[solved]Openbox margins and Conky

I have a 1 line conky that i want to remain at the top of my screen at all times. I set up a margin in openbox to leave enough pixels at the top to comfortably fit the conky. The problem is that when i first boot to my desktop conky is placed below the margin. If i restart X however conky is right where i want it in the margin. Does anyone know how to put conky in the right place the first time?
.conkyrc is setup for top_left placement and theres only a few pixels on the y axis from the top.
I call conky from .xinitrc before openbox
I can't think of any other relevant info but let me know!
Last edited by czar (2008-06-04 01:18:09)

B wrote:
The function created with the brackets, combined with the ampersand, puts the whole sequence in the background, so .xinitrc will not stop being parsed for that whole time.
Don't worry, the guy knows what he's talking about...
thanks for clearing that up. I read the parenthesis as English not as code. sorry for doubting you redroar!
And moljac, i'll check that out when i get home, thanks.
Last edited by czar (2008-06-02 17:54:29)

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0 Kbps   2000 Kbps
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Openbox-Debug: UPDATE DESKTOP NAMES
Openbox-Debug: Keyboard map changed. Reloading keyboard bindings.
Edit4: Removed everything from /etc/xdg/autostart and ~/.config/autostart/ directories. That didn't work.
Edit5: Tried installing xorg-xsetroot to let openbox set the color of the wallpaper. That didn't work.
Edit6: Checked the output of "loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID" to make sure that wasn't the issue. Looks okay to me:
Id=1
Timestamp=Fri 2013-05-17 10:25:53 PDT
TimestampMonotonic=13650783
DefaultControlGroup=systemd:/user/1000.user/1.session
VTNr=1
TTY=tty1
Remote=no
Service=login
Leader=405
Audit=1
Type=tty
Class=user
Active=yes
State=active
KillProcesses=no
IdleHint=no
IdleSinceHint=1368811547544203
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=7545641
Name=dodo3773
Edit7: Tried installing xorg-xrdb thinking maybe that would help and did todays updates. No luck yet.
Edit8: Kupfer still loads even though nothing else does. So I uninstalled kupfer. Same thing though. No autostart.
Edit9: Tried booting into repo kernel instead of ck kernel. Didn't work.
Last edited by dodo3773 (2013-05-19 06:34:44)

WonderWoofy wrote:Interestingly, of all those things you included in your post, you forgot to include the autostart script itself. What does that look like?
Well, since it worked fine even when called indirectly through openbox-autostart and since it's worked fine for months I figured it was fine. I am happy to post it though. Here you go:
feh --bg-scale /home/dodo3773/Pictures/blacksolid.png &
xfce4-panel &
numlockx &
keepassx -lock &
kupfer --no-splash &
~/Documents/Scripts/startupopen.sh &
sleep 30 && sudo /usr/bin/ntpd -qg &
sudo /usr/sbin/ethtool -K eth0 rx off &
~/Documents/Scripts/conky.sh &
sudo /home/dodo3773/Documents/Scripts/temp_throttlenew > /dev/null 2>&1 &
Here are the external scripts that are called (startupopen.sh and temp_throttlenew):
startupopen.sh
#! /bin/bash
sleep 13
chromium &
thunderbird &
sleep 20
devilspie -a &
sleep 7
pkill devilspie &
exit
temp_throttlenew
#!/bin/bash
# temp_throttle.sh max_temp
# USE CELSIUS TEMPERATURES.
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
#if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
# If temperature wasn't given, then print a message and exit.
# echo "Please supply a maximum desired temperature in Celsius." 1>&2
# echo "For example: ${0} 60" 1>&2
# exit 2
#else
#Set the first argument as the maximum desired temperature.
MAX_TEMP=85
#fi
# The frequency will increase when low temperature is reached.
let LOW_TEMP=$MAX_TEMP-5
CORES=$(nproc) # Get number of CPU cores.
echo -e "Number of CPU cores detected: $CORES\n"
# Temperatures internally are calculated to the thousandth.
MAX_TEMP=${MAX_TEMP}000
LOW_TEMP=${LOW_TEMP}000
# FREQ_LIST is a list (array) of all available cpu frequencies the system allows.
declare -a FREQ_LIST=($(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies))
# CURRENT_FREQ relates to the FREQ_LIST by keeping record of the currently set frequency.
let CURRENT_FREQ=1
function set_freq {
echo ${FREQ_LIST[$1]}
cpupower frequency-set -g "ondemand" -d "800MHz" -u ${FREQ_LIST[$1]}
function throttle {
if [ $CURRENT_FREQ -ne $((${#FREQ_LIST[@]}-1)) ]; then
let CURRENT_FREQ+=1
echo -n "throttle "
set_freq $CURRENT_FREQ
fi
function unthrottle {
if [ $CURRENT_FREQ -ne 0 ]; then
let CURRENT_FREQ-=1
echo -n "unthrottle "
set_freq $CURRENT_FREQ
fi
function get_temp {
# Get the system temperature.
# If one of these doesn't work, the try uncommenting another.
TEMP=$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp)
#TEMP=$(cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input)
#TEMP=$(cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/temp1_input)
while true; do
get_temp
if [ $TEMP -gt $MAX_TEMP ]; then # Throttle if too hot.
throttle
elif [ $TEMP -le $LOW_TEMP ]; then # Unthrottle if cool.
unthrottle
fi
sleep 3
done
Stuff that needs sudo is in my sudoers as "username hostname NOPASSWD: item1,item2,etc,etc". Nothing too exciting. Seems like if there was suddenly something wrong with my autostart file at least some of the stuff would run either way though cause of "&". Pretty puzzling this issue is.

