10,000 posts: Congrats to Ubuntu Forums’ Conky thread!
This is just a quick post to say congratulations to everyone over on the Conky thread at Ubuntu Forums: they ticked over their 10,000th post on Friday, 23rd October! It's one of the most active Conky threads I've ever seen (if not the most active EVER!) and took just three years and two days to get to 10,000 posts, an average of just under 10 posts a day.
Whilst the Ubuntu Forums thread has contributions from users of all distros, if you'd like to check out some other distro-specific Conky threads, here are a few to get you started:
If I've left out your favourite thread, post a link in the comments and let me know!
Widgets in Conky? It can be done!
If you haven't already jumped on the Conky 1.7.2 bandwagon, now may be the time to try it out...I've written a new script in Lua, that will allow you to draw widgets to your Conky window, a la this screenie:
The Conky above is a combination of four separate widgets (one clock and 4 semi-rings) in the Conky Widgets script, and all the text is written with Conky. You can download the Lua script and .conkyrc that made it here: conky_widgets.tar.gz.
This Conky Widgets script is essentially a "shell" to hold blocks of widget code, with the idea that you or anyone else can write blocks of code and call them simply in a single script, without having to make drastic changes to your script or to your Conky. To use it with your Conky, download the empty script here: conky_widgets.lua.tar.gz. Then download one or more code blocks: Air Clock (air_clock_wb.txt.tar.gz) or Ring Meter (ring_wb.txt.tar.gz). Simply copy the code block into the empty widget script, following the instructions in the script's header.
Finally, call your widgets with the following code before TEXT in your .conkyrc:
lua_load ~/scripts/conky_widgets.lua lua_draw_hook_pre widgets
Have a go and see what you can do! And if you write a widget code block yourself, please do post it here so we can all see what you've done.
(Don't have Conky 1.7.2 installed yet? Start here!)
Conky 1.7.2 Available in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Repositories
Just for Ubuntu users: I've put together a quick guide to the Conky packages that will be available in the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala repositories. (The Karmic release is scheduled for 29 October, 2009.)
If you are interested, please check it out over on the Ubuntu Forums.
New Blog Feature: Screenshots!
This is just a quickie post to draw your attention to the newest feature of the blog: a compilation of screenshots! I'll be using it to showcase all the screenshots from the blog, all in one place, with reference back to the post from whence they came.
I hope that you will find the screenshot page to be a bit of inspiration!
To get there, simply click on the "Screenshots" button at the top of the page.
Happy Conkying!