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Authors: Mark Buck (Kaivalagi) <m_buck@hotmail.com>, Terry (VastOne) <vastone@gmail.com>
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It is expected that the user is already familiar with Conky.
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Any conky specific help can be found by either visiting the conky website here:
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http://conky.sourceforge.net
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Alternatively there is a large user base, various helpful posts are available
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at http://www.ubuntuforums.org
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For example, to see various incarnations of conky setups, or to ask technical
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questions you could go here:
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Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865
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If you are not familiar with conky there is help available here:
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HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=867076
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In the /usr/share/conkyclementine/example folder you'll find 2 files, conkyrc and
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conkyclementine.template
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Conky can be run using these example files as follows:
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conky -c /usr/share/conkyclementine/example/conkyrc &
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Make sure Clementine is running first...
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A break down of all the options available are below. The same details can be
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found by running conkyClementine --help
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Usage: conkyClementine [options]
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-h, --help show this help message and exit
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-t FILE, --template=FILE
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define a template file to generate output in one call.
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A displayable item in the file is in the form
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[--datatype=TI]. The following are possible options
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within each item: --datatype,--ratingchar. Note that
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the short forms of the options are not currently
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supported! None of these options are applicable at
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command line when using templates.
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-d DATATYPE, --datatype=DATATYPE
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[default: TI] The data type options are: ST (status),
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CA (coverart), TI (title), AL (album), AR (artist), GE
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(genre), YR (year), TN (track number), FN (file name),
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BR (bitrate k/s), LE (length), PP (current position in
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percent), PT (current position in time), VO (volume),
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RT (rating). Not applicable at command line when using
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-c PATH, --coverartpath=PATH
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[default: /tmp/cover] The file where coverart gets
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copied to if found when using the --datatype=CA
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option. Note that if set to an empty string i.e. ""
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the original file path is provided for the coverart
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-r CHAR, --ratingchar=CHAR
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[default: *] The output character for the ratings
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scale. Command line option overridden if used in
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-s TEXT, --statustext=TEXT
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[default: Playing,Paused,Stopped] The text must be
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comma delimited in the form 'A,B,C'. Command line
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option overridden if used in templates.
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Turn off unknown output such as "Unknown" for title
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and "0:00" for length. Command line option overridden
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-S, --secondsoutput Force all position and length output to be in seconds
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-m LENGTH, --maxlength=LENGTH
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[default: 0] Define the maximum length of any
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datatypes output, if truncated the output ends in
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-v, --verbose Request verbose output, not a good idea when running
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-V, --version Displays the version of the script.
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--errorlogfile=FILE If a filepath is set, the script appends errors to the
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--infologfile=FILE If a filepath is set, the script appends info to the
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A template file is included in the example files and there are also details on
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the template option in the command options listed above.
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Note that you can combine standard font output with other fonts in a single
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template, but must use execp or execpi conky commands to do so.
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Please take a look at the example template provided. You will see that anything
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inside the square brackets are options, anything outside standard text that will
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be output as conky would normally handle it.
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If you have an issue and are not sure, try running the same command in the
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terminal window and add the option --verbose, you should then see lots of
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information about what the script is doing, any warnings or errors should also
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If after doing the above you are still stuck, further help can be found by
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visiting this thread on ubuntuforums.org:
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Conky Clementine Python Script
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=????????
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Note that it is best to post --verbose output of your script call, as well as
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the conkyrc you are using. This way the issue can be understood quickly and