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As I understand, conky_update reloads the whole conky window every time. So, if I have rss fetching there and some scripts running they all rerun every few seconds. Is this right? Can I make the rss fetching part be very infrequent (say, every 10 hours), but other parts with few-seconds updating?

Relevant part from my .conkyrc:

update_interval 2.0

TEXT
${if_match ${desktop_number}==4}
${font GE Inspira:size=12}${color White}${alignc}Recent Blog Posts${color}${font}
${color White}${hr 1}${color}
${execp python ~/Documents/rss.py}
${color White}${hr 1}${color}
${endif}

rss.py merely scans an rss feed and gets blog post titles & dates from it.

sashkello
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  • Related: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86222/application-displaying-latest-blog-posts-on-desktop/86226#86226 – slm Sep 01 '13 at 13:37

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As the conky documentation notes, there is a rss variable that defaults to a 15 minute interval for checking feeds:

Download and parse RSS feeds. The interval may be a floating point value greater than 0, otherwise defaults to 15 minutes. Action may be one of the following: feed_title, item_title (with num par), item_desc (with num par) and item_titles (when using this action and spaces_in_front is given conky places that many spaces in front of each item). This object is threaded, and once a thread is created it can't be explicitly destroyed. One thread will run for each URI specified. You can use any protocol that Curl supports.

The Arch Wiki has an example:

${rss https://planet.archlinux.org/rss20.xml 1 item_titles 10 }

Where the 1 is a one-minute interval and 10 of the most recent updates are displayed.

If you intend on using a custom script, then there is a conky variable that supports an independent interval, execpi:

Same as execp but with specific interval. Interval can't be less than update_interval in configuration. Note that the output from the $execpi command is still parsed and evaluated at every interval.
jasonwryan
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