Notices

For the one who wanted the background pic, I was trying to figure out where I got it. In doing so, I found it on several of those websites giving away "free wallpapers", and one of them had a Digitalblasphony.com watermark on it which this one doesn't have. Also I can't remember if I had to resize it or not. Anyway, in a nutshell, here is my copy of it as I put it on the N810:

http://wartstew.homelinux.net/shoals.jpg

Hopefully I have the right to distribute it. If anyone has a problem with it, please let me know and I'll happily remove it from this website.

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For the person that wanted to know if the temperature read out in something other then the temperature x 1000: Presently that is the form that the Linux Kernel gives it in from deep in the /sys folder, and I am simply printing it out. This is why I asked what language this config file was written in (perl maybe?) as in can I put in some undocumented (in conky anyway) formating commands in the config file that will fix this problem?

The better solution is to add Nokia options to the conky code (with associated documentation) and send the code back to the Authors of conky so that maybe they would make it part of an official release. This might be a nice task for the one who originally compiled conky for the N810 to attempt? My excuse for not doing it is that I've only owned my NIT for about a month now and haven't gotten around to installing the scratchbox SDK toolchain/environment on my Linux PC to compile code with yet. I'm also not much of a programmer either, but I could probably handle this.

The .conkyrc config file is a text file that uses Conky's API which is described here http://conky.sourceforge.net/documentation.html.

Yes, I did find that previously which is how I was able to produce the config file that I posted. It is just that the syntax seems slightly familiar to me as in perhaps conky just feeds the whole thing to some sort of interpreter or macro processor for parsing and formatting that has more features than is explained in conky's documentation, such as adding a fixed decimal point to a raw number and truncating it somewhere past the decimal point, maybe even doing a little arithmetic to it to convert it to arcane units of measurement for backwards nations (USA).

Both servers (sendspace and mrlanrat's) don't have the conky download any longer. I also checked the maemo garage and it isn't there either.

Where do I download this from?

My server is having some bad problems, It uses 2 HD's one for the OS and one for the data, the LVM info for the data one got erased, so the data HD is unmountable, but the data is all still there. If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know. More info here if anyone is interested: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1042456

how do i install it? when installing via Application Manager (Install from the file), it gives me "Incompatible application package" (N800, chinook).

It looks like mrlanrat is serving the file again, but if trouble persists let me know and I can host it on my server for awhile.

yes, i was able to download it, of course. i was just unable to install it via Application Manager -> Menu -> Application -> Install from the file, since when opening conky_1.5.1-1_armel.deb it gave me "Incompatible application package" error.

so, if there are any additional commands and installation tricks, which should be applied, then, please, let me know . should i install it via dpkg? apt-get? any other way?

My server is back up.

Try installing the deb with dpkg, as root "dpkg -i conky.deb"

Yes, I hesitated giving that advice hoping someone with more experience with this app would suggest it. I prefer the apt-get or dpkg solution over the "Red Pill" mode of app manager because those command line utils tend to tell you more about what the problem might be, such as incompatible or missing dependencies. I guess app manager keeps a log somewhere. Anyone knows where it is?