Re: LUG: GNOME desktop: default icon placement - Tue, 18 May 2010 11:09:52 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: GNOME desktop: default icon placement

From : Joe Bianco <3picide@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 18 May 2010 11:09:52 -0400

Well, I know conky is sensitive to newline characters and, at least,
spaces between words, so I'm led to assume it would work with spaces
at the end of lines.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Stephen Smith <smsmit18@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> I've had that problem before and I don't remember how I fixed it.
> You can try gap_x which will specify how far it is in pixels from the
> border, but that may just make it bounce around farther away.
> I don't remember if Conky is sensitive to white space, but you can try
> making one of the other lines (that is not the size changing one) long
> enough (with extra spaces) that it won't matter how much the one line
> changes. �So you get:
> line 1
> line 2
> line x (with lots and lots and lots of white space)
> longest possible display of cpu-utilization
> etc.
> You also may be able to have it chunk the name of the process to x number of
> characters, though I'm not sure how to do this either.
> Hope this helps.
> -Stephen
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Daniel Underwood
> <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>>
>> Stephen, the problem with using top_right �is that I have a line to
>> display to memory-largest process and the highest-cpu-utilizing process.
>> �When the name of these processes change, the entire conky panel moves a
>> little to accommodate. �Any ideas how to fix it?
>> --
>> Daniel Underwood
>> North Carolina State University
>> Graduate Student - Operations Research
>> email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
>> phone: XXX.302.3291
>> fax: XXX.515.5281
>> web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
>>
>
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