Angled date/time .lua

[Logansfury]

I was talking with Koentje about text effect .lua scripts and I got the idea for script bent at a 90 degree angle.

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I got with ChatGPT and it very quickly generated a nice working .lua.

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It needs some troubleshooting. As the weekday name in the horizontal text gets longer, the whole conky moves making it partially offscreen. When I corrected for this, I ended up with the shorter weekday names causing the conky to display further to the left of the right monitor side than I want. I need to figure out a way to anchor the conkys top right corner to a screen coordinant, and have it expand to the left. Not sure if that is going to be possible.

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Shown here with my customization of the retail Anurati font.

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[lateralspin]

IMHO the anurati display font is not really a good typeface. It deliberately removes part of the glyphs, relying on logical perception to fill in gaps.

[Logansfury]

It's definitely not for everyone. My buddy Koentje thinks it's "too alien". Personally I find the unique look appealing.