Gmail, Weather, Beauty on your Ubuntu Desktop

Gmail+Weather+Beauty right on your Ubuntu desktop

Published by ashokgelal

Sep 27

[Update:After being hit severely by 'Digg Effect' when this post made to the front page this morning, this site is back again. Thank you for your patience, Diggs (Buries) and Comments folks! Digg on!]

Update2: Links updated. Instead of serving files from MediaFire, DropBox is used. Also, those of you having problem with weather or anything else don’t forget to read the comments. Thanks to everyone using this post and spreading the words because of which my hosting server is down several times!

Ever wished that you had new mails notifications right on your desktop? Ever wished you knew the weather info right on your desktop? Ever wished you had your hardware information right on your desktop? Ever wished your desktop was productive and beautiful at the same time? Ever wished you didn’t have to use Mac4Lin theme to hide the ‘ugliness’ of Ubuntu’s native appearance? Ever wished you had a desktop that looked as beautiful as mine? Let’s fulfil your wish:

I have already talked about how to make your Ubuntu desktop look beautiful and productive. This time I will focus mostly on Conky. Conky is a lightweight system monitor for X. Not only monitoring system, with a little bit of scripting, it can be useful to know your new mails, weather info etc.

Here I’ve attached all the required files, attached my Conky configuration file and explained how to make your desktop look similar to mine.

[Updated]

Read my previous post about AWN and Gnome-Do.
Install Conky:
$ sudo apt-get install conky
Download this file and save in your home directory(Right-click, Save Link As…save the file as .conkyrc)
Make a directory scripts in your home directory. Download these scripts, extract and copy them inside the directory you just created.
Download all these fonts, extract and copy them inside .fonts directory in your home directory. If you don’t have the .fonts directory, you need to create it. You might need to have administrative privileges to create this directory.
Open .conkyrc file. Look for this line:
${execpi 300 python ~/scripts/gmail_parser.py yourgmailusername yourgmailpassword 3}
Replace yourgmailusernamewith your username and yourgmailpassword with Gmail password. You might also need to install python-feedparser (thanks Onno and Neil for bringing this to my attention)
$ sudo apt-get install python-feedparser
To monitor your hard disk and CPU temperature install lm-sensors and hddtemp
$sudo apt-get install hddtemp $sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
Now you need to know the location id for your location for weather info. Head to http://weather.yahoo.com. Enter city or zip code for your location and click go. Copy the location ID from the adress bar. For examples the location id for Geneva, Switzerland is SZXX0013, for Kathmandu, Nepal is NPXX0003
Open pogodynka.sh file look for this line kod=USID0025. Replace USID0025 with the location ID you got from step 10 above
If you want the temperature in Celsius instead of Farenheit, find the following line:
w3m -dump http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/"$kod".html | grep -A21 "Current" | sed 's/DEG/°/g' > $plik
Replace it with:
w3m -dump http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/"$kod"_c.html | grep -A21 “Current” | sed ’s/DEG/°/g’ > $plik
Create a new empty file in your home directory. Name it weather. Leave the file as it is; do nothing with the file.
Bring Run Applicationdialog box (Alt+F2) type conky to launch it
If everything goes right, your desktop should be looking much ‘cooler’

More info:

My wallpaper, The Farm House, is from http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1545/the_farmhouse.html
Emerald Theme is Scaled_Black_Mod from gnome-look.org
More variables for conky
Settings variables for conky

[If you want to share your desktop and want me to show the best looking desktops on my blog, shoot an email to admin[at]quicktweaks[dot]com along with the screenshot of your desktop and the conky file (if you wish). If you decide to send your conky file, don’t forget to delete your gmail username and password. Sharing is learning!]

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Filed under: Design, Design, Desktop, Linux, Software, System, AWN, conky, gnome-do, Linux, ubuntu

160 Responses

Jamie Souef Says:

Great tutorial. It really puzzles me why Ubuntu comes standard with a fugly interface when something as clean and elegant as this is achievable.. This is where linux falls down if you ask me. Very ugly, boring UIs (and that my friends, is what the masses want!)

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zelrik Reply:
October 1st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
That’s partly due to the fact that ubuntu can be installed on any computer …new or old and I am not sure that you can do that on an old computer.
The ubuntu team is working on it as you can read on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog.

PS : OMG They should fix that webpage, I hate when I have to write in a box that is black over black!!! I have a black theme and that page doesnt like it, and my theme isnt the one to blame.

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Jamie Souef Reply:
October 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
That’s a good point about Ubuntu supporting old hardware, but at the same time support should be there for new PC. Legacy support is one of the reasons Windows Vista is the way it is.

