[Solved]Conky and word wrapping - Is there a way?

Question

So I have a very limited area to work with, something like 176x360 (+/- a few pixels), and I want the ability to show an RSS feed. Well, the feed works of course, but due to the limited width, I'm in great need of word wrapping, and for that problem I have found no solution and going on for 2-3 hours straight, my head hurts
Anyway, here's my .conkyrc, not that it's needed of course.
# ~/.conkyrc
double_buffer yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_colour hotpink
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,sticky,skip_pager
minimum_size 176 360
maximum_size 176 360
maximum_width 176
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 0
border_margin 0
border_width 0
default_color green
default_shade_color green
default_outline_color green
alignment bottom_right
gap_x 16
gap_y 16
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
TEXT
$alignc${nodename}
$alignc${sysname} ${kernel}
$hr
CPU:$alignr$cpu% ${cpubar 10,106}
RAM:$alignr$memperc% ${membar 10,106}
HDD:$alignr${fs_used_perc /}% ${fs_bar 10,106 /}
BAT:$alignr${battery_percent}% ${battery_bar 10,106}
$hr
Download: Upload:
eth0 ${downspeed eth0} $alignr${upspeed eth0}
wlan0 ${downspeed wlan0} $alignr${upspeed wlan0}
$hr
${alignc}ARCH NEWS
${rss http://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/ 1 item_titles 10 }
I know this looks confusing and probably is full of critical error, but that simple because I'm a conky noob. I basically just downloaded a profile I liked and completely changed it over the course of a few hours.
Anyway, I'm rambling again, but if you've got any idea's, please do let me know.
Best regards.
Last edited by zacariaz (2012-08-27 17:19:35)

Answer 1

Okay, so I've found sort of a solution to part of the problem, so what I have so far look like this:
wget -quiet -O - archlinux.org/feeds/news/ | fmt -w 25 -g 25
It works as long as there are no words longer than 25 character, which I should think is rare, even including package names and such.
However there's still the issue parsing the xml so I get only what I want:
<item><title>$content</title><link>
This may be solved using some sort of terminal rss parser, but I would rather prefer not to.
Then there's the issue with reloading.
My current conky is set to reload every second, but of course one can't just pull the feed every second and I'm not convinced that conky has any built in solution for that problem. Of course I can always start a cronjob and save it all to a file, but portability would be nice.
anyway, I'll return later.