Hello all,
I have my conky displaying .png static pictures. Is it possible to also display an animated .gif?
Can anyone provide the code if so?
Thank you for reading,
Logan
Can Conky display an animated .GIF?
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- Logansfury
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Re: Can Conky display an animated .GIF?
Nope..
But if you have the animation in separate png files you can display them every update of conky so it looks like an animation.
But if you have the animation in separate png files you can display them every update of conky so it looks like an animation.
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Re: Can Conky display an animated .GIF?
Thank you for the reply. The refresh rate of conky is 1 second right?
Re: Can Conky display an animated .GIF?
update_intervalLogansfury wrote: ⤴Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:48 pmThank you for the reply. The refresh rate of conky is 1 second right?
Example of an animation. Study it..
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Re: Can Conky display an animated .GIF?
Far out! Thank youKoentje wrote: ⤴Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:02 pmupdate_intervalLogansfury wrote: ⤴Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:48 pmThank you for the reply. The refresh rate of conky is 1 second right?
Example of an animation. Study it..
animation.conky.tar.gz
Re: Can Conky display an animated .GIF?
It's whatever you set it at. It's very common to see users setting it to 1 second since we want to see interactive changes in temp or whatever various data.
That animation example you will see:
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update_interval = 0.1,
In my mind the better option is not trying to do it with conky directly. I think lua will have some support for this type of stuff, animated gif support directly, and then you can run one special config just for the lua gif support and overlay it onto/next/beside another config, or wherever you are placing it, if it's even in relation to another config output.
Re: Can Conky display an animated .GIF?
That's why i have so many conky's. Some need a short interval, some need a long interval like counting my backups.
I'm opposed to one big conky, because you want a snappy cpu bar, but all other things in that conky also run with that short interval.