I recently changed my Fluxbox and Conky configuration after one year. The old setting had Conky on the left and maximized window wouldn’t cover it, I had a special key to do such maximization. The toolbar of Fluxbox had only windowlist and an iconbar.
I had been feeling I wanted windows to be able to truly maximize to use whole area. So, I began to decide what to do. I had thought of making an emergency notification. Tracking CPU utilization or memory usage, when resources goes too low, it sends a notification. I discarded such thought because it took too much effort. I also thought about a slide-in method, press a key, then Conky window comes from one of the edges, but didn’t have a way to make it happen.
In the end, I added a clock on the left of toolbar and rearranged Conky layout. I adopted the new alignment middle_middle from Conky 1.8, so it would be rendered in the center of screen. When I need to check my system I press Mod4+D to hide windows, then again to bring windows back. Since it’s not be seen always, I increased the update interval to six seconds (10 times every minute).
Now it shows three-month calendar, everything is reallocated and more information has been added. I also highlight some of those number which I read most often, so I could quickly find them.
Sigh, yet another case of someone posting a screenshot of an interesting looking conky set up but doesn't post the .conkyrc so that other people can see how they did it.
ReplyDeleteBecause this is just a small modification, and the related link and essential code change have been attached and explained. The post is not meant to give you all and it shouldn't be doing that.
ReplyDeleteIf you really need to see the conky file, here is some of my dotfiles.