[SOLVED] Conky question: How can you pass Conky variables to scripts?

evan1026 · 12-29-2012, 10:55 AM

So basically, I'm trying to make a battery bar that's colored based on the battery percentage. I've got a python script that makes the colors perfectly:

Code:

import os, sys
import string

def calccolor(percentage):
        red = (100 - percentage) * 255 / 100
        green = percentage * 255 / 100
        print("${color %02x%02x00}") % (red, green)

if __name__ == "__main__":
        percentage = sys.argv[1]
        calccolor(int(percentage))

but I can't seem to figure out how to run it in Conky. Currently I have:

Code:

Battery: ${execpi 10 python ~/batcalc.py $battery_percent}$battery_bar$color

but that doesn't work since Conky doesn't parse the percentage. Any way I can make this work?

evan1026 · 12-29-2012, 06:52 PM

I figured it out but I'm gonna post in case anyone is googling something like this later or something like that. Now the conky line is

Code:

Battery: ${execpi 1 acpi -b | egrep -o "[0-9]+%" | xargs python ~/batcalc.py}$battery_percent% $battery_bar$color

and I changed the python script to

Code:

import os, sys
import string

def calccolor(percentage):
        red = (100 - percentage) * 255 / 100
        green = percentage * 255 / 100
        print("${color %02x%02x00}") % (red, green)

if __name__ == "__main__":
        percentage = sys.argv[1][0:-1]
        calccolor(int(percentage))