If people want to keep there old PC’s they should be satisfied:) with old software

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Posted on September 28th, 2008 at 1:29 am
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Posted on September 28th, 2008 at 6:20 am
VGH Says:

Step 10 .

What do we need to do with location ID. do we need to paste it into the file which is named weather ?. I tried this, but the weather file created gets overwritten by conky each time it is started

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Posted on September 28th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Bert Says:

very nice but i have one question:
How can i get the tempereture in Celcius

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smolty Reply:
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
w3m -dump http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/“$kod”.html | grep -A21 “Current” | sed ’s/DEG/°/g’ > $plik

needs to change to:

w3m -dump http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/“$kod”/forecast.html?unit=c | grep -A21 “Current” | sed ’s/DEG/°/g’ > $plik

Think yahoo must have changed this on their website. To change the letters from F to C, change;

echo $temp F / $tempo F

to,

echo $temp C / $tempo C

and remember to put the right location code after kod=
Save the file.
Terminal: killall conky (hit enter to close conky)
conky (hit enter, conky restarts with temp)

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Posted on September 28th, 2008 at 8:56 am
admin Says:

@vgh and @bert. The post is updated to cover your questions. Please go through the tutorial once more. Sorry for the inconvenience and confusion.

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Posted on September 28th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
swag01 Says:

Your panel text is unreadable.

To do this type this in the terminal: sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser

Then go System > Preferences > Gnome Color Chooser

Then click the Panel tab and change to Normal Foreground color to white or whatever color is the most readable in a transparent panel.

Thanks

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justin Reply:
October 24th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
sweeet!! thanks i was wondering how this could be achieved. thanks for posting.

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Posted on September 28th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Insomniac_vampire Says:

I cannot get 2 things to work.
1. The Temperature displays in Celsius but i still have LETTER “F” while it should be “C”.
2. Gmail checker is not working.

Help Please. thanks

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Bruce Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 12:32 am
In pogodynka.sh replace

echo $temp F / $tempo F

with

echo $temp C / $tempo C

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Kartik Mistry Says:

Amazing post. I loved openlogo things with conky

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 4:43 am
foobar Says:

Ugliness shines through, no matter what you do. Look at that non-transparent scroll bar and look at that “XBMC media center” to display its ugly logo and text.

No themes or nice wallpapers are going to help all those ugly looking bundled in and “3rd party” apps you have to use. Good design and desire for it has to be everywhere.

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 5:14 am
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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Onno Says:

If your new mail does not show up (i.e. gmail feed is not read), check your Python modules. I had to install the feedparser module:

sudo apt-get install python-feedparser

Onno

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admin Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
@Onno: Thanx for bringing that to my notice. I will update the post to include this.

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Sponty Says:

I’m fairly new to Ubuntu, and I’m having some trouble getting conky working as it’s supposed to. I’ve gone through all of the steps and I’m fairly sure that I’ve done everything properly (of course, if it isn’t working, something’s up).

Whenever I try to run conky, instead of it opening up on the desktop as beautifully as yours appears, it opens in this ugly little window with tiny white text on a black background. It displays information like uptime, CPU usage, etc.

I’m wondering if anyone knows what issue I’m experiencing here, and how I might go about fixing it.

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Jim R Reply:
October 1st, 2008 at 6:34 am
Run in the ALT-F2 box:

conky -c ~/conkyrc

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deeaycee Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Check to make sure that when you saved the file .conkyrc , that it saved as that file name and NOT conkyrc.htm . When I right clicked to save the file, the name defaulted with the htm extension and it took me a bit to finally figure out what happened. Good luck.

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Sam Says:

Hey, how do I add CPUs to the conkyrc file? I have a quad-core processor, and I wanna see all my CPUs up there.

thanks in advance,

Sam

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admin Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Just look for the entries CPU1, CPU2 in conkyrc file and add your additional CPUs. It is pretty self explanatory.

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Neil Says:

This was a very helpful post, thanks. Two notes:
On my system I had to add:
“sudo apt-get install python-feedparser” since this module was missing.
Also, for those wanting Celsius, it is nice to also grep for ‘F’ in the pogodynka.sh script and change these to C.

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admin Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
@Neil: Thanx for bringing that to my notice. I will update the post to include this.

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 8:54 am
sean Says:

awesome, just one problem, it wont read my gmail….

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 8:55 am
sean Says:

scratch that, it works now (thanx Neil) one more question though, is there a way to change the colors? some of it clashes with my background…

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admin Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
@sean there are ways to change the colors. Just declare a color value as
color1 ffcc00
color2 ccdd0
color3 white
….so on
just before the line you want to print include {color1} that’s it

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Zake Naio Says:

hi. Must say that i loved the tutorial.
But having a problem with my dual-monitor setup (second screen just showing 420×380ish) i had to reconfigure alot, but thats the fun part right =)

Now to my problem. I Can not make the weather and gmail to work. Other than that. Puuurfect.

