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

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?

By: londonali1010

londonali1010 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:07:41 +0000

@Rob: I’ve tested the links and they look okay to me. They will take you to another page with a download link on it, and that download link downloads the actual .tar.gz (sorry, it’s a quirk of Wordpress that makes it work like that).

Alternatively, you can download all of these scripts here: http://conky.linux-hardcore.com/?page_id=3331

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:51:52 +0000

Looks cool but those download links don’t seem to work.

By: mrjack

mrjack — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:16:11 +0000

Nice

Conky setup with widgets in the screenshot is also cool !