Linux desktop

Conky fan number changed after upgrade of Arch

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I am using Arch linux for my system. This distro has a rolling release schedule. So every now and then you have to upgrade your complete system with ‘pacman -Syu’. This is always a little risky, but the advantage of running bleeding edge software, the minimalistic approach of Arch and the fact that you really install such a system only once made this one the distrohopperstopper for me. Yesterday I upgraded the system and I noticed conky wouldn’t run anymore. Running conky from the command line revealed the problem:

Conky: can't open '/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/fan1_input': No such file or directory

Looking in /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1 revealed that all my sensors where there and not in hwmon0. No idea why, but changing the line in my conkyrc to:

${font StyleBats:size=16}O${font}   CPU Fan:${alignr}${hwmon 1 fan 1} ${font}RPM

made me a happy conky user again:

Conky

Anyone knows why this happened?

Eartwallpaper revisited

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Recently I found a script written by Claudio Novais to show a nice wallpaper which displays a picture of the Earth, in real time. On my system this looks like this:

Original wallpaper

Now, I recently got this huge monitor so this didn’t look so well and I decided to change it a little. On http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/ you can find an earth and moon viewer. You can alter the image to your liking. So I created an image of 800px x 800px with a view from 35785 km above, 53°23’N and 6°E (roughly Amsterdam, The Netherlands). With ctrl-u (firefox) I looked at the source from the website and found a line like this:

/Earth?di=09523FEE4A66A46BC0364BAA5DD73780BB5E4B6C16283003C802B34399E
7DBBBBEDD58341A5839B680DEB05E0FB23713949A6000B79A9E35A8BC41D5379746

This was clearly the image I was looking at. So my wget line in the original script now looked like this:

wget http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth?di=09523FEE4A66A46BC0364BAA5DD73780BB5E4B6C16283003C802B34399E
7DBBBBEDD58341A5839B680DEB05E0FB23713949A6000B79A9E35A8BC41D5379746 
-O world.jpg

The result was quite satisfactory:

Second attempt

But with all this space left I was wondering if I could do a little better. E.g. put a view of the moon on the left side. Using the same procedure as before I found that a picture from the moon, viewed from my place (change E to W and N to S) gave me the following id:

69325F8E2A06C40BA0562BCA3DB757E0DB3421067C425A69A268D908D8A888C8CAF7
784C6E3C34F0AAD9F61851DFC7E463FA324CEA77476FF2E406A776E182D6639D0D6F

The moon is not changing every minute, so downloading it at startup would satisfy my needs. I put the following line in /etc/rc.local (I am on Arch Linux):

wget http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth?di=69325F8E2A06C40BA0562BCA3DB757E0DB3421067C425A69A268D908D
8A888C8CAF7784C6E3C34F0AAD9F61851DFC7E463FA324CEA77476FF2E406A776
E182D6639D0D6F -O /home/-username-/.gnome2/moon.jpg

And a black picture with resolution 1820*956 as background.jpg. Find the needed resolution by subtracting the border (2*50px) from your full screen. Then altered the script to use ImageMagick and blend these pictures together:

cd ~/.gnome2/
while [  1 ]; do
 COUNTER=0
 while [  $COUNTER -lt 60 ]; do
 wget http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth?di=752E4392361AD817BC4A37D621AB4BFCC72237106A544C7FB47ECF3FE5
9BA7C7C2A12448662479F4DE80EE6C08AB9EBD383FFC80379D9932AEB952C01182D
88636F85BB29877916B -O world.jpg
 composite -bordercolor black -border 50x50 moon.jpg background.jpg backgroundWithMoon.jpg
 composite -gravity center world.jpg backgroundWithMoon.jpg completeWallpaper.jpg
 temp=$(stat -c%s world.jpg)
 if [[ $temp > 1000 ]]
 then rm world_sunlight_Wallpaper.jpg
 mv completeWallpaper.jpg world_sunlight_Wallpaper.jpg
 break
 fi
 sleep 5"/span"
"span style="color:#0000ff;"" let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
 done
 sleep 900
done

The result :):

Earth an moon together