Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Conkywx Conky Weather Script - Conkywx ONE Released


If your main language is not English - conkywx can display information and messages in your native language - contact me if you are willing to help with the simple translations. You shall get the FULL credit for your work.

Now Conkywx is 1.0 - Faster Sleeker - Additions and changes:
  • Dynamic Moon
  • Font to Image
  • Trend Graphs
  • Scrolling Weather Alerts
  • Active Weather Alerts
  • Tropical Weather Storm Warnings
  • Moon Works for Both Hemispheres
  • Bug fixes and tweaks.

NOTE:
  • As many users are using various conky variants - conky is no longer a dependency but however - conky is still required. Please ensure conky - in what ever form - is infact installed. 
  • Refer to the included release notes for changes additions etc...
  • To reduce duplication of effort - conkywx man page now has basic information and has a link to the wiki which is normally being updated real time as changes to conkywx are being made.
  • If you are using Gnome 3 - own_window_type in the *conkyrc.sh needs to be changed to normal dock etc
  • In some cases to have conky restart automatically you may need to give a sleep 30 - delay in your conky-start script
  • *conkyrc.sh files are configured on XFCE 4.10 with compiz + emerald - you may need to tweak conkyrc examples for your DE

conkywx ONE


There is a wiki page conkywx wiki

Due to the changes at the wunderground site - all earlier versions of conkywx do not work - see this post for conkywx latest information

For this stand alone version run the conkywx_fonts_assistant.sh file to install or remove conkywx fonts.

People - feedback from you would be great ;-)


Sunday, June 02, 2013

Conkywx Conky Weather Script - Program with Scrolling Weather Alerts - Conkywx 0.9.3 Released

NOTE:

Fixes Wunderground changes on the website which affected the forecast information.


Additions and changes:
  • Fixes Wunderground changes on the website which affected the forecast information.
  • Refer to the system information conky-system.sh - the lib directory has Arch linux auto package update information files.
  • Bug fixes and tweaks.

NOTE:
  • As many users are using various conky variants - conky is no longer a dependency but however - conky is still required. Please ensure conky - in what ever form - is infact installed. 
  • To reduce duplication of effort - conkywx man page now has basic information and has a link to the wiki which is normally being updated real time as changes to conkywx are being made.
  • On Arch Linux the new conkywx.conf will be saved as /etc/conkywx/conkywx.conf.pacnew - review the changes and update your conkywx.conf
  • If you are using Gnome 3 - own_window_type in the *conkyrc.sh needs to be changed to normal dock etc
  • In some cases to have conky restart automatically you may need to give a sleep 30 - delay in your conky-start script
  • *conkyrc.sh files are configured on XFCE 4.10 with compiz + emerald - you may need to tweak conkyrc examples for your DE

conkywx with scrolling alerts


There is a wiki page conkywx wiki

Distro File Location
Arch linux AUR Arch_Linux_AUR_0.9.3
Debian based Ubuntu, CrunchBang, Mint etc Download version 0.9.3
RPM based Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Suse, OpenSuse etc Download version 0.9.3
Stand Alone version you can run in your home directory Download_version_0.9.3_sa

For this stand alone version run the conkywx_fonts_assistant.sh file to install or remove conkywx fonts.

People - feedback from you would be great ;-)


Monday, May 20, 2013

Conkywx Conky Weather Script - Program with Scrolling Weather Alerts - Conkywx 0.9.2 Released

NOTE:

Conkywx Conky Weather Program now displays Scrolling Weather Alerts !!!

Conkywx is now your very own weather warning / alert program !

Weather Information for Conky - or as some may say Conky Weather Script Program

Many changes and updates - Refer to the conkywx wiki for more information.

Additions and changes:
  • Code tweaks for the language and template cleanup.
  • Conkywx creates an alert file - wxalert - with the alert text. Refer to the wiki on usage in your conkyrc file.
  • The program shows the number of alerts.
  • These alerts can be viewed in your conky using sample scroll code in conkywx short templates.
  • A very slim new scrolling template wx-wu-scroller-conkyrc.sh - full weather with alerts.

NOTE:
  • As many users are using various conky variants - conky is no longer a dependency but however - conky is still required. Please ensure conky - in what ever form - is infact installed. 
  • To reduce duplication of effort - conkywx man page now has basic information and has a link to the wiki which is normally being updated real time as changes to conkywx are being made.
  • On Arch Linux the new conkywx.conf will be saved as /etc/conkywx/conkywx.conf.pacnew - review the changes and update your conkywx.conf
  • If you are using Gnome 3 - own_window_type in the *conkyrc.sh needs to be changed to normal dock etc
  • In some cases to have conky restart automatically you may need to give a sleep 30 - delay in your conky-start script
  • *conkyrc.sh files are configured on XFCE 4.10 with compiz + emerald - you may need to tweak conkyrc examples for your DE

conkywx with scrolling alerts


There is a wiki page conkywx wiki

Distro File Location
Arch linux AUR Arch_Linux_AUR_0.9.2
Debian based Ubuntu, CrunchBang, Mint etc Download version 0.9.2
RPM based Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Suse, OpenSuse etc Download version 0.9.2
Stand Alone version you can run in your home directory Download_version_0.9.2_sa

For this stand alone version run the conkywx_fonts_assistant.sh file to install or remove conkywx fonts.