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admin Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
@Naio: After you are done with dual setting don’t forget to share how you did it along with the screenshot of your desktop. You can send me an email at admin[at]quicktweaks[dot]com

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 11:06 am
kbean Says:

i have the same problem as sponty

conky comes up in a black ugly window, not on the desktop

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Grizz Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I had this issue when I first started. The instructions tell you to put everything in your home directory. Well, really, it needs to go in home/username in order work. Once I moved the .conkyrc file and the additional folders into ../home/Grizz everything worked as advertised.

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Insomniac_vampire Says:

Thanks for advice, now my “C” and gmail works now.

One last thing is the battery bar of mine is not showing.

Please help.

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Tim Says:

Same as sponty too… black box only
any ideas?

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Tim Says:

Never mind… it’s always the fine print!

be sure to “save the file as .conkyrc”
not conkyrc as it would be by default when you save as

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Insomniac_vampire Says:

I got the battery bar working already by changing to BAT1 in .conkyc

Thanks all

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Sponty Says:

Ah, you’re right Tim!
Thanks!

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Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 8:58 am
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Nate Says:

enjoyed, but i have two problems…
1. weather isn’t working. i’ve tried to fix it but can’t figure out what wrong.

2. i am hard wired into my network and this set up won’t show my data streams, how do i fix that?

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admin Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
@Nate: make sure you have followed each and every steps properly to make ‘weather’ work. About network, what data streams are you talking about? Info about your network? conky is also able to show you information about your wireless connection but that depends on your wireless card.

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Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Rishi Says:

This conky thing is beautiful….however, i’m having issues. I am getting these errors:

cat: /home/rishijain/weather: Is a directory
/home/rishijain/scripts/pogodynka.sh: 50: cannot create /home/rishijain/weather: Is a directory
head: error reading `/home/rishijain/weather’: Is a directory
tail: error reading `/home/rishijain/weather’: Is a directory
head: error reading `/home/rishijain/weather’: Is a directory
head: error reading `/home/rishijain/weather’: Is a directory
head: error reading `/home/rishijain/weather’: Is a directory
head: error reading `/home/rishijain/weather’: Is a directory
head: error reading `/home/rishijain/weather’: Is a directory
head: error reading `/home/rishijain/weather’: Is a directory
localhost [127.0.0.1] 7634 (?) : Connection refused

the weather thing isn’t working, and the connection refused thing keeps coming. Any ideas?

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david Reply:
October 11th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
fix:
delete weather directory:
$ rmdir /home/rishijain/weather
create a file called directory:
$ touch /home/rishijain/weather

thats all.

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Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Dave Says:

I got most of it working however my bars don’t become transparent, is that a something I should set myself manually?

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admin Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
@Dave: Which bar are you talking about? If you are talking about the Battery/CPU bars, then they are not transparent. I’ve given the colors so that they blend with the background and they look if they are transparent

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Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Zeroday Says:

where is the pogodynka.sh script??

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Trock Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
in the scripts folder

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Zeroday Reply:
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
i found a scripts folder in my home directory but theres no pogodynaka.sh file

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Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Michael Says:

But it looks so ugly?! Lol…

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Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Dac Says:

Hello,

I seem to have a problem with starting conky automatically, if I add conky under sessions it loads up with a kind of black frame around it and it stays on top of every window.

It only works good if I start it up manually (Alt F2, Conky).

Any advice?

Thanks

DaC

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admin Reply:
October 1st, 2008 at 9:18 am
Unfortunately, that’s the problem with everyone. Starting conky automatically doesn’t work well. It loads up with a black frame and sits on top of every window. I’m also trying to figure it out and as soon as find a way to make it work, I will update the post. So, keep coming back.

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jaydei Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
In the conkyrc file, changing the own_window_type parameter from “override” to “normal” (without the quotes) seems to fix this for me. Hope this helps.

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Tenzin Monlam Reply:
October 27th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Hi, I was facing this issue and after quick search I found very good post that resolved my issue.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=357807

Do this:

Go to your home folder, and create a new document. Call it something like ‘.conky_start.sh’ It should contain the following

#!/bin/bash
sleep 6 && conky;

The # after ’sleep’ tells the computer how long to wait until starting conky. This way you can wait until after the desktop is drawn, and then put conky on top of it

Then do a chmod on it and add execute privileges

sudo chmod +x .conky_start.sh

Finally, go to system -> prefeneces -> sessions
pick the ’statup’ tab
remove the conky entry
click add
browse for your ‘.conky_startup.sh’ file

and you should be good to go.

