Dzen2 config files (ARCH/XFCE)

Disclaimer:	Use my files at your own risk!

strangeWORLD

• PREREQUISITES
• INSTALLATION

PREREQUISITES

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1. CPU Temperature

$ sudo pacman -S i2c-tools
$ sudo sensors-detect       # Answer 'y' on every question
$ sensors

2. Battery state

$ sudo pacman -S acpi
$ acpi -V

3. Wget tool

$ sudo pacman -S wget

4. Checking current keayboard layout in use

$ yaourt -S xkblayout-state

5. Install calculator

$ sudo pacman -S bc

6. Install JSON parsers

6.1. Install jq parser - http://stedolan.github.io/jq/ (read the Install file in folder jq-JSON-parser)

6.2. Insall jshon parser

$ sudo pacman -S jshon

7. Install dropbox-cli

$  yaourt -S dropbox-cli

8. Weather Forecast

In order to obtain an API key you have to create your own account on https://developer.forecast.io/ (it's free, and the first 1000 calls per day are free, which is plenty as for me) Read through their documentation in order to get the url with json queries that you want. For exapmle, my url contains queries which enable Celsius degrees units=si and exclude "hourly" and "flags" data blocks exclude=hourly,flags:

    https://api.forecast.io/forecast/API_KEY/LATITUDE,LONGITUDE?units=si&exclude=hourly,flags

9. Fonts

You can find them in Fonts directory:

• FontAwesome (http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/)
• Ionicons (http://ionicons.com/)
• Typicons (http://www.typicons.com/)
• Weather Icons (https://github.com/erikflowers/weather-icons)

Note!

If you want to download the latest version of Ionicons font from the official website there will be no Pacman and Arch icons. The Fonts directory contains the patched version of this font with previously mentioned icons.

INSTALLATION

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1. Install dzen2

$ sudo pacman -S dzen2

2. Place your Dzen2 folder into your /home/username/ directory

3. Make all .sh files executable

$ cd ~/Dzen2/dzen-configs/strangeWORLD
$ sudo cp dzen_start /bin/
$ sudo chmod +x *.sh
$ sudo chmod +x /bin/dzen_start

4. Edit .conkyrcdzen1 file

Gmail Account

Find the line Upload and parse gmail info

    ${execi 60 curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" -o ~/.cache/gmail.xml && xmllint --format ~/.cache/gmail.xml > ~/.cache/gmailParsed.xml}

Change username:password respectively.

Weather Forecast

1. Find the line Upload and parse weather info

    ${execi 900 curl -X GET --silent "https://api.forecast.io/forecast/API_KEY/LATITUDE,LONGITUDE" > ~/.cache/Forecast.json}
   

You need to replcase API_KEY and LATITUDE,LONGITUDE fields.

4. Starting dzen2

Manually start

$ dzen_start

Manually stop

$ killall dzen2

Automatically on boot (FOR XFCE USERS)

Settings Manager >> Session and Startup >> Application Autostart >> Add

Command: /bin/dzen_start