The MX-17 conkies

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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#101 Post by Jerry3904 »

Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. Can you please explain a little more?
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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#102 Post by asqwerth »

He means that in the wallpaper-changer program called "variety", there is an option to post quotes on the desktop, and it would appear that Chinese characters do show up. But that is probably because the member has already installed the necessary fonts and the locale/language is set for China or Taiwan.

The issue with this conky is that it is set to display a very specific font, infini, and infini does not have the characters for Chinese/Korean/Japanese.
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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#103 Post by cyrilus31 »

Yes that's why he should have tried what Jerry told him just before ;)

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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#104 Post by ldsemerchen »

asqwerth wrote:He means that in the wallpaper-changer program called "variety", there is an option to post quotes on the desktop, and it would appear that Chinese characters do show up. But that is probably because the member has already installed the necessary fonts and the locale/language is set for China or Taiwan.

The issue with this conky is that it is set to display a very specific font, infini, and infini does not have the characters for Chinese/Korean/Japanese.
Thank you for your explain.

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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#105 Post by ldsemerchen »

Jerry3904 wrote:Thank you. Can you please try opening the script (launch Conky Manager, highlight the active conky, click on the pencil icon) and do this:

1) use Search > Replace to change all "Infini" to "wqy-microhei"
2) change the line "override_utf8_locale no" to "override_utf8_locale yes"

Save and let us know if that works. Thanks.
Yes, it works now. I think the team had better choose the font support unicode to prevent TOFU show up. (ex: Google's Notosans CJK fonts) Or let user choose font they want through GUI configuration.
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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#106 Post by Jerry3904 »

From skidoo:
consider jogging the default x/y offset for the "torn red paper" conky (as is, it partially obscures the MX logo of the default wallpaper)

noticed: at the foot of one of the tall conkies, a line displays ${some_var} an unknown/unreplaced placeholder

noticed: paperclip icon in panel lacks an onhover hint text
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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#107 Post by Jerry3904 »

Back to the single desktop question,there may be a way:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... sapce?rq=1

Not sure how that would work for us, but we can look into it sometime.
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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#108 Post by male »

The command line tool wmctrl is used to display different Conky configurations from system startup on several workspaces.

e. g. an entry in the autostart directory looks like this

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sleep 25 && wmctrl -s 1 && conky -q -c /home/male/2016_S11.conkyrc &
#sleep 30 && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -q -c /home/male/1_accuweather/.conkyrc_1_weatherfont_simpler9 &
sleep 30 && wmctrl -s 2 && conky -q -c /home/male/S11/TEST/greyConkyrc &
sleep 40 && wmctrl -s 3 && conky -q -c /media/DATEN/francescoPC/Conky/derivantArt/ututo/s11Version/conkyrc &
Here is an example under kde-plasma on three work surfaces and 10 conkys.
wmctrl.jpg
wmctrl1.jpg
wmctrl2.jpg
wmctrl3.jpg
The counting method is similar to GRUB:
Work surface 1 = wmctrl 0
...
Work surface 4 = wmctrl 3

The sleep times depend on the desktop. KDE plasma is considerably slower than fluxbox. ;)
Sticky Conkys may only be registered on work surface 1 :exclamation:

I doubt, however, that such a project should be integrated into the delivery of a distribution. :lipsrsealed:

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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#109 Post by Jerry3904 »

Thanks, but you're right: that ain't gonna happen!
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Re: The MX-17 conkies

#110 Post by richb »

I am not sure what the problem is, but I do get different conkies on different workspaces by using MX Conky and checking Desktop 1 when in the alternate workspace with anew conky. Apparently MX Conky recognizes desktop 1 as the workspace that is showing. Or are you referring to a different problem?
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