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Some cool discoveries this weekend..
Installed Conky on my laptop and began to play around with the rc file to customise the view. For the uninformed, conky is a very lightweight system monitor. You can get my .conkyrc file from here. I would like to improvise more on that. For. e.g I dont want eth0 information to be visible when I am connected via wireless and vice versa (dynamic update is what I am looking for). If someone knows how to do it please do post in your comment.
Started using the Rufscript font released by Hiran. A neat handwriting font indeed. But for some reasons I find the font spacing between alphabets very close for me. I know Hiran from the NIT Calicut FOSSMeet events and a really enthusiastic guy. Hiran, way to go! Keep releasing such better fonts to the world. For the Ubuntu folks install the font from asomething’s PPA. For the Fedora folks, Rahul Sundaram has already packaged it and here is the review request.
I always wanted to do some note taking on pdfs and found “Xournal” interesting. Thanks to Nicholas Boichat (my senior in EPFL) for pointing it to me.
try turning on autohinting? It might make it look better.
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/10/15/tweak-your-font-rendering-for-better-appearance/
Thanks Derek. Looks much better now.
I am a fan of the dark theme until you brows the web then the contrast with white web pages hurts my eyes
One tip for doing the switching back and forth for the wifi adapter would be to build two .rc files, one for the eth0 the other for ath0 or whatever your wifi adapter becomes. Then schedule a script every 5 min or so to see what interfaces are ‘up’ (via ifconfig or route) and if the interface is different from what’s in the current .rc file, switch in the one you would like to have.
#!/bin/sh
# select an .rc file based on current interface is in use
export IFACE=`route | grep default | awk ‘{ print $8 }’ `
diff ${IFACE}concyrc .concyrc > /dev/null
if $?
then
# .concyrc is not for the current interface
cp ${IFACE}concyrc .concyrc
# if you need to restart conky with the new rc file, do so here
fi
or a variation customized for your setup. You might put the various .concyrc files in a specific subdirectory, remember to point at the correct location for the test as well.
Toss the file in your ~/bin/ or ~/scripts/ directory whichever is appropriate, test it to make sure it does what you want, and add:
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * ~/scripts/checkinterface
to your crontab file (crontab -e) and it should automatically change the interface displayed in the monitor within 5 min of switching from one interface to the other.
If you would rather not use crontab, you could also add a link to your script into the /etc/network/if-up.d/ folder. My understanding is that these scripts automatically get run as interfaces go up, but I would suggest that testing that might be worth while.
Hope this helps.
In add
Thanks for sharing your .conkyrc file
Thanks for sharing your config file