Comments on: Widgets in Conky? It can be done!

By: MartinKG

MartinKG — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:09:49 +0000

Hi, londonali1010,

could you tell me what font you use on the top screeni ?

thanks Martin

By: Robert Finley

Robert Finley — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:27:25 +0000

I had the same problem as several other people above with downloading and extracting. Someone over at ubuntuforums.org passed me a script that kinda works. It has a black box behind it though and it disappears as soon as I click on the desktop.

screenshot: http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m503/finley-rob/clock.png

This is my first foray into running scripts. I am obviously no programmer but I am trying to understand how this works.

By: Tweaking conky to have widgets Problem

Tweaking conky to have widgets Problem — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:44:02 +0000

[...] i have installed conky on linux mint and conkywizard i wish to have conky as given in : http://blog.conky.be/2009/10/19/widg…t-can-be-done/ [...]

By: renodesper

renodesper — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:03:35 +0000

It’s solved!
thanks for the widgets

By: renodesper

renodesper — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 05:16:25 +0000

I’ve some problem with my conky… When I tried to call conky, my terminal showing this:
Conky: can’t open /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/uevent: No such file or directory
Conky: can’t open /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state: No such file or directory

By: daasdingo

daasdingo — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:50:49 +0000

@doug:

You are using the wrong command for unpacking!
should be one of those:
tar xaf //auto detection, only newer versions of tar
tar xzf //because its a tar.GZ you need the z

@londonali:
great work, I am using your lua widget script and its just perfect!

By: Doug Estey

Doug Estey — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:03:03 +0000

Of course, it’s some kind of issue with Firefox.

Download works perfect using wget i.e.:

wget http://blog.conky.be/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/conky_widgets.tar.gz

Cheers.

By: Doug Estey

Doug Estey — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:00:23 +0000

The link at Conky Hardcore doesn’t provide a .conkyrc script.

And the downloads here don’t work.

vision@phoenix:~/Downloads$ tar xvf conky_widgets.lua.tar.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I’m a Conky noob, so while I’ve got Lua/Cairo installed and have the widgets script being called, it simply displays the widgets behind the (ugly) black & grey clock.

Time to figure out how to get this going, I suppose.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:42:30 +0000

I’m trying to get this work, and I’m not sure what part is failing.

I downloaded Air clock and Rings, as well as the conky widgets holder script.

I’m using the sample .conkyrc, which correctly displays the date, and system values (cpu… etc). But none of the cairo/lua visual elements show up.

This is on a fresh Karmic install of conky 1.7.2. I had to install lua, but cairo was already installed. Any suggestion on what a minimal test would be? It doesn’t appear to be a conky problem. That is, I’ve got other conky’s running just fine, and this rc works too, except for the widgets.

Any suggetions appreciated.

By: jazz

jazz — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:16:18 +0000

I’m used to editing conkyrc files. Wait, that’s almost like saying, Hey trial-and-error saves the day! The most I’ve done was flip conky sideways to save on screen space (from this _ to this | ). Will there be a danger of me turning into a 133t lua code warrior?