Took a while, and some experimentation. Then had an AI do the documentation for me, since I no like typing for eternity.
FILES:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UeaxRLOK_L67NY-3hNgcFW6Cvk4hujDK?usp=drive_link
the conky grab made via a terminal command does not display it the way it appears on screen in actual screenshot of desktop.
FILES:
Playing around with Willem's recently released files :)
His frosted glass style made me think of ice so I did some edits to bring in icy blues and whites in place of the greens and green gradients.
I found a nice wallpaper of melting ice cubes, set my semi-transparent Cursor theme, my custom Transparent icons set (I have picked up a few new panel items since I last ran this set, I need to make replacements for the new icons.) The Mint-Dark-Aqua theme, and called it a GUI!
OK, changed to a translucent background coloring, 2 to be exact one for entire conky and 1 for the system info and cpu info panels. AZlso changed to no border, which I am realizing looks a lot better than with one. Also changed background, and disposed of the weather desklet from Cinnamon since it has a sizing issue.
File
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_XtaslGm61PK1RGRLo1Z5WwP-po2LXBN?usp=drive_link
OK, damn it, I finally got it. Here it is.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1x1aMKDJVBTM-kVZ9QOSroB_PvZ6ii77y?usp=drive_link
Original Conky https://github.com/wim66/conky-system
Took a nap, and because of some strange issues, I needed to go simpler again, until I finish researching. So, edited conky to just the system info you see in upper right. Literally EVERYTHING else is done now with Cinnamon Desklets.
The new "mini-conky":
Made some small tweaks to various setting to make layout more to my liking.
Screen 1 is the revised grub menu screen, Screen 2 is the revised login screen, Screen 3 is the revised home screen, and Screen 4 is the revised conky, which I spent several hours tweaking a bit most for alignment and overall size. Note the calendar area is larger than what it appears it should be because it has to compensate for changing days layout on a per month basic, and the previous iterations would not have done so.
Hello everyone,
Plex has never worked on MInt for me, so I rely on MKChromecast for casting local and networked videos to my smartTV/Surround sound bar. MKChromecast is all terminal commands however, so I went to ChatGPT and asked if we could make a GUI for it. This evolved into the full blown application I am showing here. I call it MKControl v420.
To start, has a Find button to search the home for any smart TV devices and makes a config file of what it has found in case a device is offline (it uses chromecast detection on the appropriate port to find and wake sleeping TVs)
Next is the Search button, which can navigate all local and networked drives for media. When a file is selected, the search window auto closes andd the Video File field populates with the file name. The Command field auto populates the terminal command to start the selected file. A thumbnail image of the select file appears in top right corner.
Cast sends the file to the selected TV, waking it if necessary.
+/- 60 second buttons restart the cast at the designated time. Dragging the progress thumb or clicking on the progress bar restarts the cast at the designated time.
The cast stream may be Paused and Resumed with the matching buttons. Cast may be Stopped or Restarted with the matching buttons.
The stream may be cleared, and if the stream is a movie file with chapters, the Next and Previous Chapter buttons navigate thru the movie. The current position is printed on the app as "Chapter: X of X"
The volume may be muted with the Mute button and unmuted by clicking the Mute button a second time. The Volume slider may be used to adjust the selected TV volume up and down.
There is a Pair TV button that once used, allows the app to Power Off the selected TV with the matching button.
I spent a lot of hours on this, adding feature by feature and testing and retesting that no other features broke on any edit. I am really happy with the final result!
Yeah, got kinda tired of the graphs approach, went straight data presentation.