One line, one bar conky...

Question

Can anyone help me? Have a look at this screen:
The bottom bar of the three is conky. I want it to show the time, gmail status and rhythmbox status all in one line across the screen, but it keeps trying to seperate it into lines.
Here's my .conkyrc:
# conky configuration
# edited by kaivalagi
# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background no
# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Terminus:size=9
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8
# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0
# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window no
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 1680 0
# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes
# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no
# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0
# border margins
border_margin 0
# border width
border_width 0
# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
# own window options
own_window yes
own_window_transparent no
own_window_type widget
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 0
gap_y 80
# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes
# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no
# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2
# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2
# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale no
# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer no
# colours
color1 white
# light blue
color2 6892C6
# orange
color3 E77320
# green
color4 78BF39
# red
color5 CC0000
# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter
# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network
# stuff because of an argument
# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
TEXT
${font Droid Sans:size=8}${color1}${execpi 300 python ~/.scripts/gmail_parser.py <edited email and password> 3}{font Droid Sans:size=8}${color1}${time %H}:${time %M}${time %A}${color1}${font Droid Sans:size=10}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=TI}${color1}${font Droid Sans:size=8} // ${color1}${font Droid Sans:size=8}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=AR}${color1}${font Droid Sans:size=8} // ${color1}${font Droid Sans:Italic:size=8}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=AL}${color1}${font Droid Sans:size=8} // ${color1}${font Droid Sans:size=7 com}${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=PT}/${exec conkyRhythmbox --datatype=LE}
What am I doing wrong, O' Wise Ones?
/izo\
Last edited by Izobalax (2009-06-18 20:14:31)

Answer 1

brisbin33 wrote:
Izobalax wrote:For some reason the gmail checker forces a new line. Any ideas?
i think we'd have to see gmailparser.py to help on that.
## check-gmail.py -- A command line util to check GMail -*- Python -*-
## modified to display mailbox summary for conky
# ======================================================================
# Copyright (C) 2006 Baishampayan Ghose <[email protected]>
# Modified 2008 Hunter Loftis <[email protected]>
# Time-stamp: Mon Jul 31, 2006 20:45+0530
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
# published by the Free Software Foundation.
# ======================================================================
import sys
import urllib # For BasicHTTPAuthentication
import feedparser # For parsing the feed
from textwrap import wrap
_URL = "https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom"
uname = sys.argv[1]
password = sys.argv[2]
maxlen = sys.argv[3]
urllib.FancyURLopener.prompt_user_passwd = lambda self, host, realm: (uname, password)
def auth():
'''The method to do HTTPBasicAuthentication'''
opener = urllib.FancyURLopener()
f = opener.open(_URL)
feed = f.read()
return feed
def readmail(feed, maxlen):
'''Parse the Atom feed and print a summary'''
atom = feedparser.parse(feed)
print '${color1} %s new email(s)\n' % (len(atom.entries))
# for i in range(min(len(atom.entries), maxlen)):
# print ' ${color2}%s' % atom.entries[i].title
#uncomment the following line if you want to show the name of the sender
# print ' ${color2}%s' % atom.entries[i].author
# if len(atom.entries) > maxlen:
# print ' ${color}more...'
if __name__ == "__main__":
f = auth() # Do auth and then get the feed
readmail(f, int(maxlen)) # Let the feed be chewed by feedparser
/izo\