Conky Tool (Utilise Conky), is a program I decided to put together to try to help make the process of making a conky file easier for everyone. It isn't like conky manager, it essentially is a text editor, with syntax highlighting that has the entire catalogue of definitions built in, and ready to add at the push of a button. It has a long way to go, but I am looking for brave testers :).
Contact Information
Facebook group for questions and answers is https://www.facebook.com/groups/666099570622915
My email is skytale75@yandex.com, if you have any issues installing this, please let me know, and paste any output that may result in the terminal window into the file. I am confident it will launch.
Current Program Status
finished all the basics
what you will be testing is not the finished product. There are many more functions to add. This is simply the minimal I was willing to do before I would allow it to be tested.
The Syntax highlighting is complete. The entire wiki reference of command definitions is integrated and comes up automatically as you are scrolling through them. You have simple control-click functionality. There are very few keyboard commands in reality, I think 8.
I won't tell you what is to come, first i need to determine what you like and don't like about my program. Again, this is not intended to write your file for you, but make it as easy as possible for you to write your own file.
Every graphical eliment on the main window has a help file. All you need to do to open it is press 'Controll + h'.
required packages
with apt . . .
sudo apt install python3-tk python3-pil python3-pil.imagetk git
with pacman
sudo pacman -S git sudo pacman -S tk
with yum
sudo yum install git sudo yum install python36u-tkinter
Download (Clone repository)
everyone should have git, if you don't you can install it in your terminal . . . "sudo apt install git" and so on . . .
after you install . . . continue . .
open terminal in home directory, copy/paste next line into terminal and press enter.
git clone https://github.com/skytale75/Conky_Tool.git
pip3 install tkcolorpicker
install
- Copy and paste the following line into your terminal and press 'Enter'.
sudo python3 ~/Conky_Tool/setup.py
- Run, type 'utilise' in the terminal and press enter.
updates as of May 20, 2020
- Changed font selection . . . *
- Fixed theme issues, they weren't saving properly.
Things to come
Will add font fields similar to the "color management" window that will automatically load the font aliases into the appropriate fields. Will also add a text box to display fonts in use that aren't set toan alias for older versions of conky.
Update February 16th 2021
Decided to start working on the program again . . . if I am making it just for me that is fine lol.
added tkcolorpicker to the file since it is difficult to find in some cases . . .