Re: [NEW] Conky 1.8.5 n900 edition
 

Alright, progress - while digging around for the much more important thing (how to auto-enable conky rotation from within conky), I stumbled upon keyboard state being open/closed.

/sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch/slide/state

(In case anyone wanted to know.) So we're one step closer to fully properly rotating Conky.

I'm not ignoring the thing above about $alignr and the values being wierd - I just haven't had time to look at it at all.

Re: [NEW] Conky 1.8.5 n900 edition
 

No problem. It's just that I would like to know what I'm doing wrong. I like to learn ;) Some other time.

Re: [NEW] Conky 1.8.5 n900 edition
 

Well, as you may have seen I posted a thread asking for help. I simply have no idea how to set the auto-rotate flag from the command line, and I have no clue what other documentation I can conceivably look through, so I should have a bit more time to experiment with the alignr and the new features of conky in general over the next few days.

Re: [NEW] Conky 1.8.5 n900 edition
 

I struggled to get $alignr working properly under the old conky on n900, and I think on my PC too. I ended up using $goto instead.

You've also got to look at the font you are using. Using a non-monospace font can also mess up your tables. On my desktop I ended up using my font (HandelGotDBold) everywhere else and then a monospace on for the table.

Re: [NEW] Conky 1.8.5 n900 edition
 

hey guys,
sorry, i was moving to a new house the last weekend so i didn't have time to see what's going on here.
I got enough work done to fix the problems with the .conf file installing and the auto-install for the dependencies just won't work until this is move to a repository. I thought it's not worth doing a new build because it's easy to copy the .conf file, and I assumed the dependency thing is fixable on my end, so I could do that too.
Anyways, I'm sure your ghost conky process is all from when it doesn't load the .conf correctly on your first attempt, if you didn't have a valid .conf installed it just runs invisibly I guess. So either kill it or restart to fix that. Although conky runs in a background process and is launched by a shell script, I have never seen it launch extra processes except when I break the .conf file.
Also the alignr stuff I think is simple, the # you specify is the number of pixels you want to count backwards from the right edge, so if I say something like alignr 500, it's the same as a goto 300, except the text flows the opposite direction. Only reason I used it was so I can align by the unit symbol (%,M) to the right edge of the bars, and a 2 or 3 digit number won't change that.
You can only specify one alignment type per line of text, so I write the text with one alignment, and then on the next line specify a negative vertical offset (pretty much a random number, trial and error) and write the rest of the text.
Okay, I should probably get back to work now, I can't really do anything with conky until I put my computer desk back together, and I lost some screws somewhere. Moving sucks :( I'll see what I can do about the portrait mode soon though.

Re: [NEW] Conky 1.8.5 n900 edition
 

Well, all you really need to do is link the hildon-always-rotate flag that every app running on the N900 has somewhere, as I understand it - and tie it to a setting that can be set with a yes/no in the conf file. We have the rest already (though if you know how to make conky report whether the window is rotated in landscape or portrait - as opposed to the device's raw accelerometer-determined position), and set that as, say, $orientation variable and $if_portrait and $if_landscape variables (or $if_orientation [portrait/landscape]), that would make things more convenient and less processor intensive to the average portrait-capable configs.

But the latter isn't as necessary. No rush though. It's workable as is. :) You already contributed ridiculously by making this port.

Also, thanks for clearing up the alignr thing.

Re: [NEW] Conky 1.8.5 n900 edition
 

Hello Do you plan to upload this in the repos to be able to install via App Manager?

Thanks

Re: [NEW] Conky 1.8.5 n900 edition
 

I believe he will eventually.

Meanwhile, Titan just responded to my pm. He released the latest power kernel. And guess what? That one thing we were missing in kernel, top I/O per process, is supported now. Rejoice, Conky users. You can now get that much more stats from your N900s.

Re: [Updated Nov 11] Conky 1.9.0 n900 edition
 

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat really?
that's awesome. there goes my night.
latest 1.9.0 build supports image variable $image now
you will have to install "libimlib2" though

i really didn't want to update the kernel, but i got it working now. that boot menu is a ***** to reconfigure!
gonna start looking at that iostats thing now.

damn, top_io just shows the difference between the io value from the update interval as it refreshes. so if you refresh it every second, it's gonna show 0 most of the time :(
the "diskio_avg_samples" config setting has no effect on this, it's just for the other (non top related) disk io stats. like the graphs for the whole device or whatever.

http://appcheck.net/storage/Screensh...112-005757.png

Re: [Updated Nov 11] Conky 1.9.0 n900 edition
 

Repos please! Great app.