[SOLVED] Openbox+Thunar, how to show usb devices in thunar?

Hi. I've been running a pretty standard Xfce environment for a while. When I plug in a usb drive, I get a new item pop up in the "DEVICES" section of the left panel in thunar (note, it doesn't automount the device, it just shows that it's there and only mounts it when I click on it...I like this behaviour).
Now, I'm setting up an even lighter-weight environment, just openbox and tint2 with thunar as the file manager. But when I'm logged into the openbox environment, I don't get the item in the "DEVICES" section in thunar (but it still works fine in xfce).
If it run thunar from the command line and plug in a usb drive I get this message in the terminal
(thunar:21205): thunar-WARNING **: Failed to launch the volume manager (Failed to execute child process "thunar-volman" (No such file or directory)), make sure you have the "thunar-volman" package installed.
I don't see why I would need thunar-volman if it works fine in xfce. If I install thunar-volman and do the same, I get this message
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unknown block device type.
So I'm wondering if maybe there is a daemon that is autostarted during an xfce session that makes thunar probe for devices to be plugged in or something like that. Why does it work in an xfce session, but not in an openbox session?
Last edited by Pacopag (2013-03-14 15:52:32)

Thanks for your replies.
henk: I tried installing polkit-gnome and creating the rule as per the wiki, but it didn't work. Volume detection seems to work fine in xfce without this package.
jv2112: I added udiskie to .config/openbox/autostart and it seems to work. I've had problems with udiskie in the past; it seemed to have some trouble unmounting the drives properly after a write as I would find that the newly written files were corrupt. But it seems to be working fine.
I'll mark this as solved, but I'm still curious as to how xfce-thunar is mounting the usb devices.
One clue is that with udiskie, devices get mounted to /media, whereas in xfce they get mounted to /var/run/media/username/ (or something like that).

[Solved] Trying to get conky to display hebrew right...

