The i3 thread

fadz · 2011-05-13 09:13:55

Hi Nikki,
can u please reupload your icon pack ?
It seems to be deleted.
And can u please upload your Weechat notification Script ?
That would be very nice.

Thanks

Last edited by fadz (2011-05-13 09:50:35)

blueblob · 2011-05-13 20:03:37

I don't know for sure, but it looks like nikki's icons are available as sm4tik-icons at:

http://dzen.geekmode.org/dwiki/doku.php … icon-packs

and from the aur

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29329

Inxsible · 2011-05-14 19:01:39

sm4tik's are not colored. See the Arch icon is blue in nikki's screenshot. He can probably throw some light on it.

blueblob · 2011-05-16 14:48:38

I'm using the Thayer icons from the same link, and they are not colorized by default either, but you can color them in dzen with the ^fg(color) command.

TEXT
^fg(green)${fs_free /}^fg(red)|^fg(green)^i(/home/blueblob/downloads/icons/net-wired.xbm)${addr eth0}^fg(red)|^fg(green)^i(/home/blueblob/downloads/icons/net-wifi.xbm)${addr wlan0}@${wireless_essid wlan0}^fg(red)|^fg(green)W:^fg(white)${execi 3600 conkyForecast --location=USWI0455 --datatype=HT -i} ${execi 3600 conkyForecast --location=USWI0455 --datatype=CC -i}^fg(red)|^fg(green)^i(/home/blueblob/downloads/icons/temp.xbm)${hwmon temp 1}^fg(red)|^fg(green)^i(/home/blueblob/downloads/icons/load.xbm)${loadavg 2}^fg(red)|^fg(green)^i(/home/blueblob/downloads/icons/mem.xbm)${memfree}^fg(red)|^fg(green)^i(/home/blueblob/downloads/icons/mpd.xbm)${execi 2 /home/blueblob/scripts/conkycmus.sh}^fg(red)|^fg(green)${time %a %m/%d/%Y %I:%M}

Inxsible · 2011-05-16 14:54:12

Thanks. No wonder. I was trying to use it in regular conky instead of passing it to dzen and and setting the color didn't work. I will try it out with dzen tonight.

Inxsible · 2011-05-19 03:35:15

I set up my conky and dzen the way I wanted, however, my conky text keeps flashing on the desktop every few seconds. How do I turn this thing off?

Here's my conky config :

out_to_console yes
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
 
TEXT
^fg(blue)^i(/home/inxs/.icons/xbm/arch_10x10.xbm)^i(/home/inxs/.icons/xbm/pacman.xbm): ^fg(skyblue)${execi 7200 perl ~/scripts/pacman/arch_update.pl} ^fg()| \
^fg(skyblue)^i(/home/inxs/.icons/xbm/vol-hi.xbm):^fg(orange)${mixer}% ^fg()| \
^fg(skyblue) ${time %a %d %b %Y %R:%S} ^fg()| \
^fg(darkgreen)Weather: ${texeci 1800 ~/scripts/weather/weather.sh}

and here's the line in my i3 config which calls conky:

exec conky -c ~/.config/conky/.conkyrc | dzen2 -h 18 -w 750 -ta r -x 1150 -y 1032 -fn '123-9' -bg '#000000' &

blueblob · 2011-05-22 15:40:13

I'm not guaranteeing it will work, but you can try out_to_x no

I modified mine from last time and I have a few variables I probably don't need from the way I was doing it before. instead of pasting my text it's in the screenshot.

btw, apparently darkbrown is red

before i run mine I have to run fc-cache -fv to get the conkyweather font to load and I'm having problems with my wireless not connecting when conky starts.

P.S. that really is my router name...

I'm thinking about using gdbar instead of numbers for free ram and load.

Last edited by blueblob (2011-05-22 15:41:36)

Inxsible · 2011-05-22 17:13:49

bluebob, would you mind uploading the conky weather fonts somewhere? and manybe a link to the conkyforecast script as well. I currently use a different script.

blueblob · 2011-05-22 18:26:46

I installed the conkyforecast package from the AUR at:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38642

it's "out of date" but it's what I used.

It installs the fonts to /usr/share/font/truetype/conkyforecast

If you want just the font, it think it's the same as

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36948

In order to use the font you need to compile dzen2 with xft (or pick one of the packages from the AUR that already did).

Inxsible · 2011-05-23 00:00:01

Thanks bluebob. I tried using the ttf-weather font. But I don't get the nice clouds etc. although the font of the letters is definitely different than the rest of the conky. Probably because I am still using the old weather script and it works only with the script that you linked to. I will try that as well and see how it goes.

Trying out_to_x no, removes conky completely and I don't see it at all. So I guess it must be a combination of variables that I need to set/unset in order to remove the flashing of my conky script on the screen

stlarch · 2011-05-23 01:23:33

Inxsible wrote:

I set up my conky and dzen the way I wanted, however, my conky text keeps flashing on the desktop every few seconds. How do I turn this thing off?

