README.md

@@ -4,14 +4,34 @@ root window (mostly I only see one window taking up the entire screen, with a
 dmenu at the top, and another dmenu at the bottom that runs conky).  I run conky
 in CLI mode only, and that's good enough for me.
 
-I pipe the output of conky through dmenu, which upates every second.  I also
+I pipe the output of conky through dmenu, which upates every two seconds.  I
-have custom formatting functions (see scripts.lua in this repository).  This
+also have custom formatting functions (see scripts.lua in this repository).
-ensures the output of conky has the same length, even if certain fields within
+This ensures the output of conky has the same length, even if certain fields
-the string change.  This is especially useful for the network bandwidth output,
+within the string change.  This is especially useful for the network bandwidth
-which otherwise change length every two seconds as the bandwidth usage
+output, which otherwise change length every two seconds as the bandwidth usage
 fluctuates between bytes (B), Kilobytes (KiB), and Megabytes (MiB).
 
-I have implemented `conky_printf`, a generalized function for printing conky
+TODO:  My formatting function needs to be generalized.  Essentially, I'm
-data to the output string.  It needs more testing, as I'm sure there are edge
+creating a conky-specific printf function. Right now, it's split into two
-cases where it doesn't work properly.  
+functions, with calls to the Lua string.format function.  One function takes
+only one format specifier, and the other takes two.  
 
+The `fmt()` function takes the format string, and expects a single numerical
+second argument.  If the format string contains any format specifiers (see `man
+sprintf` for details) that aren't numbers (e.g. `%s` for strings), fmt() will
+fail with an error.  I use this for the percentages of RAM, Swap, and CPU in
+use.
+
+The `fmt2()` function takes the format string, and expects two string arguments.
+It is not necessarily an error if either or both of the arguments are numbers,
+they will be cast to strings.  I use this function to format the bandwidth
+("Net:") display in conky, so the length of this segment doesn't shift around
+(the Unicode arrow icons for up and down bandwidth stay in the same place).  
+
+Ideally these two functions would be combined into a `"conky_printf` function,
+that could take an arbitrary format string with any number of format
+specifiers, with the requisite number of numerical or string arguments.  I know
+how to do this with the `...`/`arg`/`unpack(arg)` table specification in Lua,
+but numeric specifiers need to convert any strings passed to the function to
+numeric values instead of strings.  This is the challenging part, but should be
+doable.

conky.conf

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 -- Please see LICENSE for details
 
--- Copyright (c) 2021 Trey Blancher
+-- Copyright (c) 2020-10-23 Trey Blancher
 
 -- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 -- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -32,24 +32,18 @@ conky.config = {
 	no_buffers = true,
 	update_interval = 1.0,
 	uppercase = false,
-	use_spacer = "none",
+	use_spacer = 'right',
     pad_percents = 3,
     short_units = false,
 };
 
-conky.text = [[\
+conky.text = 
-${lua_parse printf %-20s ${nodename_short}} \
+[[\
 RAM:${lua_parse printf %3.0f%% ${memperc}} \
 Swap:${lua_parse printf %3.0f%% ${swapperc}} \
 CPU:${lua_parse printf %3.0f%% ${cpu cpu0}} \
-/ ${lua_parse printf %10s/%10s ${fs_used /} ${fs_size /}} \
+/ ${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} \
 ${loadavg} \
-${lua_parse printf %-20s ${top name 1}} \
+${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1} \
-${lua_parse printf %8d ${top pid 1}} \
-${lua_parse printf %6.2f ${top cpu 1}} \
-${lua_parse printf %6.2f ${top mem 1}} \
 Net: ${lua_parse printf %10s▲%10s▼ ${upspeed wlp4s0} ${downspeed wlp4s0}} \
-${exec ~/bin/core_temp.sh}${lua_parse printf %9s ${exec ~/bin/core_temp.sh -t}}^fg(\#ebdbb2) \
-${exec ~/bin/nvme_temp.sh}${lua_parse printf %9s ${exec ~/bin/nvme_temp.sh -t}}^fg(\#ebdbb2) \
-${exec ~/bin/virt_temp.sh}${lua_parse printf %9s ${exec ~/bin/virt_temp.sh -t}}^fg(\#ebdbb2) \
 ]];

core_temp.sh

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/zsh
-temp=$(sensors | grep 'Package id' | awk '{print $4}')
-
-if [[ "${1}" == "-t" ]]; then
-    shift
-    echo -n "${temp}"
-else
-    val=$(grep -Po '[\d.]+' <<< ${temp})
-
-
-    if [[ ${val} -le 30.0 ]]; then
-        printf "^fg(#0000cc)"
-    elif [[ ${val} -le 60.0 ]]; then
-        printf "^fg(#cc7700)"
-    elif [[ ${val} -gt 60.0 ]]; then
-        printf "^fg(#cc0000)"
-    fi
-fi

nvme_temp.sh

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/zsh
-temp=$(sensors nvme-pci-3e00 | grep Composite | awk '{print $2}')
-
-if [[ "${1}" == "-t" ]]; then
-    shift
-    echo -n "${temp}"
-else
-    val=$(grep -Po '[\d.]+' <<< ${temp})
-
-    if [[ ${val} -le 30.0 ]]; then
-        printf "^fg(#0000cc)"
-    elif [[ ${val} -le 60.0 ]]; then
-        printf "^fg(#cc7700)"
-    elif [[ ${val} -gt 60.0 ]]; then
-        printf "^fg(#cc0000)"
-    fi
-fi

scripts.lua

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ function split_fmt(f)
                 in_spec = false
                 curr = ""
             elseif string.match(char, '[qs]') then
-                if string.match(curr, '^%%%-?[0-9]*$') then
+                if string.match(curr, '^%%[0-9]*$') then
                     curr = curr .. char
                     table.insert(ret, curr)
                     in_spec = false
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ function split_fmt(f)
                     io.stderr:write("Invalid format:  '" .. curr .. char .. "'\n")
                     return nil
                 end
-            elseif string.match(char, '[0-9%.%-]') then
+            elseif string.match(char, '[0-9%.]') then
                 curr = curr .. char
             elseif string.match(char, '%%') then
                 if string.match(curr, '^%%') then
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ function conky_printf(format, ...)
     end
     for i,fs in ipairs(formats) do
         if is_fmt_spec(fs) then -- we have a format specifier
-            if string.match(fs, '[cdEefgiouXx]$') then -- we have a numeric format specifier, convert value to number
+            if string.match(fs, '[dEefgiouXx]$') then -- we have a numeric format specifier, convert value to number
                 parsed_values[i] = tonumber(trim((parsed_values[i])))
             end
         end

virt_temp.sh

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/zsh
-
-#!/bin/zsh
-temp=$(sensors pch_skylake-virtual-0 | grep temp1 | awk '{print $2}')
-
-if [[ "${1}" == "-t" ]]; then
-    shift
-    echo -n "${temp}"
-else
-    val=$(grep -Po '[\d.]+' <<< ${temp})
-
-    if [[ ${val} -le 30.0 ]]; then
-        printf "^fg(#0000cc)"
-    elif [[ ${val} -le 60.0 ]]; then
-        printf "^fg(#cc7700)"
-    elif [[ ${val} -gt 60.0 ]]; then
-        printf "^fg(#cc0000)"
-    fi
-fi