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#1 2008-03-10 20:58:43

tony5429
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Conky [SOLVED]

I've used Conky in the past and really liked it but since then I've fallen in love with KDE's slideshow-mode wallpaper and because I have many different wallpapers KDE chooses from each hour, I cannot choose one colour for the conky text which will show well on every background. Anyone know of a way to either auto-contrast the conky text (so each pixel, or letter, of text will check the pixel, or area, of wallpaper behind it to see what colour it should be) or set it up to remember a colour for each of my wallpapers and change accordingly when the wallpaper does?

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#2 2008-03-10 21:18:25

xdeusx
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Re: Conky [SOLVED]

You could make conky look like a bar and then set a non-transparent background.
This way it won't look too bad and you wouldnt have to set different font colors.

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#3 2008-03-10 21:19:34

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Re: Conky [SOLVED]

These options should help:

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders yes

# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_borders yes

If you got say, black borders and white text it should be visible on all backgrounds I believe.


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#4 2008-03-11 00:48:13

tony5429
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Re: Conky [SOLVED]

Thanks! I've got black shadows on my white text and it seems to be working well! One other question... I am trying to get it to show my current Amarok track but it's not showing anything. Here is the line in my conkyrc:

${if_running amarokapp}${color slate grey}amarok: ${color }${execi 50 ~/.conky/amarok title}$endif

Do I have to install something in Amarok for it to work?

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#5 2008-03-11 20:37:34

tony5429
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Re: Conky [SOLVED]

Okay;I figured it out after a lot of googling. I just needed to put a script in ~/.conky/

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