Thread: [Updated May 23] Conky 1.9.7 n900 edition
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2010-10-29 , 22:36
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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
mrsellout: Right now, you need to manually enable Conky's rotation. My .conf file switches layouts depending on device orientation, so that you get a portrait mode-compatible layout when conky is rotated. However, I don't yet know how to enable rotation the moment conky is launched from a command I could run from within Conky.
The way I do it is I have shortcutd installed, and I have short-half-press of camera key set to toggle rotation. So when I want to use conky in portrait mode, I just press that. And then Conky itself is rotated along with the layout change. Alternatively, I believe the key combination ctrl+shift+r turns on rotation too.

I'm going to try to get this to be run from-config-file once upon Conky start hopefully within a day or two. When I make progress again I'll post another conf file.[/QUOTE]

Right I forgot about that. One way round it would be to borrow could from other apps that use portrait & landscape mode. Forgive me I'm no programmer, but I'm going to look into the Qt tutorials, or maybe Filebox's source code to see how they do it. Maybe we could get fullscreen mode as well for a bit more real estate.

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
At any rate, I'm glad you liked it. Also, you may be able to avoid the need to copy and paste the conf file's contents into a blank file if you download directly from the N900. I saved it, renamed it, and uploaded it, from the N900, and will probably continue doing so, so you may be able to avoid whatever openings/saving/renaming it in Windows causes.
Strangely that's how I did do it, Anyway got it working now.
 

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