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The numerals scaled off the cell but the date block sat at a fixed drop
below them, so a tall cell left a dead band under the date and a short
one would have collided. Now the date pins to the bottom edge, the
numerals take everything above it, and both type sizes derive from the
width, so the slack of a tall cell falls in the middle of the card where
it belongs.
Type scales off width for the same reason the weather card does: height
is what changes when a row is added to the grid, and a widget that
shrinks its text whenever its cell gets shorter reads as broken next to
its neighbours.
Checked at 1x3, 1x6, 2x2, 2x4 and 3x3 on an 8x6 grid before restarting
conky. The 1x6 case stays width-bound and leaves room below the
numerals, which is correct for a cell far taller than it is wide.
The README now states the convention, since it applies to every widget
added later: derive offsets from the rect, scale off width, decide where
the slack goes, and drop an element that would otherwise overlap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The grid was 4x2, which made every placement decision a coarse one. 8x6
gives 299x157 cells, so a card can be sized in something closer to the
increments the layout actually wants. Nothing in rect_for needed
changing: it derives cell size from COLS and ROWS, so this is a
two-number edit.
Note that ROWS has to cover the tallest row in use. A widget placed on
row 3 of a two-row grid is computed at y=1068 on a 1080px screen and
draws off the bottom, silently.
The arc band no longer has a minimum height. It had one, and in a cell
40px shorter than the content wanted, the minimum won and pulled the
curve up through the stat rows, drawing the sunrise time across the word
WIND. It now takes what is genuinely left and is skipped below the
height where it could be read, so the same widget composes in a 2x2 or a
2x3 cell without overlapping anything. Checked by rendering the widget
offscreen at 2x1, 2x2 and 2x3 before restarting conky.
Layout is now a 1x3 clock with a 2x3 weather card beneath it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Placement is column 1 row 2, directly beneath the clock, which drops to
a single-row cell to make room.
The card's type now scales off the cell WIDTH rather than its height.
Scaling off height meant the text shrank every time the cell got
shorter, and beside the clock's numerals the card read as a whisper.
Width is the stable dimension for this layout and is what constrains the
text anyway, since the stat rows run edge to edge.
Verified against the live dashboard, not only the offscreen render: the
two disagreed about type size precisely because the offscreen harness
was cropped to the card and never showed it next to the clock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The first draft placed every band at a fixed pixel offset and let the
arc absorb whatever height was left. In a 1x2 cell on this monitor that
is 794px of arc: a cathedral arch under a fifth of a card of content,
nothing like the mockup it was shaped after.
Three changes, all visible in an offscreen render of the real widget:
- Type sizes and band offsets scale with the rect, within clamps, so the
proportions hold on the 1920 monitor as well as this one.
- The arc gets a bounded band that follows the stats instead of being
pinned to the bottom, so no dead strip opens between them.
- The layout gives the widget a 1x1 cell. Its content is about 350px
tall and a full-height cell cannot be filled without inventing data.
Found before restarting conky by loading conky's own cairo bindings
standalone and rendering the widget to a PNG, which is a far tighter
loop than install, restart, switch workspace, screenshot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Draws current conditions plus a sunrise-to-sunset arc in widgets/weather.lua,
placed at col 2 in dashboard.lua's layout. Schedules the periodic fetch via
execi in conky.conf.in, tying refresh to conky's own lifecycle.
The no-data env-file probe now closes its handle explicitly: the branch reruns
every draw until a fetch succeeds, so an unclosed io.open there would leak one
handle per frame.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The date rendered as "16 /SEP /2026", each slash jammed against the
next glyph. measure() returns the ink width, which ignores leading and
trailing spaces because a space carries no ink, and clock.lua was using
it to advance a cursor. Measured: " / " covers 6px of ink but advances
14px, so every separator lost 8px.
Splits the two uses that were conflated in one function. measure() is
for centring and right-aligning, where ink width is what you want;
advance() returns x_advance and is for laying out runs of text left to
right. The clock's date now uses advance() and reads "16 / SEP / 2026"
with even gaps, verified by screenshot.
Worth the split rather than changing measure() in place: text_right is
a correct caller of the ink width, so one function cannot serve both
and silently returning the advance would have broken alignment
instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hour stacked over minute in Noto Sans Black, weekday in caps, date
slashed, following idea2.png. Colours are the palette's.
Numeral size derives from the cell rather than a constant, so the same
widget fills its cell on either monitor. The slashes take the dimmer
label colour so the numerals read first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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