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Deprecation

I originally wrote bash-xyne-common_functions and paconky while learning Bash. They could be improved but even then they would be slow because Bash itself is slow.

Paconky might still work, but it has been deprecated in favor of scripts using pyalpm and python-aur. See paconky.py for an example replacement script.

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Paconky displays repo and AUR package information in conky and can be configured using a template file. Please read the man page.

Paconky is written in Bash and is thus quite slow (so don't set the refresh interval to something insanely low... there would be no point anyway. It could probably be improved but I will probably re-implement it in Perl using the modules in perl-xyne-common. See below.

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Automatic Database Updates

Paconky does not automatically update the pacman database. This is left to the user and can easily be done by placing the following script in /etc/cron.hourly:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/pacman -Sy >/dev/null 2>&1

Warning! This can cause problems in some special cases when installing a package without first upgrading the system. See here for a discussion about this issue.

Text Buffer Size

If you see formatting characters in the output or if the list is shorter than it should be, increase Conky's text_buffer_size. ((related post)[http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=770342#p770342])