but it also failed.
I saw what looks like adesklets weather, though it might be gdesklets weather in a screenshot by lapjrns in the "Artwork" section of this forum. I was wondering anyone has built either adesklets or gdesklets weather apps. If not I would like to request either or both of these.
I know there are weather plasmoids in KDE and xfce4-weather-plugin for the XFCE panel, but it would be nice to see weather forecast eye candy on a lowres window manager .
Has anyone been able to make conkyforecast template look right? I get a garbled mess of fonts displayed when using it.
Did you use the conkyforecast package from the Salix binary repository? If you get a garbled mess of fonts displayed, that might be due to missing special fonts needed by conkyforecast. But that problem doesn't exist with my packages.
These are the fonts that were installed from the salix repo. I changed the *.otf to *.ttf because I read somewhere that it would help.
You can't just change the ending of a file. That won't convert the data stored in that file. So change it back to what it was.
Are you sure those are all fonts in that directory? Because the package management says here those files were installed:
The fonts that I originally listed were left behind when I removed ConkyForecast, probably because I had renamed them.
I re-installed ConkyForecast then ran the script
doinst() {
# Update mkfontscale and mkfontdir:
if [ -x usr/bin/mkfontdir ]; then
( cd usr/share/fonts/TTF/
mkfontscale .
mkfontdir .
)
fi
# Update the X font indexes:
if [ -x usr/bin/fc-cache ]; then
usr/bin/fc-cache -f 1>/dev/null 2>&1
fi
}
doinst
It didn't help. I also tried your template and config which yeilded a smaller, yet still garbled display.
I'll post screenshots, if it helps.
Here's a SLKBUILD to build adesklets: ftp://laprjns.com/in/adesklets/
Just download all three files ( SLKBUILD, adesklet source and the patch files) to the same directory and run
I didn't have to to fire up my 64 bit machine to build the x64 package but the slkbuild did successfully build the 32 bit package. Also didn't have time to actually install and run the package because you need to download applets and get them configured correctly.
You should also know that the project has been discontinued by the developer.
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?"
Ok, this still doesn't explain why it's not working here with 2.09 for you, because it always did here seamlessly. The reason why I didn't anymore update the package is because I wasn't anymore able to locate any new releases. Just a development repository on launchpad.
But after some more searching around right now and confirming that the launchpad web ui sucks, I was able to acquire a link to a recent release. I'm sparing the details, because they would turn anybody's guts inside out.
Finally I can update the package. It would be great if you could test that build too.
I used the "fontbased" for my screenshot. The other configs don't work. The display that they yield looks pretty much like the garbled template and standard output screenshot in my other post.
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