Comments on: A useful calendar in Conky

By: sethjust

sethjust — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:34 +0000

First, because I have no knowledge of Lua or using it with conky. Second, because I figured it out without Lua – using the command line works perfectly well.

By: ramzport

ramzport — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:27:47 +0000

Why not use Lua?

By: sethjust

sethjust — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:01:59 +0000

Very nice. I have my conky hug the left side of my screen, so I prefer the calendar left-aligned, but good job on getting the alignment to work. It looks like you’re using sed to insert an ${alignc} at the beginning of each line. Awesome.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:38:48 +0000

Thanks for the conky calendar line, works great.
I did make one slight modification to the main line to get the calendar to center in the conky space it was in. I piped it through sed again to replace the beginning of each line with ${alignc}(For some reason it didn’t work if you placed the ${alignc} at the beginning of the conky config line. It would only align the first line.) Anyways, thought you might like to see it so here it is. Thanks again… -Erik

${font DejaVu Sans Mono :size=8}${execpi 60 DJS=`date +%_d`; cal | sed s/”$DJS”‘\b’/'${color orange}’”$DJS”‘$color’/ | sed s/^/’${alignc}’/}