If you mean the flickering, did you try?

double_buffer yes

Inxsible · 2011-05-23 02:13:03

nope ... not the flickering...but my entire config file flashes on the screen. But I will still try out double buffer with out_to_x and see if the combination works

Inxsible · 2011-06-05 18:41:32

using double_buffer yes makes it even worse since the entire screen just shows the wallpaper...and I have to blindly kill conky and remove double_buffer for me to be able to see anything.

blueblob · 2011-06-12 21:17:20

did you ever resolve this Inxsible?

stlarch · 2011-06-12 22:34:08

blueblob wrote:

did you ever resolve this Inxsible?

I don't think he did yet, he started a new thread, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120694 earlier. Why, do you have a solution for him? I'm sure he's beating his head against the desk about now.

Pank · 2011-06-14 23:34:43

HI,
I am using i3-tree-git.

I use Conky to display my current Org-agenda and todo list on the desktop (just in case).

However, I also rotate root images every x minutes with varying colors. Thus, I would be advantageous to keep the agenda within a semi-transparent box. However, it seems for this to work Conky needs its own window. If this is granted I3 will open it in a container, which is not what I wanted. I have tried all the options for the 'own_window_type' Conky variable.

Have somebody dealt with this issue in one way or another?

Thanks,
Rasmus

smartass · 2011-06-15 10:25:04

Hi Pank, I presume you are using the 'i3-tree' package from the AUR, or am I missing out on a better package ?

As far as I understand i3-tree, everything except a docked bar and the background is a container. So I think the only possibility is to either transform conky output to the background image, or to a dock bar.
And I guess your Org agenda size is way past a dock

So the only thing I can think of is somehow making a pipeline in a while loop:
1 render conky window (not sure if something like fake render output exists),
2 take a snapshot of that window,
3 blend it with your background (feh with montage ( or index or collage mode, what suits you best) mode, you set the background as the montage background and montage in the screenshot)
4 and then set it as background (also feh)

Slow, stupid, ineffective.

So good luck. I'm not sure if the author of i3 has thought of implementing this, because he uses i3-bar or i3-wsbar I think.

Pank · 2011-06-15 11:51:10

Well, it is no problem having conky displayed on the desktop. The problem is getting it on the desktop and adding a semi-transparent background.
The following illustrate my setup on a 'lucky' desktop:

But on a whitish background it isn't that easy to read...

While the route you suggest may be realistic I don't really find it all too compelling, I must admit. The proper solution would be to have i3 allow conky_window_class to be part of the root. . . I don't know if this is possible, though.

Thanks though,
Rasmus

PS: I don't think the devs would care about this issue I use i3bar as well, but input is from Conky, although i3status is very, very nice.

Army · 2011-06-15 12:33:41

So it's not yet possible to use conky as a dock? That's how I use i3 right now, but of course I want to switch to the tree branch as soon as possible.

Inxsible · 2011-06-15 13:56:49

I should check out this new tree branch as well. I keep hearing good things about it. Ever since I started with i3, I haven't had the need or the desire to try other WMs so I don't know if the tree branch has different keybindings, that will be a bummer

Army · 2011-06-15 14:02:04

For those interested, here's my PKGBUILD for the tree branch, which I am thinking of uploading to the AUR.

Inxsible · 2011-06-15 14:04:52

Army, what's different between this and your new PKGBUILD?

Pank · 2011-06-15 14:30:23

Army wrote:

So it's not yet possible to use conky as a dock? That's how I use i3 right now, but of course I want to switch to the tree branch as soon as possible.

Yeah, you can use conky in i3bar (that's what I do). Just conky | i3bar or i3bar -c conky. No problems. Alternatively, you can use i3status or something else.

But a todo and appointment list is not well suited for a bar IMO.

Edit: I use two instances of conky. One feating info to i3bar and one displaying Todos on the desktop.

The tree branch is fine. Being lazy I just used the AUR package. There are some things still missing, notably in terms of workspaces (e.g. naming). The config changed a bit a little while back, but it shouldn't take terribly long to configure it.

Cheers,
Rasmus

Last edited by Pank (2011-06-15 14:32:01)

Army · 2011-06-15 14:38:35

Inxsible wrote:

Army, what's different between this and your new PKGBUILD?

Oh, didn't look in the AUR if there is already a package. Ok then, take that from the AUR.

smartass · 2011-06-15 14:48:17

Pank, I'm sorry, but I'm getting a little confused

Pank wrote:

Well, it is no problem having conky displayed on the desktop. The problem is getting it on the desktop and adding a semi-transparent background.

You say you can display it on the desktop, but you can't get it there. Sorry, I'm lost.
Or do you mean you want the conky window to have a semi-transparent background different form the root background? I heard something like that can be done with imlib2 support.

Pank wrote:

The proper solution would be to have i3 allow conky_window_class to be part of the root. . . I don't know if this is possible, though.

I think this is a good technical question that the devs would be willing to answer.

The tree branch is completely different than other tilers, the tree metaphor and the ability to divide,group and position truly anything makes it actually even easier to use IMHO, so there are only a few basic keybindigs and their usage is more logical (no snapping trouble anymore).
And the tree branch even implements layout saving and other cool features.
So definitely worth trying, and I think it's fit for switching too, I haven't had a crash for a long time.

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