bobbybakes / serene-conky

Nice and clean conky theme, made using lua and cairo

Serene-Conky

Nice and clean conky theme, made using lua, cairo and python

Requirements:

This Conky theme requires python libraries of getting the data from the web, many of them will already be installed on the system, but if they are not you can install them using the instruction given below

pip

We need a number of python libraries, first install pip

On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install pip

On Fedora

sudo yum install python-pip

If their is any problem consult their documentation

pyyaml

This package is needed for parsing yaml files

On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-yaml

On Fedora

sudo yum install python-yaml

Using pip

sudo pip install pyyaml

python-forecast.io

The python wrapper for the forecast.io api sudo pip install python-forecastio

BeautiFul Soup

For scrapping data out of html pages

For Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-bs4

Using pip

sudo pip install beautifulsoup4

lxml

For parsing html

For Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-lxml

Using pip

sudo pip install lxml

Configuration:

The main configuration is in config.yml (not complete yet)

Weather

You will need an api key from forcast.io. Go to http://https://developer.forecast.io/, register and you will see the api and the bottom of the page. Copy and paste it in the config.yml file.

We also need the latitude and longitude, for to forecast.io and search for your city. Now in the url you will see the latitude and longitude, copy and paste them in the config.yml file.

Choose the unit, for C and km/h use ca and for F and mph use us

Run

To start the theme, just go in its directory and use ./start.sh After making the files in Scripts/ and start.sh executable