Bar-text-bar (en)

From Conky PitStop

(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
(Step 2)
(Step 3)
Line 55: Line 55:
  ${hr}
  ${hr}
  ${goto 93}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color2}Conky${color}${font}
  ${goto 93}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color2}Conky${color}${font}
-
  ${voffset -25}${cpubar cpu3 1,70}${alignr 2}${cpubar cpu4 1,70}
+
  ${voffset -25}${membar 1,70}${alignr 2}${membar 1,70}
  ${hr}
  ${hr}

Revision as of 17:50, 26 April 2014

bar-text-bar

 Language   English   Français   


WARNING: If you are using conky v1.8+ this may not work!
It works with #! Statler - Conky v1.8.0 Debian: Squeeze

OK so someone asked if it was possible to have:

-- text here --

in conky. Where the was a solid line similar to the ${hr} command.

People started by saying, “No, not possible.” I thought about it for a bit and said to myself, “Yea I can do that!”. With another trick in conky that I have already showed you in "Bars with text inside".

So I set out and experimented and came up with the solution.

Step 1

Text-here-1.png

Default text for this conky is: font Zekton:size=15. I’m actually using my “conkyemail” which is alignment tm so that is where the width comes from.

You have a title you want to use: System, Temperatures, Music, Weather, whatever. You used ${alignc} or a ${goto xx} command to get it where you want it. We’ll use CONKY for this example with the woodbadge font, as seen to the left.

${hr}
${goto 95}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color2}Conky${color}${font}
${hr}

Step 2

Text-here-2.png

Now you want to “spruce” it up a bit, by adding lines before and after it. It’s easy with the same method used in "Bars with text" by using ${membar}

Now we need to add the code for those “lines” to appear. using the ${membar} command. You’ll need two of them:

${hr}
${goto 93}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color2}Conky${color}${font}
${membar 1,70}${alignr 2}${membar 1,70}
${hr}

Step 3

Text-here-3.png

Set the “height” to 1 to create the “bar” and 70 for the length. Yours will vary (40, 60 100) depending of the width of your conky display, the text you use and the font. Seems like “spacing” is everywhere in conky. :) I also use (always) ${alignr 2) to bring the output 2 pixels back from the right edge. If it’s a calculated output that changes values it can cause flickering, if it’s “on the edge” and nobody likes a flickering conky, well, nobody I know.

OK, there’s the bars, now to add ${voffset -xx}, negative xx to move up, until it’s right where you want it.

${hr}
${goto 93}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color2}Conky${color}${font}
${voffset -25}${membar 1,70}${alignr 2}${membar 1,70}
${hr}

See, just like I said, “I can do that.” (I was using a conky version pre v1.8) Now lets go a bit further. Personalize it a bit.

Step 4

Text-here-4.png

I chose yellow, to match close to the colour of CONKY. “NOT close.” you say. AHHH, but I’m not finished. We are going to “outline” those lines with RED

To do that copy the line you have producing the “lines” and change the color to “red”, and a ${voffset} to -0 for the moment and change the CPU numbers, I’m using 5 & 6.

${hr}
${goto 93}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color2}Conky${color}${font}
${color yellow}${voffset -25}${cpubar cpu3 1,70}${alignr 2}${cpubar cpu4 1,70}${color}
${color red}${voffset -0}${cpubar cpu5 1,70}${alignr 2}${cpubar cpu6 1,70}${color}
${hr}

Step 5

Text-here-5.png

If you’ve done everything right it should look like the image in the left. Now we have to give RED lines height to outline the YELLOW lines. So change the height to: 4. If you think about it, the top of the CPUBAR is 1 and the bottom is 2, so to have something “around” it you need 2 empty spaces between the top and bottom and x-2=2 is 4-2=2. Simple math.

${hr}
${goto 93}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color2}Conky${color}${font}
${color yellow}${voffset -25}${cpubar cpu3 1,70}${alignr 2}${cpubar cpu4 1,70}${color}
${color red}${voffset -0}${cpubar cpu5 4,70}${alignr 2}${cpubar cpu6 4,70}${color}
${hr}

Step 6

It’s time to play with that ${voffset -0} value, your will vary obviously, mine comes it at ${voffset -27}

${hr}
${goto 93}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color2}Conky${color}${font}
${color yellow}${voffset -25}${cpubar cpu3 1,70}${alignr 2}${cpubar cpu4 1,70}${color}
${color red}${voffset -27}${cpubar cpu5 4,70}${alignr 2}${cpubar cpu6 4,70}${color}
${hr}
Text-here-6.png

And that final code produces the broken ${hr} effect that the user asked about.

Something conky, earlier than v1.8+, can --not-- do!

Happy conkying Bruce

WARNING: If you are using conky v1.8+ this may not work!

Step 7

Well, I assume that it depends on the OS used and maybe what is compiled into Conky because this works on my CrunchBang 10 Statler (based on Debian) with conky v1.8.0

Text-here-7.png

Here is my section after-TEXT:

TEXT
${goto 80}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color5}Sector11${color}${font}
${voffset -23}${cpubar cpu2 5,70}${goto 210}${cpubar cpu2 5,70}
${voffset -17}${goto 2}${color9}${cpubar cpu2 1,66}${goto 212}${cpubar cpu2 1,66}${color}

or the full code, if you want it :

# To use #! in a conky use: ${exec echo '#!'}
background no
own_window yes
own_window_type override #normal
own_window_transparent yes #yes
own_window_hints skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_title test
use_xft yes
#xftfont terminus:bold:size=8
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10
xftalpha 1.0 #0.2
override_utf8_locale yes
update_interval 5
total_run_times 0
double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
use_spacer none
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
uppercase no
imlib_cache_size 0 
 
# Colors
default_color DCDCDC
color0 FFD700
color1 FFA07A
color2 FF8C00
color3 7FFF00
color4 778899
color5 FFDEAD
color6 00BFFF
color7 48D1CC
color8 FFFF00
color9 FF0000 
 
text_buffer_size 256 # 256 is the minimum
short_units yes
pad_percents 2
 
#maximum_width 1280
#minimum_size 500 110 # width, height
alignment tl
gap_x 20 # left-right
gap_y 20 # up-down
border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0 
 
TEXT
${goto 80}${font woodbadge:size=20}${color5}Sector11${color}${font}
${voffset -23}${cpubar cpu2 5,70}${goto 210}${cpubar cpu2 5,70}
${voffset -17}${goto 2}${color9}${cpubar cpu2 1,66}${goto 212}${cpubar cpu2 1,66}${color}
Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
Navigation
English
Français
Toolbox