{"guid":"XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ","title":"A New way to configure conky","subtitle":null,"slug":"4205-a-new-way-to-configure-conky","link":"https://c3voc.de","description":"Since last year’s talk i’ve been working on modernising conky’s 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’ll 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’ll 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’ll 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’s talk i’ve been working on modernising conky’s 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’ll 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’ll 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’ll also share the current progress and how you can give it a shot\nyourself along with what still needs to be done .","original_language":"eng","persons":["Simon Lees"],"view_count":39,"promoted":false,"date":"2023-05-28T09:30:00.000+02:00","release_date":"2023-07-13T00:00:00.000+02:00","updated_at":"2026-02-19T22:45:07.764+01:00","tags":["osc23","4205","2023","Open Source"],"length":842,"duration":842,"thumb_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/osc/2023/4205-XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ.jpg","poster_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/osc/2023/4205-XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ_preview.jpg","timeline_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/osc/2023/4205-XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ.timeline.jpg","thumbnails_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/osc/2023/4205-XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ.thumbnails.vtt","frontend_link":"https://media.ccc.de/v/4205-a-new-way-to-configure-conky","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ","conference_title":"openSUSE Conference 2023","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/osc23","related":[],"recordings":[{"size":12,"length":842,"mime_type":"audio/mpeg","language":"eng","filename":"osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_mp3.mp3","state":"new","folder":"mp3","high_quality":false,"width":0,"height":0,"updated_at":"2023-07-13T12:07:42.181+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/osc/2023/mp3/osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_mp3.mp3","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/67975","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/osc23"},{"size":21,"length":842,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng","filename":"osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_sd.mp4","state":"new","folder":"h264-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2023-07-13T11:57:03.052+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/osc/2023/h264-sd/osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_sd.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/67972","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/osc23"},{"size":61,"length":842,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng","filename":"osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_webm-hd.webm","state":"new","folder":"webm-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2023-07-13T11:55:04.490+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/osc/2023/webm-hd/osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_webm-hd.webm","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/67971","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/osc23"},{"size":8,"length":842,"mime_type":"audio/opus","language":"eng","filename":"osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_opus.opus","state":"new","folder":"opus","high_quality":false,"width":0,"height":0,"updated_at":"2023-07-13T11:28:02.530+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/osc/2023/opus/osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_opus.opus","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/67969","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/osc23"},{"size":28,"length":842,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng","filename":"osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_webm-sd.webm","state":"new","folder":"webm-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2023-07-13T11:27:03.271+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/osc/2023/webm-sd/osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_webm-sd.webm","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/67968","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/osc23"},{"size":50,"length":842,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng","filename":"osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_hd.mp4","state":"new","folder":"h264-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2023-07-13T10:25:39.352+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/osc/2023/h264-hd/osc23-4205-eng-A_New_way_to_configure_conky_hd.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/67957","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/XF6aTox2EYN2BwDIMXEsWQ","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/osc23"}]}