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exarobibliologist — Desktop Conky
Published: 2011-07-19 03:42:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 4816; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 245
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So I decided to port my laptop Conky setup to my desktop. Main bonus in this: It's bigger!!It took me an hour to get all the packages installed and configured - conky-all, conkyWeather. Then I ported the scripts I designed on my laptop over to the desktop.
However, not satisfied to leave it alone with no modifications, I redesigned the conkyWeather script so it is image-based weather. I'm not using the conkyWeather font anymore. Now, I'm using images to display the weather!
Going to an image-based script took longer than I originally expected - about an hour to figure out how it worked, and 20 minutes to write my own and test it repeatedly. Currently, the only image I'm using is for the weather icon. I plan to add a windspeed icon soon.
I also added a new line in the weather output which counts down to sunset/sunrise.
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Nice blue color... i think a lot of conky but is great...
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Thanks. The unified color was the hardest to get. I used kcolorchooser to match the desktop wallpaper colors.
The problem I ran into was that Ubuntu doesn't have a program that can convert from HEX to CMYK, so in order to match AwOkEn I had to write my own color conversion program.
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