Greetings Conky fans.
Thanks to this thread, I found out how to use Cairo graphics with conky, and was inspired to outdo myself in conky prowess.
As a weather tragic, I have a station that beams observation data to a server, I wrote a python script to call the API and bring back the data, to display as text in Conky. This saves me from going to my weather console (or looking out the window) to see what the weather is like.
I now have modified this to show visualisations of weather data. While the basic gauge was cribbed from the internet, I had to do the gradients myself as it seems Cairo did not do gradients on an arc. The wind and rain were easy enough to do once I understood Cairo arcs.
Such gauges could be used for other CPU stats, if you love conky/lua eye candy.
The background is just a random background wallpaper, but the astronomical theme is nice when weather is the topic.
