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Finally got it installed, pkg-config was not in the path. Guess that sorta helps.

There's a SlackBuild for Conky. It's for 12.2, so I don't know if it's OK for -current.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.2/system/conky/

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianL (Post 3604504)

There's a SlackBuild for Conky. It's for 12.2, so I don't know if it's OK for -current.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.2/system/conky/

yea, I saw that. But it would not compile either because pkg-config was not in the $PATH. Once I fixed that, I just compiled it from source and everything works great now. All I have to do now is waste time playing around with the .conkyrc file making it look all pretty and custom.

Thanks for the fast replies though!

No problems here with pkg-config on -current with conky 1.7.1.1

I would suggest doing an update via slackpkg to the latest - use upgrade-all and install-new. If you still get the same problem it has to to be a configuration problem with -current on your box.

request for .conkrc and screenshots

Since the interest in conky is here, would some of you using it be
willing to post a screenshot and .conkyrc of yours? At present I'm
using someone else's .conkyrc (edited), and it's much wider than my
preference.

I got the pseudo transparency working, but the image of my desktop
through conky is some pixels off from the background. When I get a
config of my own, and get that issue fixed, I'll post them. I'm
using conky-1.7.1.1 in Slackware64 -current (01 July 2009).

Here are a couple, 3 conkyrc's I use
( http://multidistro.com/tinycore-shots/tc-scrnshots.html )

here is pmagic conkyrc

Code:

# the list of variables has been removed from this file in favour

# of keeping the documentation more maintainable.

# Check http://conky.sf.net for an up-to-date-list.



# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background

background yes



# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel

#font 5x7

#font 6x10

font 7x13

#font 8x13

#font 9x15

#font *mintsmild.se*

#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*



# Use Xft?

use_xft no



# Xft font when Xft is enabled

xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=11



# Text alpha when using Xft

xftalpha 0.8



# Print everything to stdout?

# out_to_console no



# Print everything to console?

# out_to_console no



# Update interval in seconds

update_interval 5.0



# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.

# Set to zero to run forever.

total_run_times 0



#own_window_title Parted Magic - conky



# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)

own_window yes



# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override

own_window_type normal



# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?

own_window_transparent yes



# If own_window_transparent is set to no, you can set the background colour here

own_window_colour black



# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used

own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

#own_window_hints below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager



# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)

double_buffer yes



# Minimum size of text area

minimum_size 280 5



# Draw shades?

draw_shades yes



# Draw outlines?

draw_outline no



# Draw borders around text

draw_borders no



# Draw borders around graphs

draw_graph_borders yes



# Stippled borders?

stippled_borders 4



# border margins

border_margin 4



# border width

border_width 1



# Default colors and also border colors

default_color white

default_shade_color black

default_outline_color black



# Text alignment, other possible values are commented

#alignment top_left

alignment top_right

#alignment bottom_left

#alignment bottom_right

#alignment none



# Gap between borders of screen and text

# same thing as passing -x at command line

gap_x 15

gap_y 15



# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?

no_buffers yes



# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

uppercase no



# number of cpu samples to average

# set to 1 to disable averaging

cpu_avg_samples 2



# number of net samples to average

# set to 1 to disable averaging

net_avg_samples 2



# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT

override_utf8_locale no



# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.

use_spacer none



TEXT

${color goldenrod}Hostname: $nodename

${color goldenrod}Linux Kernel: $kernel

${color goldenrod}CPU Details:  $machine, $freq(MHz)

${color}CPU History:  ${color darkgreen}${cpugraph 30,0 0000ff 00ff00}

${color}CPU Usage:${color magenta2} $cpu% ${cpubar 11,0}



${color}RAM Usage:${color DeepSkyBlue1} $mem ($memperc%) ${membar 11,0}

${color}Available RAM:${color DeepSkyBlue1} $memmax



$color$stippled_hr

$alignc${color}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes

$alignc${color}(top 5 sorted by CPU usage)

${color goldenrod} NAME              PID    CPU%  MEM%

${color} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}

${color} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}

${color} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}

${color} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

${color} ${top name 5} ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}



$alignc${color}(top 5 sorted by MEM usage)

${color goldenrod} NAME              PID    CPU%  MEM%

${color} ${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}

${color} ${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}

${color} ${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}

${color} ${top_mem name 4} ${top_mem pid 4} ${top_mem cpu 4} ${top_mem mem 4}

${color} ${top_mem name 5} ${top_mem pid 5} ${top_mem cpu 5} ${top_mem mem 5}

$color$stippled_hr

$alignc${color}${time %A, %d %B %Y, %H:%M}

$alignc${color}System Uptime:${color DarkOrange1} $uptime

here is my simple tinycore conkyrc stolen from browserpuppy

Code:

background no

use_xft yes

xftfont Sans:size=8

xftalpha 1

update_interval 2

total_run_times 0

own_window yes

own_window_transparent no

own_window_type desktop

own_window_colour 660099

own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

double_buffer yes

#minimum_size 200 200

#maximum_width 200

draw_shades no

draw_outline no

draw_borders no

draw_graph_borders yes

default_color 888888

default_shade_color black

default_outline_color white

alignment top_left

gap_x 20

gap_y 10

no_buffers yes

uppercase no

cpu_avg_samples 2

override_utf8_locale no



TEXT

${font sans-serif:bold:size=12}${color FFFF00}TinyCore-2.1

${font sans-serif:bold:size=12}${color FFFF00}Black Dragon

${voffset 3}${font sans-serif:bold:size=18}${color FFFF00}${time %R}${font sans-serif:bold:size=11} - ${time %e %B %Y}

${voffset 5}${font sans-serif:bold:size=11}${color FFFF00}Free Space: ${fs_free /}

the browserpuppy49 conkyrc is smallest I have seen

Work in progress..........

http://sqdnguns.com/upload/01_20090711.png

Not happy with it.......yet!!

