HTC-Like Clock / Weather Conky Configuration

Conky-HTC is a really cool Conky configuration inspired by the HTC weather / clock widget. It displays nice weather icons along with a 7-day weather forecast which can be configured to use either metric or imperial units.

Setting up Conky-HTC is not hard, but it requires quite a few steps and because some of them weren't specified in the Conky-HTC readme, here is everything you need to do to get it working:

1. Install Conky:

sudo apt-get install conky

2. To be able to use Conky-HTC, you'll also need Conky Forecast which you can download below:

.deb | .tar.gz

3. Download Conky-HTC and extract it. In the newly extracted folder, press CTRL + H to be able to see all hidden files and copy all hidden files and folders (.fonts, .images, .conkyForecast.config, .conkyrc, .conky_start and .vreme.template) to your home directory. Make sure you've copied all these files!

4. Now we need to configure Conky-HTC:

a) Run the following command in a terminal:

gedit ~/.conkyForecast.config

And if you don't want to use "PT-br" as the language, replace it with "en".

In the same file you can change the date format as well as the unit (metric by default). To change from metric to imperial, at the end of the last line, where it says "unit=m", replace "m" with "i".

Please note that there's no need to change the XOAP parameters in from this file - just leave them as they are.

Now you can save the file.



b) Configuring the weather: visit http://www.weather.com and search for your location ("country, city"). After visiting your location page, your area code should be displayed ad the end of the URL. Here's an example:

http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Bucharest+Romania+ROXX0003

Copy the code (ROXX0003 in my example above - but make sure you use your code). Now run the following command in a terminal:

gedit ~/.conkyrc

And replace all "BRXX0232" occurrences with your area code (you can select "Replace" in Gedit and replace all with a click) which you've copied in the step above.

- Conky HTC is a bit too close to the top panel, so to move it a bit, in the same .conkyrc file, replace "gap_y 10" with "gap_y 40".

- And finally, in the same file there's also a small bug for those who want to use Conky HTC in English: on line 52, there is some code that looks like this: "${time %e} de ${time %B} de ${time %G}" - remove both "de" words to fix it.

Now you can save the file.


5. Now you can start Conky by running the following command:

conky

6. To add Conky HTC to startup, open "Startup Applications", click "Add", under "Name" enter "Conky HTC" and for the command, select "Browse", hit CTRL + H to see hidden files and select the ".conky_start.sh" file from your home directory.

Download Conky-HTC


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"Conky Lunatico Rings" Displays System Info On Your Desktop In The Form Of Gauges

Conky Lunatico Rings is a really nice Conky configuration based on Conky Orange which displays rings for the CPU, memory, disk and network usage, in the form of gauges.

You can download Conky Lunatico Rings from HERE.


Because there were some spacing issues on my system, I've tweaked the configuration a bit so it looks like this:

(Using the original configuration, it looks like this on my system)

But maybe the original Conky Lunatico Rings works better on your computer (it's most probably related to the font configuration) so try the original firstly. If you want my tweaked version, you can get it from HERE. 

Because the wireless ring is useless for me, I've removed it - so if you don't want the wireless part and don't know how to do it, you can download my modified Conky Lunatico Rings without wireless from HERE. Here's a screenshot with this config:

But you can of course tweak it some more by yourself, it's really not that difficult.

Usage

Firstly, install Conky. In Ubuntu, use the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install conky

To use Conky Lunatico Rings, you'll need to install the Ubuntu font - this is already available on your system if you use Ubuntu 10.10+ or you can manually download it from font.ubuntu.com.

Then, download Conky Lunatico Rings (links above), extract the downloaded archive, create a folder called ".conky" in your home directory and move the "conky_lunatico.lua" and "conkyrc_lunatico" files into this folder.

And finally, run it using the following command:

conky -c ~/.conky/conkyrc_lunatico

To add Conky Lunatico Rings to startup, open Startup Applications, under "Name" enter "conky" and under "Command", enter this:

conky -p 50 -c /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.conky/conkyrc_lunatico

Where "YOUR_USERNAME" is yes, your username :) This will delay the Conky startup which is required for it to function properly.


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