Polaroid Conky

napcok · February 25, 2024, 10:47pm

This is eye-candy Conky showing last used wallpapers.
Two files:

Polaroid_mbcolor.conkyrc - save it to ~/.config/conky directory

conky.config = {
-- WINDOW
	own_window = true,
	own_window_type = 'desktop',
	own_window_transparent = true,
	own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,sticky',
	own_window_colour = '#020201',
	own_window_class = 'Conky',
	own_window_title = 'Mabox Polaroid Widget',
    
    alignment = 'top_left',
	gap_x = 132,
	gap_y = 817,
	minimum_width = 333,
    minimum_height = 280,

-- FONTS
	use_xft = true,
	xftalpha = 1,
	override_utf8_locale = true,

-- COLORS
	draw_shades = false,
	default_shade_color = '#000000',
	draw_outline = false,
	default_outline_color = '#222222',

	default_color = '#e9e9e8',
	

-- BORDERS
	draw_borders = false,
-- Stippled borders?
	stippled_borders = 1,
-- border margins
	border_inner_margin = 0,
	border_outer_margin = 0,
-- border width
	border_width = 0,

-- MISC
-- Boolean value, if true, Conky will be forked to background when started.
	background = true,

-- Adds spaces around certain objects to stop them from moving other things
-- around, this only helps if you are using a mono font
-- Options: right, left or none
	use_spacer = 'none',

-- Subtract (file system) buffers from used memory?
	no_buffers = true,

-- Imlib2 image cache size, in bytes. Default 4MiB Increase this value if you use
-- $image lots. Set to 0 to disable the image cache.
	imlib_cache_size = 0,

-- Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker)
-- It is highly recommended to use own window with this one
-- so double buffer won't be so big.
	double_buffer = true,
	update_interval = 1,
};

conky.text = [[
${execpi 30 ~/.config/conky/menuscripts/polaroid}
]];

and script… save it as polaroid into ~/.config/conky/menuscripts directory

#!/bin/bash
# polaroid  conky script

WHISTORY="$HOME/.cache/colorizer/.wallpaper_history"
THUMBDIR="$HOME/.cache/colorizer/thumbs"
mkdir -p ${THUMBDIR}/polaroid
mapfile -t < <(tail -n 5 "${WHISTORY}"|tac)

for i in ${MAPFILE[@]}; do
    NAME=${i////_}
    if [[ "${NAME}" =~ ^_home_.* ]]; then
        n=${#HOME}
        ((n++))
        NAME=${NAME:${n}}
    fi
    pol+=("${NAME}")
    if [[ ! -f "${THUMBDIR}/polaroid/${NAME}.png" ]]; then
    ##polaroid
    magick ${THUMBDIR}/${NAME}.png -bordercolor white -background black +polaroid /tmp/polaroid.png
    convert /tmp/polaroid.png -gravity center -background transparent -extent 333x240  ${THUMBDIR}/polaroid/${NAME}.png
    rm /tmp/polaroid.png
    fi
done

printf "\${image ${THUMBDIR}/polaroid/${pol[1]}.png -p 0,0 -s 333x240}"
printf "\${image ${THUMBDIR}/polaroid/${pol[2]}.png -p 0,140 -s 166x120}"
printf "\${image ${THUMBDIR}/polaroid/${pol[3]}.png -p 83,160 -s 166x120}"
printf "\${image ${THUMBDIR}/polaroid/${pol[4]}.png -p 166,120 -s 166x120}"

Make script executable:

chmod +x ~/.config/conky/menuscripts/polaroid

And start it from Colorizer → Conky → …click to start

It will be included by default with the upcoming next major Mabox release - Jaskier

A notes to myself
1.Some right click context menu positions make no sense for such Conky - like Font, Shadow, outline etc. - I have to write some logic to not show them.
2. polaroid script should check if wallapaper was changed and do the work only if changed since last run