Since last year’s talk i’ve been working on modernising conky’s default
config system. There are a number of reasons for doing this from being
able to provide a default configuration that better adapts to the system
hardware to making it much easier to provide a modern look and feel.
In this talk i’ll talk about the parts of this process that were easy
because thanks to open source someone had already written something, the
frustrating parts because someone had created something really nice but
not licensed it. I’ll also talk about all the unexpected detours that I
took which included some lua packaging, learning to write lua bindings
and learning how to do proper font rendering on linux.
I’ll also share the current progress and how you can give it a shot
yourself along with what still needs to be done .
Since last year’s talk i’ve been working on modernising conky’s default
config system. There are a number of reasons for doing this from being
able to provide a default configuration that better adapts to the system
hardware to making it much easier to provide a modern look and feel.
In this talk i’ll talk about the parts of this process that were easy
because thanks to open source someone had already written something, the
frustrating parts because someone had created something really nice but
not licensed it. I’ll also talk about all the unexpected detours that I
took which included some lua packaging, learning to write lua bindings
and learning how to do proper font rendering on linux.
I’ll also share the current progress and how you can give it a shot
yourself along with what still needs to be done .