How to add the town name to the conky Harmattan configuration?

Question

The conky configuration Harmattan displays information about the current state of the weather but it does not display the name of the city that the weather refers to.

How can I add the name of the city as well?

Answer 1

Open the ~/.conkyrc file. This is a hidden file in your home directory. You can see the hidden files by hitting Ctrl+H.

In this file, find a line that says

# The "conditions" section of the conky #

3 lines below the above line, there's a line beginning with

${goto 46}${voffset 14}${font Droid Sans :size=12}

We will use this line later.

Make a new text file using your favorite text editor and add the following in it:

#!/bin/bash
grep "yweather:location" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "city=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*" |tr -d '\n' && echo -n " - " && grep "yweather:condition" ~/.cache/weather.xml | grep -o "text=\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "\"[^\"]*\"" | grep -o "[^\"]*"

Save the file in your home folder. I saved it in ~/.conky-weather/town_descr. Remember to mark it as executable by going to Properties->Permissions->Execute file as program.

Then go back to that line you've found into ~/.conkyrc and edit it to be like this:

${goto 46}${voffset 14}${font Droid Sans :size=11}${color1}${execi 300 ~/.conky-weather/town_descr}${font}${color}

Notice we've reduced the font side to 11 because now the town name will be displayed as well and we need more space.

Result:

Notice the "Patra - Partly Cloudy"