Beta release - BRAVE TESTERS WANTED!

Conky is a strong and powerful tool to watch what is going on on your system. Sadly, it is able to do a lot more than you could display at your small screen at the same time.

But now comes Conky Layout Switcher

This Application makes it possible to switch your Conky status Monitor fast and live between 4 Layouts - depending of your current use case (general, system load, Network Traffic and Disk usage)

It is made up of 3 parts:

• Statusbar Applet
  

• Configuration Application
  

• The Layouts (still in a draft state - will finish later)
  
  Layout 1 - generic
  
  
  Layout 2 - CPU
  
  
  Layout 3 - Network
  
  
  Layout 4 - Disk usage
  
  
  The 2 columns Layout Idea is based on a Layout by GaRy delaMer. Thanks a lot!

You have to enable Conky Layout Switcher first using the Setup Application. If you disable the application later your default Conky Config file is used again. (Warning: If your currently using the outdated Version 1.6.1 from conky your layout gets updated to the new one from Version 1.9.6 !) Don't forget to disable Conky Layout Switcher if you want to uninstall it. (I hope you wouldn't)

If you want to create your own Layouts that interacts with Conky Layout Switcher put your own Layouts simply at /home/user/MyDocs/ as before. Simply Name the file conkyLS.conf
Have a look at /etc/conky/conkyLS.conf how it works!

Known Issues, small drawbacks and bugs:

• [FIXED] somewhere is a ${endif} clause missing - this slows down conky a lot - I have to find it soon...
• [IMPROVED] currently very resource hungry (perhaps you shouldn't keep conky open)
• [OPTION ADDED] I have to draw all graphs in each layout to keep them updated and synchronous while not shown
• You have to deactivate Conky Layout Switcher before uninstalling - otherwiese you must simply reinstall Conky

Please note: This Application will install Conky-N900 and ttf-droid to your N900 if not already installed. But it won't touch your current *.conf files (I hope) so nothing will break. But creating a small Backup is never a bad idea.

If you are brave enough you can find this small application currently at extra devel or download it at the package page: Conky Layout Switcher

The usual warning applies: It's the first release of this Application. Perhaps there could be a lot of bugs inside. So please test it only if you know what you're doing or wait what will happen in this Thread. And don't forget to create a backup (just in case). I only want to share my little application. But I hope for a lot of positive feedback!