Paconky
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| AUR: | 24873 |
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| Arch Forum Thread: | 68104 |
| Binary Package: | xyne-any/paconky-2.4-1-any.pkg.tar.gz |
| Manpage: | manpages/paconky |
| PKGBUILD: | pkgbuilds/paconky |
| Repos: | [xyne-any] |
| Source Package: | paconky-2.4.tar.gz |
| Taurball: | paconky.tar.gz |
| Version: | 2.4 |
About
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. Because of this, Paconky is virtually dead.
Automatic Database Updates
Paconky does not automatically update the pacman database. It is left to the user. See this post for examples of hourly cron scripts that you can use.
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])
Deprecation
I originally wrote bash-xyne-common_functions and paconky while learning Bash. They could probably be improved but even then they would be slow because Bash itself is slow. I intend to eventually rewrite paconky using perl-xyne-arch, which now contains all of the necessary functions and more, but that is far down of my agenda.
In the meantime I have posted an example script using the perl-xyne-arch backend here. Here's a screenshot: 
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