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You might have to play with the spaces.
I learn alot making it and almost gave up.
Its simple but has what i need.

could anyone give me a xmms config for conky to show the artist - title and time elapsed and total song time. please don't send me to a link because i tried everything and searched on forums. the xmms2 variabes are not good. every config that i tried including DJiNN one don't work, and in conky screenshots site it's a xmms config but i don't get how to install the file xmms.sh to the conky config.

Well, I've done a little bit of research and every how-to I've found requires the installation of "xmms-infopipe." Unfortunately, I'm not able to install it from the repos. If someone can figure out how to install it, I'm sure the conky thing would be easier to fix.

EDIT
Tried installing an xmms-infopipe .deb package from
http://packages.debian.org/etch/i386/xm ... e/download
but got the same error. Only thing I can think of is using some sort of flag (we've got libglib1.2ldbl but the .deb is expecting libglib1.2). Any help with this one?

EDIT
There is a tray plugin for xmms, but I can't install it from the repos - same problem as above; however, I did find somewhat of a solution if you use icewm:

Here's how to get an xmms tray icon:

1. Open the file ~/.icewm/winoptions

2. Add this line at the end

xmms.tray: Exclusive

3. Restart icewm using the applications menu

4. Launch xmms

If you hover your mouse over your tray icon, you will get artist, title, and song length info; however, you will not be able to control xmms with this tray icon. But hey, it's better than nothing!

So far, that's the best I can do.

john

Hello. I decided to rewrite my conky file using two lines and at the top of the screen. This layout makes it easier for me to resize my windows in a way that allows me to see all of my conky info as well as my icons at the bottom of the screen.



I want to adjust the colors, which I know how to do. And I want to have conky appear in a black band - almost mimicking the two panel look of gnome. Like in this screenshot

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/previ ... rrinaClean

This is something I don't know how to do. I have tried a couple of things, but I haven't quite figured it out yet. Any ideas? Thanks.

john

Well, I kinda figured out how to get conky looking like I want. It's still a little vanilla, but it's a lot closer to what I want than before.



I didn't write down what I did, but I'm pretty sure this is what I edited:

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own_window      yes
own_window_transparent   no
own_window_type      override
own_window_hints   undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

I got the ideas from one of the conky files at the conky website (go to screenshots and it's the last one).

john

@ICE-M : As a workaround to installing xmms-infopipe from the repos, you could try installing xmms-dev from the repos. It will pull in a few dependencies, but it looks like they should install ok. Then grab the xmms-infopipe source code from here

http://www.beastwithin.org/users/wwwwol ... opipe.html

and try compiling and installing from source.

john

A couple of useful links:

1. Conky Settings
http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html

2. Conky Variables
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html

They're from the home page, but it's nice to have them in one spot.

john

OU812,

Been playing with my conky and cannot seem to get the two lines like you have, mind sharing your conky config so I can try to get something similar?

cheers,
oldhoghead

@oldhoghead - check your mail. I sent you my conky with a few tips for customizing it for your system.

john

OU812,

Thank You!! I'm out of town at the moment, but will print it out and do some tweaking on mine. Will keep you posted and give a screen shot when I get it like I want.

cheers,
oldhoghead

There may be one last chance to have conky support for xmms. I checked with the conky packager at zenwalk. He said that if you build conky from source and xmms is already installed on your system, then you should have xmms support in conky. So maybe uninstall/purge conky from your box and then build it from source. Worth a try?

john

found it on the net. it detects if you are using wired,dial-up or wireless and displays the stats for the connection you have. so if you change from the wired to wireless the stats change them self. it shows ip, down, up, totaldown, totalup and graphs. feel free to modify it for your need.

