Comments on: Gmail+Weather+Beauty right on your Ubuntu desktop

By: Guilherme

Guilherme — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:08:01 +0000

Sorry, but I can't visualize my conky in on desktop. I t looks invisible. I did all that was told. How can I solve this problem. Can somebody help me?

By: Tanga

Tanga — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:02:27 +0000

It took me a while, but I finally got the battery indicator working.
First: apt-get installed acpi and acpi-tools.
Then change the battery line to:
Battery: ${execi 10 (acpi -b | awk)} ${battery_bar BAT1}

Your battery may be called something else, however. To find out run acpi -b in terminal, and it should tell you the number. If it's different to BAT1 then put that in instead.

Now to get the weather and gmail working.

By: Jardi

Jardi — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:58:27 +0000

I got the weather part of the script working, but I had to modify the pogodynka.sh script. I changed the following lines:
-This one:
w3m -dump "$kod" | grep -A26 "Current" | sed 's/DEG/°/g' > $plik

and this others:
temp=`tail -n1 $plik | awk '{print $2}'`
tempo=`tail -n1 $plik | awk '{print $4}'`

If you change those lines, it should work ok. It would be nice if somebody can comment that script in English for I don't understand Polish, you can read the python code but with comments in English it would be easier.

Cheers!

By: @hmv0000

@hmv0000 — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:12:53 +0000

Thank you! This was a big help!

By: Rik

Rik — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:17:03 +0000

never mind i got it working, all except gmail and weather

By: Rik

Rik — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:04:03 +0000

i folowed your directions to the letter and conky wont start…..this is my output

Conky: /home/rik/.conkyrc: 14: no such configuration: 'border_margin'
Conky: desktop window (300006e) is subwindow of root window (153)
Conky: window type – override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x4a00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
cat: /home/rik/weather: No such file or directory
Conky: can't open /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/rik/scripts/gmail_parser.py", line 46, in
f = auth() # Do auth and then get the feed
File "/home/rik/scripts/gmail_parser.py", line 29, in auth
f = opener.open(_URL)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 205, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 449, in open_https
return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 369, in http_error
result = method(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 663, in http_error_301
return self.http_error_302(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 632, in http_error_302
data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 659, in redirect_internal
return self.open(newurl)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 205, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 449, in open_https
return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 369, in http_error
result = method(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 694, in http_error_401
return getattr(self,name)(url, realm)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 776, in retry_https_basic_auth
return self.open(newurl)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 205, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 449, in open_https
return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 369, in http_error
result = method(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 681, in http_error_401
errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 379, in http_error_default
raise IOError, ('http error', errcode, errmsg, headers)
IOError: ('http error', 401, 'Unauthorized', )
what did i do wrong?

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:12:09 +0000

make sure you have w3m installed. sudo apt-get install w3m

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:21:08 +0000

Wow.. thanks man.. for the exciting tutorial..

By: soudevidro

soudevidro — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:16:32 +0000

Guys, for the weather to work you just need to put the Yahoo weather link in the script.

Ex. Yahoo link for Bucharest weather in Celsius is :
http://weather.yahoo.com/romania/bucuresti/buchar…

The line that gets the page in the script is :

w3m -dump http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/"$kod&quot… | grep -A21 "Current" | sed 's/DEG/°/g' > $plik

So I just modified that line in the script like this :

w3m -dump http:/ /http://weather.yahoo.com/romania/bucuresti/bucharest-868274/?unit=c | grep -A21 "Current" | sed 's/DEG/°/g' > $plik

Hope this helps

By: Heiji Hattori

Heiji Hattori — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:11:29 +0000

Nice. . .thanks for tutorial. . .
My boring desktop look more cool