ok,
So i've been using ${mpd_status} to display my songs on conky. However, some of my song's names are in hebrew, and hebrew has this problem that the terminal (and conky) display it the other way around. For exaple, hebrew word abc (a,b,c are hebrew letters) are displaed cba. So, I wrote 2 scripts: One to reverse the hebrew so on the terminal it looks "ok" (If it sounds rediculus to you, that's the way we get around the hebrew problem on computers, we've been doing it since computers were invented), and another to get the song's name and feed it to the first script.
So, after all this work, I managed to make the scripts display hebrew song names on the terminal perfectly. However, conky refuses to show my song names. English eongs work fine, hebrew songs are just not displayed. This leads me to believe there's a problem. I was wondering if the kind people of the forum can help?
PS I realize this is in the gray area between programming and help. That's why I put it in here. If the admins think there's a better place for it, please move this tread, thank you.
revHebrew.py
#!/usr/bin/python
# This script takes a sentence as an argument and reverses all hebrew so it's
# displayed right in the terminal and in conky.
# USAGE: revHebrew.py [word1] [word2] [...]
import sys
ENGLISH_LETTERS = []
UPPER_CASE_START_INDEX = 65
LOWER_CASE_START_INDEX = 97
NUMBER_OF_LETTERS_IN_ENGLISH = 26
ENCODING = "utf-8"
args = sys.argv[1:]
def inEnglish(word):
letters = list(word)
for letter in letters:
if letter in ENGLISH_LETTERS:
return True
return False
def generateEnglishLetters():
global ENGLISH_LETTERS
ENGLISH_LETTERS = map(chr, range(UPPER_CASE_START_INDEX,
UPPER_CASE_START_INDEX + NUMBER_OF_LETTERS_IN_ENGLISH) +
range(LOWER_CASE_START_INDEX,LOWER_CASE_START_INDEX +
NUMBER_OF_LETTERS_IN_ENGLISH))
def reverseWord(word):
return word[::-1]
def reverseSentence(sentence):
ltrSubsentence = []
orderedSentence = []
for word in sentence:
if not inEnglish(word):
ltrSubsentence.insert(0,word)
else:
ltrSubsentence.append(word)
orderedSentence += ltrSubsentence
ltrSubsentence = []
orderedSentence += ltrSubsentence
return orderedSentence
def main():
generateEnglishLetters()
sentence = []
for word in args:
word = unicode(word, ENCODING)
if not inEnglish(word):
word = reverseWord(word)
sentence.append(word)
print u' '.join(reverseSentence(sentence))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
hebrewMPDstatus.sh
#!/bin/bash
# A script to display hebrew and english songs from MPD in the right way
# USAGE: hebrewMPDstatis.sh
Title=`sonata info | grep Title: | cut -c8-`
Artist=`sonata info | grep Artist: | cut -c9-`
Song="$Title - $Artist"
Command="python revHebrew.py ${Song}"
eval $Command
my .conkyrc
#override_utf8_locale no
format_human_readable yes
double_buffer yes
alignment top_middle
background yes
border_width 0
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
#xftfont Miriam Mono CLM:size=10
xftfont Sans:size=10
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
minimum_size 1672 0
maximum_width 1672 0
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
own_window_transparent no
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,sticky
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer yes
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no
text_buffer_size 2048
TEXT
$nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine :: ${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime :: ${color grey}Frequency:$color $freq_g GHz :: ${color grey}Processes:$color $processes ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes :: Net: Up:$color ${upspeed wlan0} ${color grey} Down:$color ${downspeed wlan0} :: ${color gray} Heat$color: Core0: ${font mpd:style=Bold:color=white:size=10}${execi 8 sensors | grep -A 1 'Core 0' | cut -c15-16 | sed '/^$/d'}C${font} Core1: ${font mpd:style=Bold:color=white:size=10}${execi 8 sensors | grep -A 1 'Core 1' | cut -c15-16 | sed '/^$/d'}C${font} temp: ${font mpd:style=Bold:color=white:size=10}${execi 8 sensors | grep -A 1 'temp1' | cut -c15-16 | sed '/^$/d'}C${font} :: ${font Miriam Mono CLM:style=Bold:size=10}${color lightblue}${execi 1 ~/hebrewMPDstatus.sh} - $mpd_status ${mpd_elapsed} ${color grey} ${mpd_bar 10}${color}
#RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4} ${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4} ${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
Additional info: Unless I made a mistike, the script's output should be utf8. I looked around and apperantly sometimes the font's at fault so I decided to try a hebrew font, but no luck.
SOLVED: Ok, solved my own problem. I saw this error:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
and decided to invastigate it. It lead me to the following page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4924 … -in-python
Basiclly turns out python's print command outputs in ASCII. I modified my main as instructed in the page, to change the default encoding to utf-8 and it did the trick!
Another thing I had to do in my .conkyrc was to set "override_utf8_locale yes" in the config. I now have working hebrew in my conky! I hope others will find this post in the future and be saved the trouble.
Last edited by Greenstuff (2010-05-29 00:06:20)

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.22
Closing

[solved] openbox: "ghost" window with bbpager

I don't really know where to report this bug as it was working fine a few days ago, so I'm just going to check if I'm the only one having problems with bbpager.
Basically, when I'm using bbpager outside of the dock/slit, everything's fine.
But when using bbpager -w, if I close everything, the last window still appears in the pager:
impossible to move it, but it's still there.
Once I open a new window, everything's working again, the "ghost" window dissapear.
Strange thing is, if I run a 2nd instance of bbpager without the "withdrawn" option, the one in the dock behaves correctly: the docked bbpager stop drawing the remaining window.
I tried with the default config files for both openbox and bbpager with no luck.
Problem is I have no idea how to check what's wrong with it, and unable to find another pager with autohiding feature (which is why I put bbpager in the dock).
Does someone has the same issue, or any idea of what I could do to solve this problem?
Thanks!
This is unrelated and solved:
Edit:
Just realised something else:
I'm using "windows" + Tab as a "Super alt-Tab", ie switching between tasks on all desktops, and not just the current one.
If I'm on a desktop with no window open, no problem, I just choose the window I want and I'm transfered to the correct desktop.
Problem is once the window gets focus, windows tab isn't working anymore: I can choose another window (I see the icons, can move between them, see the border...), but I'm not transfered to it.
It doesn't do a thing.
But if I do "show desktop" first, no problem, it's working again...
Edit2: AAAAaaaAAARRGGH! downgraded to openbox 3.4.7 fixed the "windows + Tab" issue, but not the bbpager one!!!
I'm completely clueless.
Edit3:
Just reinstalled openbox 4.3.8.
Did it with Pacman -Rns openbox + rm -r ~/.config/openbox, then pacman -S + cp /etc/xdg/openbox ~/.config , just to be sure.
Same issue with "windows tab", but... It's working with firefox, I don't know why!
I can switch between different firefox windows, even if they're on different desktops!
Last edited by Tekrotzen (2009-12-12 12:07:24)