People - feedback from you would be great ;-)


Thursday, May 09, 2013

Conkywx Conky Weather Program with Weather Alerts - Conkywx 0.9.1 Released

NOTE:

Conkywx Conky Weather Program now displays Weather Alerts !!!

Conkywx is now your very own weather warning / alert program !

Weather Information for Conky - or as some may say Conky Weather Program

Many changes and updates - Refer to the conkywx wiki for more information.


Additions and changes:
  • Code tweaks for the language engine.
  • config file has a new element moon_time for getting your format for moon phases date and time
  • These Conkywx Weather Alerts or warnings are displayed automatically.
  • 1 new elements - WALERT - use this element to see the Alert heading.

NOTE:
  • As many users are using various conky variants - conky is no longer a dependency but however - conky is still required. Please ensure conky - in what ever form - is infact installed. 
  • To reduce duplication of effort - conkywx man page now has basic information and has a link to the wiki which is normally being updated real time as changes to conkywx are being made.
  • On Arch Linux the new conkywx.conf will be saved as /etc/conkywx/conkywx.conf.pacnew - review the changes and update your conkywx.conf
  • If you are using Gnome 3 - own_window_type in the *conkyrc.sh needs to be changed to normal
  • In some cases to have conky restart automatically you may need to give a sleep 30 - delay in your conky-start script
  • *conkyrc.sh files are configured on XFCE 4.10 with compiz + emerald - you may need to tweak conkyrc examples for your DE
Photo hosted by zimagez.com

There is a wiki page conkywx wiki

Distro File Location
Arch linux AUR Arch_Linux_AUR_0.9.1
Debian based Ubuntu, CrunchBang, Mint etc Download version 0.9.1
RPM based Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Suse, OpenSuse etc Download version 0.9.1
Stand Alone version you can run in your home directory Download_version_0.9.1_sa

For this stand alone version run the conkywx_fonts_assistant.sh file to install or remove conkywx fonts.

People - feedback from you would be great ;-)


Monday, May 06, 2013

Conkywx - conky weather program - conkywx weather alerts

There were some requests for weather alerts and sooooo have worked that alert thing out - by default - no user intervention - conkywx will show an alert if wunderground shows any Active Advisory for your location. This will be an "!" exclamation character before the present weather condition. Like it may show "! Overcast" or what ever.

There is also a new element WALERT which will show the actual advisory name like Flood Warning - which is in place for Mississippi area at present.

Now the actual text in that advisory is on another page - and can be quite extensive - and also the radar image - both are ignored by conkywx.

The basic idea is that you get fair warning that there is a weather phenomena which has a potential of messing with your daily life and that you should visit wunderground website to see the details.
Conkywx Weather Alerts
In this image you see the same location with and without WALERT - I have used it along with present condition like [WALERT][CT]

I feel this should be fine ;)

Friday, April 19, 2013

Conkywx Conky Weather Program - Conkywx 0.9.0 Released

NOTE:
For latest version of Conkywx Conky Weather Program please look here

Weather Information for Conky - or as some may say Conky Weather Program

Many changes and updates - Refer to the conkywx wiki for more information.

With so many changes - focus has been for speed of execution - Magellan [Astronomy] C source is included - Bash is now a good facilitator for conkywx as the data is parsed by the perl module.

Magellan - thanks to the wise Gurus who wrote the original stuff - but had to tailor the code for my use and tweaked for improving data accuracy - My reference data has been the US Naval Obs data on the web. Wiki has more details.

Additions and changes:
  • Please do go through the config.conf file as it has many additions
  • Language support for display as well as messages
  • Magellan - Astronomy module written in C - only weather data now used from wunderground
  • Required fonts installer for stand alone users
  • Trends code re-written and smoother
  • New data parser written in perl
  • 16 new elements - please refer to wiki for details

NOTE:
  • As many users are using various conky variants - conky is no longer a dependency but however - conky is still required. Please ensure conky - in what ever form - is infact installed. 
  • To reduce duplication of effort - conkywx man page now has basic information and has a link to the wiki which is normally being updated real time as changes to conkywx are being made.
  • On Arch Linux the new conkywx.conf will be saved as /etc/conkywx/conkywx.conf.pacnew - review the changes and update your conkywx.conf
  • If you are using Gnome 3 - own_window_type in the *conkyrc.sh needs to be changed to normal
  • In some cases to have conky restart automatically you may need to give a sleep 30 - delay in your conky-start script
  • *conkyrc.sh files are configured on XFCE 4.10 with compiz + emerald - you may need to tweak conkyrc examples for your DE
Photo hosted by zimagez.com

There is a wiki page conkywx wiki

Distro File Location
Arch linux AUR Arch_Linux_AUR_0.9.0
Debian based Ubuntu, CrunchBang, Mint etc Download ver 0.9.0
RPM based Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Suse, OpenSuse etc Download ver 0.9.0
Stand Alone version you can run in your home directory Download_version_0.9.0_sa

For this stand alone version run the conkywx_fonts_assistant.sh file to install or remove conkywx fonts.

People - feedback from you would be great ;-)


Monday, March 25, 2013

Language Translations for Conkywx

The New Version of conkywx will have the ability to give you display data and conkywx messages in your language.

At present we have Italian Translation done by "Night Train"

I am looking for further translations.

If you can help - it will be great - Just email / message me and we can then get it started.

2 files - one for weather conditions and the other for conkywx messages need translation.

The default Language is English.