u/Logansfury

Hey everyone,

I got in a creative mood on my day off and decided to bring some of the elements of my Kubuntu KDE/Plasma 6/Wayland box to my 21.3 Mint Cinnamon desktop. Here is my conky version of the Kurve panel visualizer, and a near copy of the Panel Colorizer I use to customize my Kubuntu panel. Unfortunately it's not split into segments like on Kubuntu, but it looks nice next to the Kurve conky.

Hey Willem,

I found your DeviantArt post from 2017. By any chance do you still have this black clock?

If so may I please have the files?

Hello everyone,

I'm excited about this one!

I decided to see if it was possible to emulate the Kubuntu panel visualizer plasmoid Kurve as a large Conky that could be positioned anywhere onscreen. The answer was a hard YES :D

This is about a perfect an emulation of the plasoid effect as I can imagine. Driven by cava, it reacts to system music/sounds.

Koentje's new Spectrum Equalizer v2.2, utilizing the reflection split, and running a second conky to scroll the artist and title info.

Hello Everyone,

Here is the Grey Conky System running on my Mint 21.3 Cinnamon/Win10 Pro ASUS ROG gaming laptop.

A few different widgets: Wireless instead of wired network, Nvidia gpu widget instead of Radeon, and Battery widget.

Hey everyone,

I have been playing with Koentje's brand newly released spectrum-eq version 2.1.

Koentje and I were on my Kubuntu box together testing the eq on Wayland DE. On Kubuntu I run the Kurve plasmoid panel equalizer, and I wanted to see if I could duplicate its look on Koentje's conky.

It came out PERFECT! The Kurve is a rainbow gradient from left to right of orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and red. I had ChatGPT create a gradient overlay .lua file and it worked perfectly to emulate Kurve on the first run.

Video example below :D

I used AI to create a motorcycle dashboard image seated perspective just to incorporate Willem's awesome new .lua dial gauge conkys. Naturally because it was AI, there were realism issues. I expected this, and was happy just to have a good background to interact with the conkys.

Naturally the net lost it's fucking mind.

"AI slop" was about the kindest of the numerous comments. Undaunted, I've been running my conkys, but on a whim, I went back to google images and asked in different terms for a multi-gauge motorcycle cockpit image. To my surprise, it came up with this old BMW with 5 gauges in the cockpit. The two uppermost were offset to the left and partially overlapped and obscured by the right main gauge, so I used AI to change the perspective from the original angled shot to a straight lined up image of the seat view. I also had it move the top row of two gauges to the center to be unobscured by the right main gauge and to provide a grey gradient background instead of the busy blur that was the original background. Original pic shown here for comparison.

So aside from the edited top gauge row, this is a real bike with no meaningless cables added by AI.

Hey everyone,

I have made a 2nd column for the Grey-conky Minimalis. The widgets from top to bottom are:

Bluetooth

Mouse

Optical Drive

GMail

Network Devices

Release Info

Open Ethernet ports

Currently sandwiched between the All-text Minimalis and a full lyrics display, the configuration may get swapped about we will see.

Yesterday u/Fun-Consequences4741 posted a series of three mint wallpapers with this anime character posing/interacting with the logo.

I found these to be so beautiful, and the character's hair such a compliment to the logo colors that I couldn't resist making my own set for my system. I redid the original 3 with some slight tweaks - I found larger character images for sharper end rendering, worked some rotations in to line up reflections with the character, reposisitioned to make space for my conky, etc. I also went to image search and found 3 more nice versions of the character and made 3 additional wallpapers.

All thanks and credit goes to u/Fun-Consequences4741 who did this originally. I duplicated the processs on my own GIMP :)

I'm not into anime, I just have a few incidental characters in some of my Steampunk GUI's, but this wallpaper edit by u/Fun-Consequences4741 struck me as too beautiful not to work with.

There are 3 wallpaper edits in this series, Here is my favorite on main monitor along with my screen elements. The minimalis conky is a decade old classic, the green-conky from DeviantArt. Other elements include Gis-Weather and GCalendar Events along with Bleys 3 month .lua conky calendar colored for this GUI.

Here is a video with audio of the fuzzy-clock-vocal.

Be sure to enable sound!

As soon as I saw Willem post this gauge array I saw this GUI in my head. It took a while to fine an online AI that could generate a usable image. None of the bots can understand "5 guages" I got everything from 4 to 16. This one with 6 was the best one to work with.

What do you think Willem? I butchered your .lua into five pieces >.<

Hey everyone,

Here is my workspace 23 with a few new tweaks.

Monitor 1 is the same, on monitor 2 I have added a large version of the grey-conky's sky image conky, with text changed to NeuropolX to match the rest of the GUI. The aurora moon conky has been edited and a new .lua is in place that reads the moon's current illumination, subtracts that from 100%, then draws the remaining percentage as a shadow across the moon - emulating accurately what is happening in the night sky. Monitor 3 is Koentje's sci-fi theme featuring 3600+ frame space animation. I just went thru all the .lua files and got it activated again by removing a bad library call for conky v1.19.8.

One of my favorite workspaces, I spent a lot of time with ChatGPT creating all these space data conkys - live and accurate data, nothing fabricated for appearances!

Senendipity!

While seeking out a Space Data widget for my All-Text Minimalis Conky, The bot's first attempt turned out to be a description of a space photo. Not what I was looking for but I wanted to complete the conky. Description without image was senseless so I had the bot add code to the bash script to get the image referenced by the website, and put code in the conky config to display it.

A nice little stand alone space data conky!

My new workspace 25 with NowPlaying, Timed Lyics, and Equalizer enabled and colored for the GUI. I need to go back into the Now Playing and put a black understroke below the grey letters, but so far so good.

I have completed the All-Text Minimalis Conky :)

Final addition is Sky Events, a printout of celestial points of interest in the upcoming day's skys. I have been able to compile Word of the Day, Quote of the Day, Today's Weather, Sky Events and Tonight's Moon into one conky so that formatting between the widgets remains constant as data printout changes size. The Current Date, Current Time, and Daily Horoscope are currently individual conkys so that this array is build from 4 items. I can easily combine the 3 loose conkys into one, reducing the total item count to two, but I am striving to get it all in one conkyrc, calling upon various .lua's, python's and bash scripts.