updating. compare ~/.conky vs. /usr/share/mx-conky-data and see if things match.

There is no GoldGrey in the /usr/... folder, so I wonder if there's something left over in ~/.conky/ by mistake? It should be empty at install until MX Conky is launched, right?

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:09 pm**

dolphin_oracle wrote:One of the things to watch in the conky fine tuning is the "max size" designation inside the conky files. I tweaked the current default by expanding that value to 700 (originally 550 I think) as "Wednesday" was cut off at the "d".

Thanks. I saw that was causing trouble when I tried to change the weekday format.

There's so many g-d factors to keep track of...

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:12 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote:No, I mean the ./conky/Default folder. Those are the first-order ones we need to get polished for RC

OK will do.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 5:47 pm**

Noticed b3 conky does not display the MX Linux version as it did in b2...kinda miss that...was that intentional?

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 5:54 pm**

Different conky...

Before the RC, we will want to settle on one of the 4 in the Default folder and do last adjustments.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 7:14 pm**

dolphin_oracle wrote:
Jerry3904 wrote:@ Stevo and/or DO: why do the GoldGrey conkies show up? They are not in the GitHub repo.

I built with whatever came down in the update. So I don't know.

Or

Its also possible that I didn't get them removed from the home folder when doing the updating. compare ~/.conky vs. /usr/share/mx-conky-data and see if things match.

They aren't part of the current 20171128 mx-conky-data package...

check with

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dpkg-query -L mx-conky-data

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 7:20 pm**

Gotham only has the default color defined hence the gold cannot be changed. Need to define a color 1 and change the code if want this capability.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 7:20 pm**

Stevo wrote:
dolphin_oracle wrote:
Jerry3904 wrote:@ Stevo and/or DO: why do the GoldGrey conkies show up? They are not in the GitHub repo.

I built with whatever came down in the update. So I don't know.

Or

Its also possible that I didn't get them removed from the home folder when doing the updating. compare ~/.conky vs. /usr/share/mx-conky-data and see if things match.
They aren't part of the current mx-conky-data package...

I found it. when I updated the the iso at the last minute, I did a copy into the .conky folder in etc/skel and it of course didn't remove any old ones... this is fixed for RC.

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 7:32 pm**

excellent, thanks

Posted: **Wed Nov 29, 2017 7:35 pm**

richb wrote:Gotham only has the default color defined hence the gold cannot be changed. Need to define a color 1 and change the code if want this capability.

Thanks. I had that fixed once, but something got lost along the way.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 3:11 am**

Out of the conky configs in the default subfolder, I like the gotham one the best. A big part for me is the use of ratio output vs. percentages. the other 3 use percentages. the ratios provide the same info, but clearer in my mind.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 4:55 am**

Thanks. We can shift parts around pretty easily, i.e., steal the ratio code from Gotham and paste it into the others. So if one *design* turns out to be the preferred, then we can move the code to it. I am fixing the Default folder as we go aloing, and will update it in a couple of days.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:19 am**

I like Gotham as well, but prefer percent used. With ratios I am never sure if it is used/total or free/total.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:41 am**

It isn't always clear, and I have fooled around with "MEM free" as well.

Am generally trying to minimize the necessity to translate so layout doesn't get messed up.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 6:14 am**

Ram strikes me differently for some reason mem used seems more clear. Clarification for disk usage would be to add used or free. eg. Root Used. But that gets wordy and takes up room. So not sure about that.

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 2:29 pm**

OK, heading toward RC and Final now and I want to concentrate on the conkies in the Default folder b/c it has been very hard for me to deal with all of them and these are the ones we need ready to go. And my time is running out.

Please download the new MX-Default folder linked below, then delete everything currently in ~/.conky/MX-Default and extract the zip file into the empty folder. Ignore colors for now, but otherwise examine structure, information, etc. Test localization in a Live context if possible, especially if you know the target language.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6cger84u46x41 ... 0.zip?dl=0

This process needs to finish by the end of the weekend, after which I will make any last changes, upload to the GitHum repo and have it packaged. The Dev Team will need to select one of these for Final.

TIA

Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2017 5:06 pm**

I should add that I have no idea whether a date like 11/30/17 will localize at all, but was trying got a Conky with minimal translation needs.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:34 am**

They look fine to me. One anomaly. With the default Gotham if I changed the day to short using MX Conky the bottom half of the conky was cut off. I corrected it by reducing the window height. Why that works is an unknown to me. Same result on both my desktop and laptop.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:35 am**

Thanks. That stuff is hard to figure out exactly. What width did you reduce it to?

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:37 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:Thanks. That stuff is hard to figure out exactly. What width did you reduce it to?

it was changing the height, not width. Corrected my post. Too early in the AM.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:38 am**

So...what height did you reduce it too?

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:40 am**

Jerry3904 wrote:Thanks. That stuff is hard to figure out exactly. What width did you reduce it to?

minimum_size 500 250

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:40 am**

That's what I have already in the new default Gotham: are you sure you opened the one in the Default folder?

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 9:48 am**

I just installed a fresh b3. It is in the default dirctory. That line with no changes is
minimum_size 0 0 and cutoff occurs

Changing it to
minimum_size 500 250 corrects.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:41 am**

Aha! But you're supposed to be testing the conkies in that file I linked to above, where that correction has already been made. I'm all set now, thanks.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:10 am**

Ok, so am i. Two machines and multiple installs has me gaga. I think they are in pretty good shape as they are.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:03 am**

Ever since I re-installed MX17 because encryption broke it MX Conky doesn't stay put to where I move it to. Every time I reboot it moved back to it's original location.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:05 am**

Nothing changed, check the Help file for details.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:13 am**

Mauser wrote:Ever since I re-installed MX17 because encryption broke it MX Conky doesn't stay put to where I move it to. Every time I reboot it moved back to it's original location.

How did you move your conky in the first place? Did you change the location in the script itself, or manually move it with Alt+mouse? If the latter, it will not survive any reboot, regardless.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:18 am**

That explains it. I moved it using Alt+mouse.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:03 am**

Might I respectfully suggest you check the Help files before posting?

The information you needed is clearly shown there.

Chris

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:21 am**

If Someone is interested in my Conky ... give a shot

Screenshot.png

Posted: **Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:35 am**

Looks interesting-can you send me the script in a PM along with anything else I need to take a careful look?

Thanks!

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:41 pm**

Hi Jerry
I did send you in PM the complete script ...
But you need also the LUA package ... I don't know how to send the complete package (.tar.gz) to you in PM

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:48 pm**

Look below message box for Attachment tab, thanks

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:52 pm**

Jerry3904 wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:48 pm Look below message box for Attachment tab, thanks

We have never allowed attachments in Private Messages for normal users. That can be changed.

Posted: **Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:58 pm**

Aha, thanks.

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