Solved the openbox issues: installing openbox-git and modifying the new default rc.xml manually (don't use obkey as it's not working well with openbox 4.3.8), everything is working as expected.
Still, I still have the bbpager issue...
Edit:hmmm.
No idea why, but after a pacman -Scc and a new install of bbpager, no ghost window anymore...
Solved.
Last edited by Tekrotzen (2009-12-12 12:07:05)

I have a annual plan, it supposed must be used in two terminals, but i haven´t been able to install any app in a second computer, it always says that the app is only available as a trial download. What can I do to solve this issue, and be able to use my p

I have a annual plan, it supposed must be used in two terminals, but i haven´t been able to install any app in a second computer, it always says that the app is only available as a trial download. What can I do to solve this issue, and be able to use my paid plan in two computers?

Hi Susan,
Please refer to the help document to fix this issue:
Creative Cloud applications unexpectedly revert to trial mode | CS6, CCM
You may also refer to the thread as below:
creative cloud software says my free trial has expired, but I have a paid subscription
Regards,
Sheena

How to print deposit number in top margin and reset pagination eavh change

I am using Report Builder 6.0.8.27.0 against a version 10 database
I have a built a report that works properly. It consists of about 1800 mineral deposits with one main frame cycling on the mineral deposit number and the frame contains a whole bunch of repeating frames containing detail information. Each mineral deposit may be one and 20+ pages long. The report works properly but I need to make the following additions..
1) At present, the mineral deposit number is only displayed on the first page of the report 'segment'. What I would like to do is have the deposit number displayed in the top margin on each page, next to the title but I am not sure how to do this.
I began by creating a field in the top margin, but when I change the Source of the Field (in the property palette) to the deposit number (a database field) I get the following error:
REP-1213: Field 'F-1' references column MDD_NO at a frequency below its group. This is obviously because this is in the margin and the deposit number occurs within the main repeating frame.
Any suggestions how I might do this - I'm afraid I'm not terribly familiar with reports - and don't have any good reference material at my fingertips. (Only the help files and digging through them is painful - especially when one is not sure what one is looking for.)
Any help woule be appreciated.
2) I would also like to create a special page number/sequence where each deposit would have it's own set of pagination
ie.: Deposit-001 page 1
Deposit-001 page 2
etc
and then reset when the deposit number changes
Deposit-002 page 1
Deposit-002 page 2
Basically, the idea is to restart pagination at each change in deposit number and change the deposit number to the current one. Again, I don't know how to do this.
The report will appear as a large pdf - which I know has it's own pagination. The reason I want the Deposit number and it's page sequence to appear in the top margin is to make it easier for the client to identify which pages belong to which deposit when they print out and work with 4 or 5 different deposits sets at the same time.
I realize I can achieve this by printing one pdf for each deposit, but 1800 individual pdf's is a bit much. to handle.
Thanks for whatever help you can give me
Glenn

Hi,
         just populate ur eventcat like this , may be this can help u
form zf_eventcat using    p_it_eventcat type slis_t_event.
data l_eventcat type slis_alv_event.
clear l_eventcat.
*Get all the events.
call function 'REUSE_ALV_EVENTS_GET'
    exporting
      i_list_type     = 0
    importing
      et_events       = p_it_eventcat
    exceptions
      list_type_wrong = 1
      others          = 2.
if sy-subrc <> 0.
    message id sy-msgid type sy-msgty number sy-msgno
         with sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.
endif.
TOP-OF-PAGE FORM
clear l_eventcat.
read table p_it_eventcat into l_eventcat with key
                          name = slis_ev_top_of_page.
if sy-subrc = 0.
    move 'ZF_TOP_OF_PAGE' to l_eventcat-form.
    modify p_it_eventcat from l_eventcat index sy-tabix
                                         transporting form.
endif.
PF_STATUS_SET FORM
clear l_eventcat.
read table p_it_eventcat into l_eventcat with key
                          name = slis_ev_pf_status_set.
if sy-subrc = 0.
    move 'ZF_PF_STATUS_SET' to l_eventcat-form.
    modify p_it_eventcat from l_eventcat index sy-tabix
                                      transporting form.
endif.
USER_COMMAND FORM
clear l_eventcat.
read table p_it_eventcat into l_eventcat with key
                           name = slis_ev_user_command.
if sy-subrc = 0.
    move 'ZF_USER_COMMAND' to l_eventcat-form.
    modify p_it_eventcat from l_eventcat index sy-tabix
                                      transporting form.
endif.
endform.                    " zf_eventcat
reward if helpful

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