Sunday, December 26, 2010

Another conky config showing date, time, stats, calendar, gmail and weather

Update: Conky weather no longer works, so i have used yahoo weather to get the same effect in my new config. Look here for details.

These are a couple of conkys showing you the date, time, stats, calendar, gmail and weather forecast.





You will need a lot of fonts and few scripts to run this successfully. 
Fonts used
  1. Radio Space
  2. hooge font
  3. Poky font
  4. Weather font
  5. OPenLogos font
  6. PizzaDude Bullets font
  7. VariShapes Solid font
  8. StyleBats font
  9. DejaVu Sans
  10. Liberation Serif
Google for them and download free from the sites.


Scripts used:
  1. conkyForecast.py
  2. conky3Days.templet
  3. gmail.pl
Download the scripts from here.

Logo used:


.conkyrc for the first conky in the above pics is here.
And the .conkyrc for the second pic is here.

Download and save the fonts, scripts and logo.
You will need to edit the scripts and change the paths, to make it work.
If you need more info...... for 
Have fun......