By the way, everything seems to be working fine but I seems to have a problem with the text alignment. They are not sticking. Specially in the case of the processor & memory usage status.
Here is the screen shot of the conky (issue is highlighted in green).
screen shot: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4680/screenshotrr6.jpg
.conkyrc: http://drop.io/conkyrc
Thanks for the great post. You really changed my desktop , now it is more polished. Thanks a millions..

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ashokgelal Reply:
October 27th, 2008 at 9:54 am
@Tenzin Monlam: Thank you so much for taking some time showing us how to do it. I’m glad that me and quicktweaks.com were able to help you make your desktop damn cool!

ben Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
“own_window_hints below” in my .conkyrc sorts the window always on top problem (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=277369)

bit of window flickering on refresh - lifehacker recons double_buffer should sort it - but i see it is already enabled in the supplied file. (found this at - http://lifehacker.com/5067341/customize-conky-for-ambient-linux-productivity)

I cant get at my gmail going, but otherwise niceone thanks for the tutorial…

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Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 6:04 am
pandi Says:

Wow, this is really great! I just recently found conky, and now this makes it even better. If anyone is interested, I wrote a little script a couple months ago that puts a continuously updating day & night map of the earth onto the desktop, with ~current cloud coverage, to make it look pretty. You can check it out here if you like: https://sites.google.com/site/sweetlinuxstuff/day–night-desktop

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Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 6:05 am
Jeff Says:

One change i would and will make is to use eterm instead of terminal. you can get a totally transparent terminal that “sits” on the desktop like conky with a few command line switches. I use it now and will use it once I apply this . If anyone is interested in the switches, please let me know. I will email them or post them here when i get home if anyone wants them.

Also, does anyone know how to get the forecast in teh weather?

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admin Reply:
October 1st, 2008 at 9:03 am
@Jeff: We like to see what you have got, for sure. If you want to share anything with us, you are most welcome. You can shoot an email to admin[at]quicktweaks[dot]com. If it deserves to be shared with others, I will certainly post it under your name.
Thanks

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justin Reply:
October 24th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
i would love to know how to install eterminal and have it transparent and all. i am newbie…

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Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 7:01 am
WladyX Says:

Ablosutly awsome desktop!! I really, really love it, and i’m really picky about desktops, i’ll try it later! It rocks! Thanks for sharing.

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Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 8:32 am
CyberCowboy Says:

Any idea how I’d modify the script to tell me if a different e-mail account (has IMAP and POP3 access) has mail rather than GMail?

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admin Reply:
October 1st, 2008 at 9:07 am
@CyberCowboy: the idea of getting mails from GMail is very simple - GMail allows to read mail as feed. Any other mail provider which facilitates reading mails as feed should fit well with conky. I don’t have any other accounts other than GMail but I will try to figure it out. In the meantime, if you figured out anything, don’t forget to share with us.

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Matt Reply:
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Cybercowboy: I know your post is old, but if you are still having the issue: while I haven’t tried it (I use gmail, so the script included works great for me) there are arguments you can add in to the conkyrc file that should work for any email you can access via pop or imap. (you can only get the message count, not the actual message content)

The variables are imap_unseen or pop3_unseen, both with the attributes host user pass [-i interval] [-p port] [-e command]. So….

${pop3_unseen imap.gmail.com myusername mypassword 2 995}

would pull down my gmail unread count every two minutes on port 995 (gmail uses SSL).

All this and more from:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html

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Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 8:39 am
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Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 9:06 am
Paul Says:

Looks good? Yes. Useful and easy to use? Nope.

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Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 11:11 am
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Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 6:13 pm
showtime Says:

Hey There

All is working perfectly loving the look. I’m wondering how to get my conky to update, my time and weather etc all stay the same, is there any way I can accomplish this?

Thanks Bud

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Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 7:43 am
Dave Says:

Hi! Thanks for sharing this. “Default” Ubuntu theme looks like a 70′ sci-fi movie watched today… jaw dropping & laughable.

Maybe just a silly question from a ubuntu rookie - how do you make such mac style menu bar at the bottom?

Once this is known, I switch to this 21st century desktop immediately

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ashokgelal Reply:
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
@Dave:
Read my previous post Three Little Things To Make Your Ubuntu Desktop Beautiful and Productive on how to make Mac style menu bar (BTW it’s called dock bar).

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Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Rick Says:

Not really sure what I did wrong but for whatever reason all the icons that should be there for conky are instead replaced by single letters . . . also I did the weather just as said in the tutorial and I’ll I’ve got is F / F . . . any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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ashokgelal Reply:
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
@Rick: It seems that you haven’t copied all the required fonts. Make sure you have downloaded all the fonts and have copied it inside /your home director/fonts directory. Also, to change F/F to C/C, look for F/F in pogodynka.sh file and replace with C/C. Let me know if it worked.

