https://github.com/tigger04/wonky
wonky
https://github.com/tigger04/wonky
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wonky
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/tigger04/wonky
- Owner: tigger04
- Created: 2022-12-31T15:33:38.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-06-14T17:16:04.000Z (11 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-06T12:11:24.504Z (about 2 months ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 1.02 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.org
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README
#+title: wonky
A very simple alternative to conky
* Quick start
With
* Rationale
Impatience with conky's inability to handle basic unicode or emoji characters.
Most of what I want displayed is already generated by external scripts (mostly bash) and I need a simple plaintext viewer embedded in my desktop that can be periodically updated.
** Alternatives considered
*** ImageMagick
I have lived with alternative approaches, such as periodically generating a wallpaper with the text annotated via ImageMagick. However this is a bit hacky and heaavy on resources.
*** Conky
The original and best. Despite my above complaint, Conky really is the Swiss Army Knife for this kind of thing
* First stab
This is my first stab at the problem. Comments and suggestions welcome.