2007 January

Conky

Here’s my Conky – Thanks to m6 for passing along his files.

Necessary Files
conky-rdf.sh
emerge-progress.sh
emerge-current.sh
lastsync.pl

I’ve placed them in my ~/.conky directory.
You’ll also need to:
emerge media-fonts/terminus-font

#.conkyrc uberpenguin.net
background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Terminus:size=8
xftalpha 0.8

# MPD host/port
# mpd_host localhost
# mpd_port 6600
# mpd_password tinker_bell

mail_spool $MAIL
update_interval 5.0
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (requiblack in nautilus)
own_window no

# If own_window is yes, you [...]

How many packages?

Some people may want to find out just how many packages are on their system. I am sure there are more, here’s what I could find.
qlist -I | wc -l
emerge -p depclean
eix -I | grep matches