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Rick Reply:
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Yep that did it, thanks.

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Rick Reply:
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Okay I guess I lied - the icons are there now but still no weather. I changed the info in the script and made a weather file but still nothing.

Mike Reply:
November 4th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
When I installed it, there was a formatting problem when I pasted into the .conkyrc file. When I manually edited it instead of pasting into gedit, it worked fine with the instructions provided.

Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
m.ost Says:

I love all the mods you made to the desktop, but I’m having one problem. Conky runs fine, but instead of the transparent sleek look that you have, mine simply runs as white text on a black backround. Do you know where i might have gone wrong?

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Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
WladyX Says:

for imap you can find here a rc file and imap script:

http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

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Posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 am
Zeroday Says:

hello this should fix the problem with the startup of conky, it doesnt take over the section of the desktop

use_xft yes
xftfont verdana:size=8
alignment top_right
xftalpha 0.8
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no

can someone help me find the script folder? i found one but it doesnt have the pogodynka.sh file
stippled_borders 10
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_shade_color grey
default_outline_color black
default_color BADCDD
use_spacer none
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
color1 F8DF58

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Zeroday Reply:
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
my bad its

use_xft yes
xftfont verdana:size=8
alignment top_right
xftalpha 0.8
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 10
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_shade_color grey
default_outline_color black
default_color BADCDD
use_spacer none
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
color1 F8DF58

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Posted on October 3rd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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Posted on October 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Ebtoulson Says:

Hey guys. I can’t seem to get my gmail or weather to work. I’ve started over twice now but still nothing. (Everything else works perfect).

Heres a pic
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn74/Ebtoulson/Screenshot.png

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elbeto Reply:
November 16th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I have exactly the same problem,

If you know of a solution please let me know @ riverazo@lycos.com

Thanks

elbeto

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Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Emma Says:

Hello, nice conky.
Do you know how to add the forecast, like something saying: “tomorrow: sunny 25º/9″ or something?

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Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
stat Says:

Great tips here. I love conky but this has helped me go to another level and so simple. Well written, thank a lot for the post.

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Ce frumos se poate configura Ubuntu ! Says:

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Ravnos Says:

Ok, I found a solution to the black background thing for KDE3 users. Might work for Gnome users too, but I don’t know if it’s the same problem. Basically, conky sets its background using the root window, and KDE’s background is not on the root window. The easiest way to make the two match is using an app called feh. I found it in the Mandriva repos, I’m sure (k)Ubuntu’s repos will have it too. Install it and type “feh –bg-center `dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface currentWallpaper 1`. If you use a background that’s not the same resolution as your desktop, you’ll need to use –bg-scale instead of –bg-center. KDE4 users will have to change the dcop part of the command to whatever the KDE4/D-Bus equivalent is (I’m not using KDE4 yet, so I’m not sure.) Gnome users would obviously have to find another way to get their background info in there. After this, conky should be transparent.

You can add this to your .conkyrc as an exec line to make it run automagically when conky starts, or run it with your autostart. I am still looking for a good way to get it to work with rotating desktops. The easy solution would be to use execi or texeci in my .conkyrc and have it run it every so often, but that seems like it would be more resource intensive than I would like. Ideally, it would run with the changeWallpaper command, so if anyone knows how to do that, I’m open to suggestions.

Found this solution at http://briancarper.net/2006/08/25/transparent-conky-in-kde-part-2/ . Hopefully someone finds it as helpful as I did.

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
JoshP Says:

Anybody having problems with network info.. you might have to change the lines that eth1 to eth0 in your .conkyrc

type ‘ifconfig’ to see which one you should use

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
justin Says:

hello, this is fabulous but having 2 problems…

1.hdd temp not working, however when i installed it it asked me if i wanted to have it automatically loaded up when comp starts. i said no but can change this. was wondering if ppl ran into this prompt when installing as well.

2.battery is not showing. the above post that mentioned BAT1 i didnt get it to work.

o yea! and my gmail is showing how many emails i have and such but i cant click on it??? i thought you be able to click on it to open you email.. but no such link?

thanks so much, i am newb no doubt.

