The MX-17 conkies

[Shay2]

The colors are fine just the way they are.
My eyes are 74 years old, read not to good, and I use the dark background and the transparency is great.
I did open MX Conky and tried playing with the colors and when closed, I had to push the start button until it shut down. Lots and lots of errors.

[tascoast]

MX Conky confused me initially as previews were unavailable in the new app and selecting another theme required stopping and selecting an alternative, which took several experiments to catch onto for me, although pleasant customisations are obviously available once a Cony theme is selected.
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I would be inclined to begin with the Conky Manager I know to select theme then tweak it via the nice new MX Conky tool. I will test a few themes once I become more familiar and append here:

[Jerry3904]

I would be inclined to begin with the Conky Manager I know to select theme then tweak it via the nice new MX Conky tool.

That's exactly what the sentence at the top of MX Conky says, right?

MXC_top.png

And the Help file repeats the same, and adds much greater detail.

[tascoast]

True although it was particularly difficult to read on my install,, as I mentioned. I sussed it out pretty quickly all told and got it soon enough. I really like the colour options it affords as I've never tinkered with Conky scripts here (reflecting from an advanced beginner mode ).
Have added my favorite Conky as attached and look forward to exploring the placement and date options.

I much appreciated having MX Tweak to set double-click actions efficiently, per habit.

[Jerry3904]

it was particularly difficult to read on my install

Why was that exactly? If we make the text larger or bold it, would that help?

[richb]

The following is a review of all the MX conky's in MX 17 beta 1 on an hdpi screen. My display is 1920x1280, Samsung 22 inch. For the purposes of this test I will retain the default dpi of 96, although I usually increase it to 120. In general, except for those I have already modified, and In the interest of time I will not propose font size changes as editing all these conkys to get the right size can be time consuming. This list will be added to in this post as I have time to evaluate them.

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Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.9.0-4-amd64, LLVM 3.9.1)
           version: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6

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1. MX Gotham
System information, Disk, Ram, CPU can use a larger font and spaced more below the date lines. But I think as it is would overwhelm smaller screens.
[code]#line 2
${voffset 1}${offset 12}${font Ubuntu:pixelsize=20}${color3}HD ${offset 9}$color${fs_free /} / ${fs_size /}${offset 30}${color3}RAM ${offset 9}$color$mem / $memmax${offset 30}${color3}CPU ${offset 9}$color${cpu cpu0}%

2. MX-Asq.clock
OK as is.

3. MX-geekytower logo
Text too small except for Time which is OK

4. MX-comuterlove
Text too small

5.MX-Coreblue
1. Text too small except for clock block
2. Bottom panels do not show.

6. MX-Cowan_less
OK as is.

7. MX Cowan_more
Too big, not necessary for hdpi

8. MX_Elementary
OK as is

9. MX-emays
System info text could be larger and move down away from time block

10. The 5 GoldGray conkys
Text too small

11. The two herrmos conky's
OK as is

12. MXKoO/Full
Text too small

13.LSD
OK as is

14. MUI
OK as is

15. MNM
Text too small

16. Mowgli
OK as is.

17. Simplice
OK as is.

18. Smooth Information
OK as is

19. All the tejees
Text too small except CPU percent OK

20. All the torns
OK except for those that have system information with small text.

21. The three transparent tiles
Text too small

22. Tron Legacy disk
Text too small

23. Tron legacy Time.
Time OK, other text too small

24. MX-Core Blue
a. Time and clock block is OK
b. All otther text too small
c. Bottom blocks are off screen[/code]

[Jerry3904]

It seems clear to me already it would not be prudent to have Gotham as our default conky. Our second choice was Elementary, but it lacks any system info. So I opened the script for MX-MNM and copied the code for that nice little line, pasting it in underneath the Elementary script and making a couple of adjustments such as locating it top_middle, removing the seconds, etc. This gives us another candidate that is less artistic in a graphic sense, but perhaps more stable once we finish making tweaks that render it more robust against user changes. See what you think.

Elementary_sys.png

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#This Conky was Made by Xaahu
#http://xaahudude.deviantart.com/
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Liberation Sans:size=9
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type normal
#own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 500 500
maximum_width 500
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no

default_shade_color 000000
default_outline_color 828282
alignment top_middle
gap_x 20
gap_y 20
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no

lua_load /home/didisoft/.conky/lua.lua

# ${diskiograph /dev/sda 15,180 a7a7a7 a7a7a7} # wskaznik pracy dysku
# ${image /home/didisoft/.conky/didisoft.jpg -p 0,80 -s 26x28} # obrazki w conky

default_color edf1f6
color1 a8812d
color2 ffffff

TEXT
#time
${offset 80}${color1}${font Quicksand Light - U:pixelsize=70}${time %l %M}${font}${voffset -20}${offset 10}${font Existence Light - U:pixelsize=20}${time %p}${font}

#date
${color2}${voffset 10}${offset 120}${font Existence Light - U:pixelsize=20}${time %A %B %d}${font}
${voffset -26}${offset 40}${font Existence Light - U:pixelsize=32}${time %Y}${font}

#sys
${offset 40}${color1}CPU ${offset 9}${color}${cpu cpu0}%${offset 9}${cpu cpu1}%${offset 9}${color1}HD ${color}root${offset 9}$color${fs_used_perc /}%${offset 9} home ${fs_used_perc /home}%${offset 9}${color1}RAM ${offset 9}${color}${memperc}%${offset 9}${offset 9}

[richb]

That would work. But again on hdpi system info font is too small. Changing the font from 9 to 12 point for hdpi makes it acceptable for both, I thnk.

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xftfont Liberation Sans:size=9

To
xftfont Liberation Sans:size=12

[Adrian]

That looks good, the only thing that is important for me is not to cover the installer icon, if it does (even in only a few cases) it shouldn't be on by default.

[peregrine]

The revised Elementary looks very nice