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Offline linus72

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Where is .conkyrc?
« on: July 09, 2009, 11:10:39 AM »
I installed conky in tc 2.1, but can't find .conkyrc; shouldn't it be in home/tc?
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Offline danielibarnes

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Re: Where is .conkyrc?
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2009, 12:51:48 PM »
You have to make your own using the /etc/conky/conky.conf example.

I created an extension I call "myconky.tce" that includes my custom /home/tc/.conkyrc file and a /usr/local/tce.installed/myconky script that contains only "conky -d -q". I also have a myconky.tce.dep which specifies conky.tczl as a dependency, so when I boot up it pops up properly configured without having to use the backup/restore mechanism of mydata.tgz.


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Re: Where is .conkyrc?
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2009, 12:54:25 PM »
Seems the 2.x conky extension doesn't include an example config file.
Grab a base config file from:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
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Re: Where is .conkyrc?
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2009, 02:57:25 PM »
Much thanks to both of you!:)

Now, is .conkyrc as easy to edit as .jwmtheme, etc?
hope so.

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Re: Where is .conkyrc?
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2009, 03:04:53 PM »
Oh, how do I start conky automatically at desktop load?
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Re: Where is .conkyrc?
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2009, 01:13:50 AM »
Add the command to .xsession before any wait/exec lines (it should also probably be backgrounded by appending &)

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Re: Where is .conkyrc?
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2009, 08:20:51 AM »
So...do you mean like this or what?

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/usr/bin/Xvesa -br -screen 1024x768x32 -shadow -mouse /dev/input/mice,5 -nolisten tcp -I 2>&1 > /dev/null &
$ /usr/local/bin/conky &
waitforX
export ICONS=`cat /etc/sysconfig/icons`
export DESKTOP=`cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop`
"$DESKTOP" 2>/tmp/wm_errors &
export WM_PID=$!
[ -x ./.setbackground ] && ./.setbackground
[ -x ./.mouse_config ] && ./.mouse_config &
wait $WM_PID

I have 0 programming experience, so have no idea how to write it out. :-\
thanks

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Re: Where is .conkyrc?
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2009, 09:15:39 AM »
Without the $ in the beginning, and it should go after waitforX
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Re: Where is .conkyrc?
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2009, 09:42:55 AM »
 ;DThanks Curaga
that works great!


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Re: Where is .conkyrc?
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2009, 11:10:20 PM »
Is there a way to set the conky window to be the topmost window/layer upon boot?