Ghost1227's Desktop Workshop

methuselah · 2009-07-21 20:56:09

Thank you for giving it a try. I wasn't able to get any results from the 'sed' above. Maybe I wrote it wrong in the conkyrc? I used the execi command to run your wget -q -O line above.

I'll let you mess around with it for a few days, and hopefully you get it working good. I would be stoked if I could just get the tides, water temp, and the regional forecast parts. (in fact, the water temp, tides, and regional forecast sections would cover all of the important info like wave size and swell direction). And if it could fit into my current desktop conky weather script, then that would be very cool (I could remove the Next Day forecast to make room for it). My current look: http://crimesaucer.deviantart.com/art/M … -130133411

I also had an idea of a creative design similar to your other desktops.

I was thinking if you were able to figure this out, then I could make a nice wallpaper of the coast that I'll be surfing. Then I could make a conky that would print the wave size for each spot along with a short description of the conditions. Then over on the side of the screen there could be a full column of weather/wind stats, tides, water temps, swell angle/direction/period, and the regional overview and forecast summary.

I have wanted conky to be able to do something like this for a while now, or at least a nice screenlet from Surfline.com.

Thanks again for the help.

Last edited by methuselah (2009-07-21 20:59:13)

brisbin33 · 2009-07-21 21:44:53

Ghost,

as respectfully as possible, i nitpick your bash fu:

| grep "WATER TEMP" | awk -F">" '{ print $2 }' |

==

| awk -F ">" '/WATER TEMP/ {print $2}'|

and

| sed -e 's|<br||' | sed -e 's|°||g'

==

| sed -e 's|<br||;s|°||g'

on a more helpful note, here is a little script i got from someone way back when and modified slightly.

it parses xml for weather info (for boston). it's python, but really simple (though i don't understand it much myself). thought maybe you can try to use some of it's tactics in this exercise? i dunno about you, but i find that parsing xml in a shell script absolutely _sucks_

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Ghost1227 · 2009-07-21 22:00:47

@brisbin33: Much obliged! that is a bit cleaner... as for your script, i'll take a look at it in a little bit, it just might do what he wants

methuselah · 2009-07-22 03:37:57

Ghost1227 wrote:

@brisbin33: Much obliged! that is a bit cleaner... as for your script, i'll take a look at it in a little bit, it just might do what he wants

brisbin33 wrote:

on a more helpful note, here is a little script i got from someone way back when and modified slightly.

Thanks to you both. I'm pretty sure that they only update the surf report a few time each day. I think they start with a 7:00 am dawn patrol, then an afternoon update, and an evening update to finish. So it would only need to pull info a few times each day. It would be nice if I could have a command that would update the info at certain times (like 7:00 AM, 12:00 PM, and 5:00 PM or whatever the actual times are?), rather than with the execi command using intervals of seconds to repeat the same info (like ${execi 3600 python......}

..... And if it's difficult to get the data from Surfline.com then maybe there is another place with marine report of tides, water temps, swell size and directions, and coastal conditions like fog or wind changes..... maybe even buoy reports from the open ocean.

Mr Green · 2009-07-22 18:02:24

http://lifehacker.com/5320440/the-eleme … ep-desktop

Nice.... that will stump him!

Ghost1227 · 2009-07-22 21:57:21

Based on the LiteStep desktop shown here, by request. It's not exact, but it's good enough for me.

Elemental can be downloaded here.

@MrGreen... nice avatar. thief

Mr Green · 2009-07-23 05:03:42

@Ghost1227 that is amazing.....the desktop! not my avatar lol.....did not steal borrowed

Ghost1227 · 2009-07-23 05:06:21

Thanks and bah.

Come on everyone! Is that all ya got???

Stythys · 2009-07-23 05:30:18

what are you talking about? is that all YOU got? still waiting on the update!!

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 92#p577292

Ghost1227 · 2009-07-23 07:04:23

You bring up a good point sir! I'm still no good with anime type stuff, but here's a little update for you.

InBloom can be downloaded here.

Stythys · 2009-07-23 07:28:17

yay!

Ghost1227 · 2009-07-23 16:50:03

Like that a bit better?

Acecero · 2009-07-23 18:01:36

Even though you're not good with anime type stuff, I was thinking about giving you an anime wallpaper to play with, is that ok with you?

Also how is my other desktop coming?

Mr Green · 2009-07-23 18:11:45

I was thinking of giving you my laptop

Ghost1227 · 2009-07-23 18:14:26

@acecero - You're always welcome to send me whatever you think will make a good theme. Thus far I've always found a way As for the other desktop, what exactly do you want done to it?

@MrGreen - I definitely wouldn't complain... I need a new laptop.

Acecero · 2009-07-23 20:11:43

Thanks, I'll be out on the look for a good one.

For the other desktop, it's fine the way it is. I thought you might have improved it with other ideas of your own.

Stythys · 2009-07-23 20:29:05

anime wallpaper! ah, do this one!

http://files.twilightlair.net/pictures/ … 0Sound.jpg

Ghost1227 · 2009-07-23 22:05:59

Something like this?

Comfort In Sound can be downloaded here.

Stythys · 2009-07-23 22:16:38

ah, pretty nice

maybe above the time or something you could fit in some mpd/connection stats

Acecero · 2009-07-23 22:52:44

Not only that was fast, that is really nice.

...I need to start finding a wallpaper right now!

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murderbymodem · 2009-07-23 22:59:00

Hey Ghost, here's those pictures I was telling you about on IRC. Hopefully you can make some nice themes around them.

1.) http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1986/wallpaperk.jpg (I was in the process of making a theme for this one, here's my progress: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8537 … hotzlc.jpg I was trying to make the graphs on the conky config the same color as the Sakura petals.)

2.) http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7913 … 869495.jpg (Will have to be resized for widescreen but it's huge so it shoulden't be too big of a problem)

Enjoy, I'm sure you'll do MUCH better than I did

Last edited by murderbymodem (2009-07-23 22:59:34)

Acecero · 2009-07-23 23:06:38

Alright I found some, pick your poison.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Ahadiel · 2009-07-23 23:20:56

My vote's for #5. I'm in a Miku mood after finishing Project Diva.

Acecero · 2009-07-23 23:42:07

You have that game too? It's awesome! I'm still playing it.

Btw, good choice.

Ahadiel · 2009-07-24 00:51:12

Acecero wrote:

You have that game too? It's awesome! I'm still playing it.
Btw, good choice.

Haha, thanks.

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