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I really wouldn't know but from the top of my head, i remember how conky bragged about my config being "deprecated" and I eventually switched to the new style.
You can see my config a few posts above - if it is worth the hassle - I really wouldn't know.
But i think the man page said something about new features to justify the new syntax?
I really wouldn't know but from the top of my head, i remember how conky bragged about my config being "deprecated" and I eventually switched to the new style.
You can see my config a few posts above - if it is worth the hassle - I really wouldn't know.
But i think the man page said something about new features to justify the new syntax?
Ah right, I didnt know that! Thanks!
Ill give it a try at some point to rewrite it to the new config
this is an old screenshot from 2008, when I was preparing the figures for my masters thesis. I used Dropline GNOME and not much has changed in my desktop layout since. I even use the same wallpaper.
this is an old screenshot from 2008, when I was preparing the figures for my masters thesis. I used Dropline GNOME and not much has changed in my desktop layout since. I even use the same wallpaper.
Does that mean you are now running Mate, or just something else with a similar layout?
Note that wmalauncher is an application launcher dockapp that I developed (on Slackware) recently because I was disappointed by all of existing launchers (that fit in the slit) and I didn't want to use things like plank or cairo-dock. If you want to try wmalauncher, you'll find it here. I'm about to submit a slackbuid for it (at slackbuilds.org obviously), but it is really easy to build it and there's no need to install it to test it. Feedback on wmalauncher are welcome.
Added support of colors gradients to wmalauncher to fit better with windowmaker :
A slackbuild for wmalauncher is available at slackbuilds.org here. The latest revision of this slackbuild has been submitted but is not yet available. To build the new version with the old slackbuild, download the source tarball at sourceforge.net and pass VERSION=2018.1002 to the (old) slackbuild.
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Started experimenting with conky. It's idle experimentation. There's a little way to go, but it provides some useful at-a-glance system info. I'm not really a fan of the GUI manager.
Started experimenting with conky. It's idle experimentation. There's a little way to go, but it provides some useful at-a-glance system info. I'm not really a fan of the GUI manager.
Conky's cool, but I always felt the panel was a much better place to display system info since it's not covered by windows. Granted, with Conky you have much more space to display whatever you want.
Conky's cool, but I always felt the panel was a much better place to display system info since it's not covered by windows. Granted, with Conky you have much more space to display whatever you want.
I am a metering addict. I don't think I have ever run any system that didn't sport some sort of dock for deep operational data. On Linux I suppose i should've learned more about STDOUT and STDIN but I relied on apps like GKrellm and now Conky. I think your comment is well-founded and is similar to what I've been trying to find out for Conky but your's takes it even one step further. I've been looking around for someway to create a mouseover focus, where Conky is out of focus or low contrast normally but as soon as you need it and mouseover it would rise to the occasion. A taskbar/panel slot that would take up almost no space but respond to mouseover would be just fantastic IMHO. Failing that some behavior like Yakuake where a hot key would drop it down would be decent enough. Any ideas how? Anyone?
I am a metering addict. I don't think I have ever run any system that didn't sport some sort of dock for deep operational data. On Linux I suppose i should've learned more about STDOUT and STDIN but I relied on apps like GKrellm and now Conky. I think your comment is well-founded and is similar to what I've been trying to find out for Conky but your's takes it even one step further. I've been looking around for someway to create a mouseover focus, where Conky is out of focus or low contrast normally but as soon as you need it and mouseover it would rise to the occasion. A taskbar/panel slot that would take up almost no space but respond to mouseover would be just fantastic IMHO. Failing that some behavior like Yakuake where a hot key would drop it down would be decent enough. Any ideas how? Anyone?
One option would be with tint2. You can use executors to run scripts every x seconds and display the output in the panel. You can also define tooltips to display extra information when you hover the mouse over it. This is a separate panel though, which would either replace your existing panel or be displayed in addition to it.
Running Slack 14.2 with Enlightenment (e16) with the "Dark Alloy" theme that was originally featured on Evil Entity by default. Always liked that theme. Not using the included backgrounds, though.
I've long favored Enlightenment, even if Slack doesn't come with it on the install disks. Getting it is NBD, and you can easily write your own .xinitrc to run it on start up.
Conky's cool, but I always felt the panel was a much better place to display system info since it's not covered by windows. Granted, with Conky you have much more space to display whatever you want.
I'm going to have to agree with you on this now [I did say it was an experiment after all]. Unlike enorbet, I'm not a metering addict. I find the panel to be the place to display the most important info, which is only CPU usage and RAM. That's about it. Hell, on my desktop I don't even need to display RAM since even though it has 'only' 5GB of RAM it also has 5GB of swap, I never go over. Conky is good for 'showing off' one's desktop, but even though there are many who I'm sure love checking out all the numbers, for me it just gets in the way.
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