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Bruce Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 12:44 am
To get the battery going see
http://linuxinside.blogspot.com/2008/03/set-battery-in-conky-correctly.html

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justin Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
thanks man appreciate it

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
justin Says:

almost forgot, how do you change from military time to standard?? i looked in the files but i didnt see how i could change it. thanks:)

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ashokgelal Reply:
October 24th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
@justin:
Open .conkyrc file in a text editor. Find the following line:

${font Radio Space:size=55}${time %H:%M}

Replace H with I (I as in ice-cream)

It should look like this:

${font Radio Space:size=55}${time %I:%M}

If you want to show am/pm too, add %p just after %M:

${font Radio Space:size=55}${time %I:%M %p}

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justin Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
ahh! dope, thanks bro, so “I” stands for standard i guess…thanks a bunch peace

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
j13 Says:

Umm, I get letters instead of pictures on the sidebar
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zdxdqdbnlo2
mediafire decided not to show it as a picture >_>

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Bruce Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Make sure you did step 5. Install the fonts!

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Halp! Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Do I have to do something specifically with the fonts after putting them in a the fonts folder? Install them somehow? That picture is exactly what my desktop looks like.

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Halp! Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Nevermind, I figured it out but I still can’t get the weather to work. It just says F/F instead of displaying temperatures next to the F’s. Also there is no sun but the other fonts have been intalled. Hmm… anybody know what’s up?

j13 Reply:
October 27th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I did follow step 5. However, it did not work for me until I rebuilt my font cache by opening up the terminal and running:
sudo fc-cache -f -v

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
B On The Move - Tech News » Blog Archive » Beautifully Minimalist Conky Setup [Featured Desktop] Says:

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Jim Says:

I get a weird failure like this on Kubuntu 8.10:

Conky: desktop window (1c0006d) is subwindow of root window (188)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0×3a00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
Serial number of failed request: 167
Current serial number in output stream: 168

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Craig Says:

I seem to be having a problem with the line in the script that dumps the weather page.

As written, I get no output in the weather file. The only way I can get anything at all is to remove the grep and sed statements, which returns the entire page.

I have also tried w3m -dump http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/“$kod”_c.html > $plik | grep -A21 “Current” | sed ’s/DEG/°/g’.
It still just outputs the full page but seems to grep and find “Current” correctly (highlighted in the file) and on my desktop, it shows the cloud icon then “C / .Sports C” so it is parsing the file and grabbing the bullet and the word Sports.

So confused…

Thanks,
craig

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Husam Says:

Is Gnome-Do skinnable or does it adapt to the desktop theme?
If it is skinnable can someone please explain how I can make
it look like the screenshot above?

Awesome desktop btw

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Paul Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
To Husam:
Right click on the Gnome-do icon in your notification area and choose preferences. Go to appearance and then theme. If you want it to look like in the picture choose glass frame.

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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Flail Says:

I am really enjoying this setup, thanks for all the work.

That being said, I’m having two problems that I can’t seem to find a solution for, so any help would be really appreciated

1. The icon for weather shows up as a vertical rectangle.

2. Most of the lines that should be blank show up with a vertical rectangle (which I assume is the new line character)

I’ll keep messing with it, but any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Fisk Says:

Any way to use this with Google Reader instead of Gmail?

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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
yaka Says:

hi i got conky working but its not transparent, i can see my background image. but if any icons/folders are behind it i cant see them

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ashokgelal Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 10:18 am
@yaka: That’s normal

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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Chris Bookwood Says:

Thanks for the great conky scripts, It fits perfect on my desktop.

One thing though - I can’t seem to get the the Gmail and the Up&down and Upload/Download to work… I have tried everything I know, but still dead they seem.

I wonder if the gmail problem can have anything to do with the dot in my gmail username? (some.thing)

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ashokgelal Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 10:21 am
@Chris: Yes, email ids with ‘.’ often cause problem. You can try putting \ in front of ‘.’ . I don’t have any email address which has . in it so can’t say for sure. As soon as I find some solution, I will let you know. If you figured out how to do it, please share the solution here.

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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
firecode Says:

Seems great. Sadly on my machine conky launched itself in a terminal and doesn’t read the config file. But I never succeeded in installing anything on Linux so it’s probably my fault.

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ashokgelal Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 10:24 am
@firecode: There should be something horribly wrong. In situation like this, I try to start everything from start. I’ve written this tutorial in a way even a first-day Linux user can do it. I suggest you to go from start, downloading different files, putting them in correct places. It should work flawlessly believe me.

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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Damon Says:

I edited the .confyrc file to update the date at the bottom thus:

${font Radio Space:size=14}${time %A}
${font Radio Space:size=14}${time %d %B %Y}
${font Radio Space:size=55}${time %H:%M}

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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
justin Says:

hey, thanks for everyones help, i am wondering though how to make it smaller, of rather not as wide. its taking up 1/3 of the desktop. i have 15.4 screen with resolution at 1280×800. this seams to be the max i can make my resolution when i go to “screen resolution.” dont know if this has anythign to do with it.

also, the email is showing how many emails i have but i cant click it to take me to my email…peace

also, the weather doesnt seem to update. is there a way to make it update more quickly. srry for all the question, just wanna get this working top notch,

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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
mike Says:

I couldn’t get the gmail script to work since I have special characters in my password that it won’t allow.