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${if_empty ${exec cat /proc/net/arp | grep eth1}}${if_empty ${exec ps -e | grep pppd}}${alignc}${color white}wlan0: ${addr wlan0}$color
${alignc}${wireless_essid wlan0} (${wireless_ap wlan0})
${color 009900}${wireless_link_bar wlan0}$color
down: ${downspeed wlan0}k/s ${alignr}up: ${upspeed wlan0}k/s
total: ${totaldown wlan0} ${alignr} total: ${totalup wlan0}
${downspeedgraph wlan0 15,250 000000 000099} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 15,250 000000 990000}
${else}${alignc}${color white}ppp0: ${addr ppp0}$color
down: ${downspeed ppp0}k/s ${alignr}up: ${upspeed ppp0}k/s
total: ${totaldown ppp0} ${alignr} total: ${totalup ppp0}
${downspeedgraph ppp0 15,250 000000 000099} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph ppp0 15,250 000000 990000}${endif}
${else}${alignc}${color white}eth1: ${addr eth1}$color
down: ${downspeed eth1}k/s ${alignr}up: ${upspeed eth1}k/s
total: ${totaldown eth1} ${alignr} total: ${totalup eth1}
${downspeedgraph eth1 15,250 000000 000099} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 15,250 000000 990000}
${endif}

If you run multiple conkys or you use desktop icons, you may want to edit your conkytoggle script (/usr/local/bin/conkytoggle.sh) as described here:

http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-11599.html

john

Here is mine. Nothing special.

Click on the actual picture to make it bigger

http://img17.imageshack.us/i/screenshot003ra.png/

Cheers

Here is my version of conky. I got a little carried away (read obsessed) with the weather function. Very neat!

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4491/conkyx.jpg

and my .conkyrc

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# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont FreeSans MS:size=10
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
#    own_window yes
#   own_window_transparent yes
#    own_window_type desktop
#    own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 300 0
maximum_width 300

# 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 5

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
own_window_colour white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_left

# Gap between borders of screen and text
same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 10
gap_y 15

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

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

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

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

# colours
color1 white
# light blue
color2 6892C6
# orange
#E77320
color3 FC8820
# green
color4 78BF39
# red
color5 CC0000

TEXT
SYSTEM ${hr 2}
Host:  ${alignr}${nodename}
Kernel:  ${alignr}${kernel}
CPU: ${cpu cpu}% ${alignr}${cpubar 8,175 cpu}
RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,175}
RAM: ${alignr} $mem/$memmax
SWAP: ${swap}% ${alignr}${swapbar 8,175 cpu}
Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}

DATE ${hr 2}
${alignc 20}${font Trebuchet MS:size=14}${time %I:%M %p}${font}
${alignc}${time %a %d %b %Y}
HD ${hr 2}
Home: ${alignc}${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,125 /home}
Root: ${alignc}${fs_free /root}/${fs_size /root} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8, 125 /root}
Video: ${alignc}${fs_free /home/Jeff/Video}/${fs_size /home/Jeff/Video} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,125 /home/Jeff/Video}

NETWORK ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
Up: ${upspeed wlan0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Down: ${downspeed wlan0} kb/s ${downspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Upload: ${alignr}${totalup wlan0}
Download: ${alignr}${totaldown wlan0}
Signal: ${wireless_link_qual wlan0}% ${alignr}${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlan0}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}Totaluo: ${totalup eth0}
${upspeedgraph eth0 20,300 789E2D A7CC5C}
Down: ${downspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}Totaldown: ${totaldown eth0}
${downspeedgraph eth0 20,300 789E2D A7CC5C}
IP: ${alignr} ${addr eth0}${endif}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
Up: ${upspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Down: ${downspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth1 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth1}
Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth1}${endif}${else}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}4${font}   Network Unavailable${endif}

Processes${hr 2}
processes: $processes  ${alignr}running: $running_processes
Name ${alignr}PID   CPU%  MEM%
${top name 1} ${alignr}${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}   ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${alignr}${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}   ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${alignr}${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}   ${top mem 3}

${offset -5}${color3}${font StyleBats:style=CleanCut:size=12}q ${voffset -2}${font Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold:size=11}Weather${font}  ${hr}${color1}
#${color3}Template Output:${color1}
${execpi 600 conkyForecast --location=CAXX0664 --template=/home/Jeff/Conky/conkyForecast.jm}
#${execpi 600 conkyForecast --location=CAXX0664 --template=/usr/share/conkyforecast/example/conkyForecast.template}