VoodooDali wrote:I may re-visit e17 after the devs have had a chance to rebuild the modules.
Well, I just did an update. Most, if not all, e17 packages are in the updates. But, all failed to update, so I'll have to post the transaction list.
VoodooDali wrote:As for conky and the pseudo-transparency issue, I just got that info from conky's project page on sourceforge. Maybe it's old info? In any case, I tried the transparency settings and I just got a black box on both KDE and e17.
If the conky authors say it's not "true" transparency, they're probably right and I'm probably wrong. I think I know a way to test that later on. I am just a lowly grasshopper, consuming digital electrons.
Anyway, FWIW, here are the config files for what you see in the screenshot. First, .conkyrc:
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# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont sans:size=10
xftalpha 0.5
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
# ARGB can be used for real transparency, note that a composite manager is required for real transparency
own_window_argb_visual true
# Set the transparency alpha value from 0 to 255
own_window_argb_value 0
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 500 5
maximum_width 242
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color Gold
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
alignment top_right
gap_x 10
gap_y 20
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
TEXT
${color orange}${hr 2}
${color}${alignc}System
${color orange}${hr 2}
${color}$sysname $alignr $kernel
${time %A %b %d, %Y %I:%M %p %Z}
Uptime: $uptime
Processes: $processes ${alignr}Running:$running_processes
${color orange}${hr 2}
${color}CPU: ${alignr}${cpu}%
${color green}${cpubar 6 cpu1}
${color}RAM: $mem of $memmax ${alignr}$memperc%
${color green}${membar 6}
${color}SWAP: $swap of $swapmax ${alignr}$swapperc%
${color green}${swapbar 6}
${color}Root: ${fs_used /} of ${fs_size /}${alignr}${fs_used_perc /}%
${color green}${fs_bar 6 /}
${color}${goto 50}AVAILABLE${goto 150}USED
ZRAM: ${exec cat /proc/swaps |grep zram |cut -f 2}KB ${goto 150}${exec cat /proc/swaps |grep zram |cut -f 3}KB
${color orange}${hr 2}
${color}${alignc}Network
${color orange}${hr 2}
${color}${alignc} eth0 ${addr eth0}
Inbound $alignr ${downspeed eth0} kb/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 00ff00 00ff00}
Outbound $alignr ${upspeed eth0} kb/s
${upspeedgraph eth0 00ff00 00ff00}
${color orange}${hr 2}
${color}${alignc}Timezones:
${color orange}${hr 2}
${color}London ${alignr}${tztime Europe/London %-I:%M %p}
Paris ${alignr}${tztime Europe/Paris %-I:%M %p}
Calcutta ${alignr}${tztime Asia/Kolkata %-I:%M %p}
Tokyo ${alignr}${tztime Asia/Tokyo %-I:%M %p}
Sydney ${alignr}${tztime Australia/Sydney %-I:%M %p}
Honolulu ${alignr}${tztime US/Hawaii %-I:%M %p}
Los Angeles ${alignr}${tztime America/Los_Angeles %-I:%M %p}
New York ${alignr}${tztime America/New_York %-I:%M %p}
${color orange}${hr 2}
${color}${alignc}${execi 300 ~/scripts/weather.sh 73013}
${color orange}${hr 2}
The
own_window parameters at the top of the file are the keys. Whether the same will work in Kwin or not, I don't know. e17 needs a desktop file to autostart a program at login. There's another way, but a desktop file is the easiest. So, here's the desktop file I use to autostart conky at login:
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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=conky
Exec=sleep 10;conky
Icon=
Categories=System;
The sleep 10 seconds command is there because conky will start in the upper left corner without it, instead of the upper right corner, where I want it. The weather.sh script is called from .conkyrc in the next to the last line. It just displays basic info for current weather for your location.
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#!/bin/sh
#AccuWeather (r) RSS weather tool for conky
#
#USAGE: weather.sh <locationcode>
#
#(c) Michael Seiler 2007
METRIC=0 #Should be 0 or 1; 0 for F, 1 for C
if [ -z $1 ]; then
echo
echo "USAGE: weather.sh <locationcode>"
echo
exit 0;
fi
curl -s http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp\?metric\=${METRIC}\&locCode\=$1 | perl -ne 'if (/Currently/) {chomp;/\<title\>Currently: (.*)?\<\/title\>/; print "$1"; }'
Change the ZIP code in the next to the last line of .conkyrc to match your location in the U.S. If you are outside the U.S., go to
http://accuweather.com to find your corresponding weather code.
Posted: May 10th, '13, 22:58
I'll try it again, but I'm tired and frustrated from tweaking and taking a break from it. 
that's a gold mine of information, and I'm gonna take a little time to study it. Thanks! 
cheers