My solution was to manually edit the pogodynka.sh file change
uname=’myusername’
password=’mypassword’
maxlen=3

I then changed the .conkyrc file so that the line that calls the gmail parser no longer references the username and password there.

${color F8DF58}${font FreeSans:size=16}@${font}${execpi 300 python ~/scripts/gmail_parser.py}

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mike Reply:
October 25th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I meant the gmail_parser.py file not the pogodynka.sh file

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Posted on October 25th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Chris Bookwood Says:

Now I got the gmail working by hardcoding the data into the gmail_parser.py file, but still no luck getting up/downspeed and upload/download working. They just still on 0…

Two minor thing… Why is there two CPU’s, and is the weathercast pretty bugger on your machines too? It seems to be only 1 time out of 3, that i shows the weather-’photo’.

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Posted on October 26th, 2008 at 1:25 am
zach Says:

When i run conky as a startup program, it overlaps all my other programs. Any help?

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Chris Bookwood Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Yeah - I have the same problem too!

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Chris Bookwood Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I found, that if you wait about 10 seconds (depending on your machine, but that worked for me) it will start up all nicely… What I did was, I created a shell-script which I threw the following code in, and then I run that on startup.

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 && conky;

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Posted on October 26th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Conky, monitor ligero para el Sistema « Ubuntu Life Says:

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Posted on October 27th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
danny Says:

hi,

a few problems on my end, firstly the conkyfonts.tar.gz file you linked isn’t hosted by mediafire any more for some reason, (all the fonts you list are free on the web tho!) so it took a little fiddling to get the fonts right.

if anyone is having trouble installing the fonts then create a fonts directory in your home dir and try this

cd fonts
sudo cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype

you might need to rename some of them depending on where you found them, check in the .conkyrc

fc-cache -fv (this will refresh all your fonts)

the other problem i have is that the weather just isn’t working at all. i created a weather file, put my location in the pogodynka.sh changed to celcius but all that shows up is C / C

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Posted on October 27th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
DW Says:

Man, I couldn’t get this working. I emailed the admin and they took a look at everything and walked me through what I was doing wrong.

Thanks a lot guys!

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Posted on October 27th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Bernie Says:

The conky fonts are no longer available. I get an error trying to download them. Can someone upload the fonts again?

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Posted on October 27th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
jher Says:

most of the missing fonts can be found by grepping “font” out of the .conkyrc and searching here:

http://www.dafont.com

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Posted on October 28th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Bernie Says:

Thanks, got it working. Oddly, mediafire decided the fonts can be downloaded again.

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Posted on October 28th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Cody Says:

When i launch it, it only comes up as a black terminal with white text, i went back and did it from scratch on my other computer with Ubuntu and it is still doing this, not sure why :/

Any help would well..help

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Canuck Reply:
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
If you are getting the black terminal make sure conkyrc is named .conkyrc

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Posted on October 30th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Ethan Says:

Hi there,i really want to bring this great effects to my Ubuntu,but i can’t download the scripts and font files from mediafile,could you do me a favor to upload these files to dropbox and send me a share invitation to uptownboy@gmail.com?many many thanks.

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Posted on November 1st, 2008 at 8:29 am
Cyril Dent Says:

Thanks for this great how-to! It’s simple and easily understandable. However it took me some time to find out why the weather condition icon does not show up on my desktop although the temperature was correct. There is no icon defined for foggy weather in conditions.sh I added a new line and used the capital D as icon for Fog.
The other issue was with the HDD temperature. Your screenshot is missing the temperature quantity (°C). When I used Vim to edit the .conkyrc file the quantity was showed correctly but by only grepping the line from the file I found out that the degree mark is not showed correctly. I had to copy/paste it to a text editor and then copy/paste it back to the rc file. After that the conky shows it correctly. ‘Hope it’s clear.

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Posted on November 1st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
NCharles Says:

I can’t get the gmail to work. I’ve checked the script loads of times and I only ever get @{expcpi} instead of the last 3 emails. Any idea what’s causing this?

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Posted on November 1st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Nicofff Says:

For those who have problems with the weather:

If you pasted the line to change to celcius, check if the ” ” and ‘ ‘ are the correct ones, that worked for me!

