Oct 082007
Matthew’s post about conky got me playing with my .conkyrc again. One new feature in conky 1.4.7, which is included in Ubuntu Gutsy, is the ability to parse RSS feeds. By adding the following lines to my .conkyrc, I get feeds from Ubuntu Forums and Planet Ubuntu posted to my desktop.
${rss http://ubuntuforums.org/external.php?type=RSS2 10 feed_title}
${rss http://ubuntuforums.org/external.php?type=RSS2 10 item_titles 20}${rss http://planet.ubuntulinux.org/rss20.xml 60 feed_title}
${rss http://planet.ubuntulinux.org/rss20.xml 60 item_titles 10}
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A classmate was just showing me conky, so I’ll show him this and he’ll be amazed. Thanks for the tip!
I get the following error when i try this and then run conky
Conky: /home/cgerada/.conkyrc: 1: no such configuration: ‘${rss’
Conky: /home/cgerada/.conkyrc: 2: no such configuration: ‘${rss’
Conky: /home/cgerada/.conkyrc: 4: no such configuration: ‘${rss’
Conky: /home/cgerada/.conkyrc: 5: no such configuration: ‘${rss’
Very cool! Now I have yet another reason to get my upgrade to Gutsy on my calendar… Thanks!
Clive,
This will only work with Conky 1.4.7, are you using that version.
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