Code:

use_xft true

xftfont DejaVuSans:size=8

xftalpha 0.8

text_buffer_size 2048



update_interval 1



total_run_times 0



own_window yes

own_window_transparent no

own_window_type desktop

own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar



double_buffer yes



minimum_size 200 0



draw_shades no



draw_outline no



draw_borders yes



stippled_borders 0



border_margin 25



border_width 1



default_color ffffff

default_shade_color a9a9a9

default_outline_color a9a9a9

own_window_colour gray



alignment middle_right



gap_x 50

gap_y 0



no_buffers yes



uppercase no



cpu_avg_samples 2



net_avg_samples 2



override_utf8_locale yes



use_spacer none



TEXT

${alignc 65}${font Courier 10 Pitch:size=18}${execi 1 cat /etc/slackware-version}${font}$color



Changelog: ${alignr}${execi 1 lynx -dump ftp://slackware.oregonstate.edu/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.txt | head -1}



SYSTEM  ${hr 1}



Kernel: ${alignr}${kernel}

Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime_short}



Core 1:    ${cpu cpu1}% ${alignr}${freq_g cpu1} GHz  /  ${color ff3030}${execi 20 ~/scripts/temp1.sh} C$color

Core 2:    ${cpu cpu2}% ${alignr}${freq_g cpu2} GHz  /  ${color ff3030}${execi 20 ~/scripts/temp2.sh} C$color



GPU Temp: ${alignr}${color ff3030}${execi 20 nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp |grep Attribute |awk '{print $4}' |cut -c1-2} C$color



RAM:  ${alignr}$mem  /  ${alignr}$memmax

SWAP: ${alignr}$swap  /  ${alignr}$swapmax



Top 5 Processes                PID  CPU%  MEM%

${top name 1} ${alignr}${top pid 1}    ${top cpu 1}    ${top mem 1}

${top name 2} ${alignr}${top pid 2}    ${top cpu 2}    ${top mem 2}

${top name 3} ${alignr}${top pid 3}    ${top cpu 3}    ${top mem 3}

${top name 4} ${alignr}${top pid 4}    ${top cpu 4}    ${top mem 4}

${top name 5} ${alignr}${top pid 5}    ${top cpu 5}    ${top mem 5}



MOUNT / HDDs  ${hr 1}



/      ${alignr}${fs_used /}  /  ${alignr}${fs_size /}  /  ${fs_free_perc /}% Free



/home      ${alignr}${fs_used /home}  /  ${alignr}${fs_size /home}  /  ${fs_free_perc /home}% Free



/crap      ${alignr}${fs_used /crap}  /  ${alignr}${fs_size /crap}  /  ${fs_free_perc /crap}% Free



/storage  ${alignr}${fs_used /storage}  /  ${alignr}${fs_size /storage}  /  ${fs_free_perc /storage}% Free



/backups  ${alignr}${fs_used /backups}  /  ${alignr}${fs_size /backups}  /  ${fs_free_perc /backups}% Free



NETWORK  ${hr 1}



Up:    ${alignr}${upspeed eth0}

Total:  ${alignr}${totalup eth0}



Down:  ${alignr}${downspeed eth0}

Total:  ${alignr}${totaldown eth0}

${hr 1}



${time %H:%M:%S}${alignr}${time %A, %D}${font}



${alignc} ${exec whoami} @ $nodename${font}

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bruce Hill (Post 3604645)

How did you get psudo transparency working in KDE 4.2? I keep getting

feh: error while loading shared libraries: libImlib2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
sleep 1 && feh --bg center ~/13-slack2.png &
[2] 18530
[1] Exit 127 sleep 1 && feh --bg center ~/background.png

feh is installed, when I tried the command:

feh -bg-scale `dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface currentWallpaper 1`

I get:

bash: dcop: command not found
feh: error while loading shared libraries: libImlib2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

DCOP is not with KDE 4.2, instead it is dbus. So I tried to run the frist command mentioned as it is stated on the Conky website. They do not mention a dcop command in the string. But I don't know what this libImlib2.so.1 is. Where I can find it to download? I am assuming it should be located in /usr/local/lib but I don't have it there. Could it be I just need to put it there, then set the $PATH? Or is it more complex?

(seriously should not be this much trouble just to get transparency... why did I ever 'upgrade' to 4.2 when 3.5 was soooo perfect for me)

Since my Slackware64 -current box does not have feh, I use fbsetbg:

Code:

sleep 1 && fbsetbg ~/Libby-brown-hat.jpg &

which does give me pseudo transparency.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bruce Hill (Post 3605413)

Since my Slackware64 -current box does not have feh, I use fbsetbg:

Code:

sleep 1 && fbsetbg ~/Libby-brown-hat.jpg &

which does give me pseudo transparency.

YES!! that worked! It's not 100% transparent, but good enough for me! thanks a lot!