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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
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Posted on November 6th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
tormaser Says:

tank’s 4 the great post, conky it’s great, but i can’t get the wether stuff works fine it’s only show C/C no sun or cloud or any data, hope somebody can help me

in terminal i got this lines

Conky: desktop window (12000b4) is subwindow of root window (58)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (2400001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: `
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/sergio/scripts/gmail_parser.py”, line 47, in
readmail(f, int(maxlen)) # Let the feed be chewed by feedparser
File “/home/sergio/scripts/gmail_parser.py”, line 39, in readmail
print ‘ ${color2}%s’ % atom.entries[i].title
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xf3′ in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

i figure the problem is whit the character ` but i don’t know where find it… tanks 4 advance and sorry 4 my spelling

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Posted on November 7th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Purghi Says:

hello if you have problems with weather check the following:

first, its possible that you have invalid code in the pogodynka.sh file in line:

w3m -dump http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/“$kod”.html | grep -A21 “Current” | sed ’s/DEG/°/g’ > $plik

check whether you have correct ” and ‘ symbols at the appropriate places to make it look like the above line and not like
…
grep -A21 \u201cCurrent\u201d | sed \u2019s/DEG/°/g\u2019 > $plik

second, you might get no pictures because you have problems with conditions.sh file because of wrong upper/lower case.
for example, in line:

if echo “$cnd” | grep -E -i -q ‘partly cloudy’; then

it can help to change ‘partly cloudy’ to ‘Partly cloudy’.
the same applies to fair, sunny, cloudy, thunder, rain etc later in the file

hope this helps

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tormaser Reply:
November 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Purghi

tanks now conky it’s complete working on my lap, only got a little issue, i don’t know why some times the size of the bars (Battery and CPU’s) change some times bigger or smaller, if you or anybody know how to fix it… any way tanks again.

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Posted on November 8th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Erik Weibust Says:

Is there an easy way to start/stop conky? I find I start it, tweak my .conkyrc, then have to kill -9 the pid for conky, then repeat.

Erik

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elbeto Reply:
November 16th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Start: ALt+F2 Conky
Stop Alt+F2 killall conky

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danny Reply:
November 17th, 2008 at 11:48 am
run conky in the terminal when you are testing the configs, then you can either open a new terminal tab and either :~$ pkill conky OR ctrl-c and that also kills it.

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Posted on November 9th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Jordan Says:

Hey! I got everything up and running perfectly but was wondering if anyone had been successful modifying the Gmail parser to check GAFYD (Google Apps for Your Domain).

I tried changing the feed address to my custom one (http://mail.google.com/a/mydomain.com/feed/atom) in gmail_parser.py and changing my username and password in my .conkyrc but now the Gmail checker is just blank after the @ sign in Conky.

Any ideas?

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Posted on November 10th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
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Posted on November 11th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Spacenoodle Says:

Can we get a repost on the fonts file? I can’t get it working without that file.

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Spacenoodle Reply:
November 12th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Further to my last, file suddenly seems to work. Maybe it’s just some unreliable hosting.

I’m having trouble displaying HDD temp.

i check hddmonit.sh and i have tried cutting and pasting the text echo “$(nc localhost 7634 | cut -d’|’ -f4)”

i get the response

localhost [127.0.0.1] 7636 (?) : connection refused

I can get the hdd temp to display in the terminal by typing

sudo hddtemp /dev/sda3

what can i do to fix hddmonit.sh?

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Posted on November 11th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
azmizal Says:

Got problem to do it. Can someone show it through video such as you tube.
Thanks

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Posted on November 15th, 2008 at 9:45 am
stenbod Says:

If you change “https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom/” to “https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom/unread” in gmail_parser.py, you’ll also get unread messages within all gmail-labels.

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Posted on November 21st, 2008 at 5:25 am
acrididae Says:

Thanks for this howto.

Conky is not displaying my gmail count or my weather. I updated pogodynka.sh and conkyrc as instructed and I have python-feedparser installed.

I’m running Ubuntu 8.10.

Any ideas?

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acrididae Reply:
November 21st, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Disregard that last post. I had misnamed my scripts folder as .scripts

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Posted on November 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
George Says:

I have the a Intel Quadcore processor and set up my conky so I can see all 4 on the desktop, but have one problem: they all are showing 100% output. That isn’t right. Any ideas on how to correct this? Thanks, this is a great and cool tool!

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Posted on November 25th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Richard Says:

one annoying flaw with the weather is it does not show night time or a moon - when at night it still shows the sun

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Posted on November 26th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 at 12:23 am
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Sukrit Says:

Hi. i am using the mac4lin theme. i did all the above steps that you mentioned and then ran conky. All i got was a small black box displaying my system information and no changes to my theme.
What do i do ?

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Posted on December 9th, 2008 at 6:56 am
AnimateDeath Says:

This is an awesome write

Quick Tweaks

Gmail+Weather+Beauty right on your Ubuntu desktop

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