A New way to configure conky (osc23)

Published: May 28, 2023, 7:30 a.m.

b'Since last year\\u2019s talk i\\u2019ve been working on modernising conky\\u2019s default\\nconfig system. There are a number of reasons for doing this from being\\nable to provide a default configuration that better adapts to the system\\nhardware to making it much easier to provide a modern look and feel.\\n\\nIn this talk i\\u2019ll talk about the parts of this process that were easy\\nbecause thanks to open source someone had already written something, the\\nfrustrating parts because someone had created something really nice but\\nnot licensed it. I\\u2019ll also talk about all the unexpected detours that I\\ntook which included some lua packaging, learning to write lua bindings\\nand learning how to do proper font rendering on linux.\\n\\nI\\u2019ll also share the current progress and how you can give it a shot\\nyourself along with what still needs to be done .\\n\\nSince last year\\u2019s talk i\\u2019ve been working on modernising conky\\u2019s default\\nconfig system. There are a number of reasons for doing this from being\\nable to provide a default configuration that better adapts to the system\\nhardware to making it much easier to provide a modern look and feel.\\n\\nIn this talk i\\u2019ll talk about the parts of this process that were easy\\nbecause thanks to open source someone had already written something, the\\nfrustrating parts because someone had created something really nice but\\nnot licensed it. I\\u2019ll also talk about all the unexpected detours that I\\ntook which included some lua packaging, learning to write lua bindings\\nand learning how to do proper font rendering on linux.\\n\\nI\\u2019ll also share the current progress and how you can give it a shot\\nyourself along with what still needs to be done .\\nabout this event: https://c3voc.de'