The MX-17 conkies

[Jerry3904]

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

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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.

[richb]

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.

[Jerry3904]

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.

[richb]

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.

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[Jerry3904]

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

[tascoast]

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

[richb]

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

[ldsemerchen]

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

[Jerry3904]

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]

[richb]

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.