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Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:42 am
by wuxmedia
naughty naughty nooby :) looks like you're having fun !
Why has the conky got those big seemingly random letters on it?

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 4:38 am
by noo_b_nomnoms
I have no idea, lols! I just liked the fact that it was transparent and slim (not taking too much space).
I still haven't figured out what the device name for my wifi is, either- the reason the network and weather don't work :(
I've tried Wlan0, Eth0, Wlan1, Eth1, but no luck so far. It will happen, though, lols!
Another thing about that conky- It turned my Lenovo T500 into a HP Pavillion!
I'll figure it out, or just go conky-less, lols!
It was just an eye candy idea, anyway :))

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:06 am
by wuxmedia
sure.

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ip a 
should give you a list of network interfaces - although if the network doesn't work...

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:04 am
by noo_b_nomnoms
I got it working :) What a name, though: wlp3s0
That's a mouthful, lols!
The weather is out, It required installing and configuring conkyForecast from github, in addition to registering with weather.com.
I found that the xfce4 panel has it's own nice little weather applet, with only a handful of libs to add :)
but, ol' noo_b has struck again with the old ~/.Xresources problems (will I ever learn). I can't get it to load- it keeps going to the backup- but I can't find the error. I have actually been looking around online for a nice, new, shiny one,

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Copying colorbar to /home/chuck/.Xresources_colors
xrdb: colon missing on line 22, ignoring line
chuck@hello:~ $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
xrdb: colon missing on line 22, ignoring line
This is what happens when I run dkeger. Now I have looked at line 22 in my .Xresources, my .xinitrc, and my .Xresources_colors, and I can't find a missing colon anywhere on line 22 on any of them, smh!
I looked it up online, and apparently xrdb does this with upgrades and such, but I don't remember any upgrades involving xrdb,
I'm sure there is only a syntax error with my .Xresources or my .xinitrc, so I keep going back and searching them for something, but I just don't see it.
I think I'm gona take a day to clear my head and look at them again.
Sometimes that works.
screenshot_20171110_210059.png

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 10:11 pm
by noo_b_nomnoms
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Spectrwm with machinebacon's spectrwm_solarized.conf
compton transparency
guitar_debian_yui.jpg search for the wallpaper :)

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 2:48 am
by noo_b_nomnoms
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AND IT IS DONE! lols.....
Here is noobdesk, running pekwm with compton, a conky, xfce4-panel with a volumeicon and a nifty little weather widget :)
The background came with Cardboard- the bbq spin on which this was built!
Thank you, again @machinebacon for bbqlogin,start-wm, and all the other scripts and advice you shared!

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 1:35 pm
by wuxmedia
it's good isn't it. :) still not sure about the conky :D

oh yeah pastebin your config, if you like - or at least the important lines

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:28 am
by noo_b_nomnoms
I'm not sure where to go to do that, but I could just put my noobdesk-start(pekwm) here....
I still have to get lxappearance to start and run in the background (what I'm ddg'g tonight), but as soon as that gets worked in properly it will be good to go!
Yeah, the conky, lols....with that background the transparency was no good, so I had to pick a background color quickly to "kind of" match what was going on around it. I will probably be searching around for a closer color match in the very near future. I think I tried to lessen the transparency first, but to tell you the truth I was so tired from trying to get my head extracted from my arse that night that I might just have said, "Enough!" and took the easier route, lols!

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:32 am
by wuxmedia
Maybe get rid of those weird letters - it's freaking me out a bit.

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:34 am
by noo_b_nomnoms
Right? Lols! I keep trying to decipher what op was trying to say over there, lols! That will be the very next thing on my list!

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:26 am
by noo_b_nomnoms
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Conky fixed, although the text seems a little faint. Still the color is a bit less dramatic, lols
Here's the config:

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# .conkyrc by fabsh <[email protected]>
# Based on ideas and code from the CunchBang Linux forums at http://crunchbanglinux.org
# v. 1.0

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 4

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

own_window yes
own_window_transparent no
#own_window own_window_type desktop
#own_window_type normal #use this if you want a nice shadow to appear around conky

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 180 0
#maximum_width 200

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 5

# border width
border_width 2

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color black
#default_shade_color black
#default_outline_color black
own_window_colour 660000

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 12
gap_y 8

# 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 yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none

TEXT
SYSTEM ${hr 2}
${alignc 24}${font Arial Black:size=18}${nodename}${font}
${alignc -8}Lenovo T500
${voffset 2}${font Arial Black:style=Bold:size=14}#!${font} CrunchBang Linux ${alignr}08.10.01
${font OpenLogos:size=16}${font} Kernel: ${alignr}${kernel}
${font StyleBats:size=16}${font} CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu1 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}${font} CPU2: ${cpu cpu2}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu2 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}${font} RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}${font} SWAP: $swapperc% ${alignr}${swapbar 8,60}
${font Webdings:size=16}${font} Battery: ${battery_percent BAT0}% ${alignr}${battery_bar 8,60 BAT0}
${font StyleBats:size=16}${font} Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}

DATE ${hr 2}
${alignc 19}${font Arial Black:size=18}${time %H:%M}${font}
${voffset 2}${alignc}${time %A, %d %B %Y}

NETWORK ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlp3s0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font} Up: ${upspeed eth1}${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 8,60 black black}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font} Down: ${downspeed eth1}${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth1 8,60 black black}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font} Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}${font} Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth1}
${endif}

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:39 pm
by wuxmedia
Cool.

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:48 pm
by ivanovnegro
Remove that conky like all grillers do! :D

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 7:01 am
by noo_b_nomnoms
^I do believe you're right, Ivanovnegro, lols! It really doesn't serve a purpose, tbh.
New scrot coming soon :)

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2017 10:13 am
by wuxmedia
Yeah, didn't want to say it outright, y'know we've all played with conky at one time thought it was cool, then maybe realised it spent more time being covered up and using resources than actually being useful as a system monitor, I mean you don't look at the engine gauges all the time on your lorry do yah? maybe on starting and if it feels a bit funny.
Minister of truth! Preach!

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:45 pm
by ivanovnegro
htop ftw! :) Or something similar and you can even have it open the whole time in your terminal with the nice Xresources colors we share here.

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:13 pm
by wuxmedia
just load, if load is high something is up

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 12:59 am
by franksinistra
once you eliminate all the bells and whistles, the few stats i think you really need are: battery, and load.

To display load, i usually just do it like

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ps --no-header -eo pcpu,comm,pid | sort -nr | sed 5q


display top 5 processes, alias it to something.

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 3:46 am
by noo_b_nomnoms
Thanks, franksinistra! And, Happy Birthday!

Re: noo_b_nomnoms- scrots

Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 9:15 am
by wuxmedia
^^ that's quite nice, i'm more 'w' kinda guy :) or even the old fav:

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cat /proc/loadavg