Re: Conky Showoff thread
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:42 am
Thank youpcpunk wrote:@ Sector11, nice work!
RE: Run 16 on bootDon't know what you are talking about here, "run 16 on boot, read three and shut them down etc."
And the next sentence also, why would I need to killall and restart four? I just want to either create one that will span the top of screen (with the Conky I have) or run multiple across top and put a little of the script I'm using in each one. I've tried to make it wider, and generally played with the width and height settings to no avail. Either way it is nice to use the manager, but I'm guessing some of these things will not be possible using it?
When I start my computer, I start 16 conkys. Three are in "Windows" just like other applications
If you take "undecorated" out of the line:
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own_window_hints skip_taskbar,skip_pager,undecorated,below,sticky
That feature comes in handy at times.
RE: Why "killall conky" and restart a fixed list of conkys (4 in the example)
Well, at times I kill all my conkys to test/develop conkys for other people. With that little bash script that starts all my conkys when I fire-up my computer in the morning the killall does nothing but it starts my conkys.
So if I'm testing a couple of conkys for someone and finish the work I simply call that script and it kills the 'test' conkys and starts mine again. You could use a similar script without the "killall" command to start two conkys you want when you start up your computer. Most people aren't as conky crazy as I am and actually leave them running all the time.
Also: If you only run one conky you don't need a bash script to start you conky at all. Just:
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conky
and IF you need a delay time use the built in conky delay
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-p | --pause= SECONDS
Time to pause before actually starting Conky
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conky -p 10
Will visit your other thread.