Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[dmillerct]

wow... this thread is going longer and longer and its hard to read all of it or even search.

i used to run conky on hardy and now im on karmic and i kinda miss the conky on my desktop. but conky community really grew. there are really good stuff that i dont get right now.

can you point me in the right direction on how to add a image on a conky?

Pretty much everything you are going to need to know about conky can be found on Conky Hardcore located here

To use an image in cokny you need to be at least running 1.7.1.1 if I remember correctly. 1.7.2 is in the karmic repos and should suit you just fine.

To use the image variable see the below example:

${image ~/path/to/image.jpg -PxP -SxS}

where "P" equals position (X and Y) and "S" equals size in pixels.

If you have any other questions post them in this thread. We are here to help.

EDIT: Looks like I made a small error in the code I gave you. Thanks to Bruce for pointing it out for me.

It should read as follows:

${image ~/path/to/image.jpg -p 00,00 -s 00x00}

[Bruce M.]

It looks like your graphs and bars may be doing it... your cpugraph has no size attributes

Without specifying a size the graphs will not cause conky to widen they will just goto the edges, no farther.

Have a nice day.
Bruce

[Bruce M.]

Anyone know how to line this up to where it will cut text off the Process name instead of moving it over and making it all out of whack?

you could use goto's. read this.

Yes, that link explains the that with pad_percents 2 above TEXT the values will have 2 decimal points and the ${goto xx} will act on the decimal point.

However there is another command that Jackzor needs:

top_name_width

Width for $top name value (defaults to 15 characters).

ie:

top_name_width 7
TEXT

... will limit the processes names to 7 characters allowing for exact spacing with goto's.

See attached.

Have a nice day.
Bruce

EDIT: Looks like a GREAT addition to that page.
THANK YOU, Jackzor & djyoung4, for making me aware of this fault

Page updated at the bottom: ${goto}, ${offset} & ${voffset} and again THANK YOU guys.

[djyoung4]

Yes, that link explains the that with pad_percents 2 above TEXT the values will have 2 decimal points and the ${goto xx} will act on the decimal point.

However there is another command that Jackzor needs:



ie:

top_name_width 7
TEXT

... will limit the processes names to 7 characters allowing for exact spacing with goto's.

See attached.

Have a nice day.
Bruce

EDIT: Looks like a GREAT addition to that page.
THANK YOU, Jackzor & djyoung4, for making me aware of this fault

Page updated at the bottom: ${goto}, ${offset} & ${voffset} and again THANK YOU guys.

you are very welcome even though i completely forgot about top_name_width. btw im working on conky on the wave any suggestions

[kaivalagi]

you are very welcome even though i completely forgot about top_name_width. btw im working on conky on the wave any suggestions

More on lua based cairo functionality...

[dogbert176]

Some of you conky geniuses know how to combine the if_existing or if_mounted variable with londonali's ringscript?

So if_mounted "external disk" -> show me ringscript
If not -> show nothing.

You have to call for the ringscript using

lua_load ~/ringscript
lua_draw_hook_pre ring_stats

ABOVE the text-section, so how do you let the rings appear/disappear with if_something?

[dmillerct]

Some of you conky geniuses know how to combine the if_existing or if_mounted variable with londonali's ringscript?

So if_mounted "external disk" -> show me ringscript
If not -> show nothing.

You have to call for the ringscript using

lua_load ~/ringscript
lua_draw_hook_pre ring_stats

ABOVE the text-section, so how do you let the rings appear/disappear with if_something?

You can't do it at the moment.

I think kaivalagi was going to look into it, I know that I was also planning on spending some time researching but that never happend.

[abumaia]

Well, I think I finally got mine mostly done. There are still some things I'm not satisfied with, but they deal with things that haven't been programmed in yet, so they're on hiatus for now. I figure it's about time I shared my .conkyrc and screenshot. Nothing groundbreaking going on here, though.

.conkyrc

# conky configuration
# edited by Mark Buck (Kaivalagi) <m_buck@hotmail.com>

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 5x7
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
#font 8x13
#font 9x15
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont DejaVuSansMono:size=9

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window no

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
maximum_width 265

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 8

# border margins
border_inner_margin 0

# border width
border_width 0

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
default_bar_size 10 180

# own window options
own_window        yes
own_window_transparent    yes
own_window_type        override
own_window_hints    undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment mr
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 5
gap_y 0

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer right

# colours
color1 white
# light blue
color2 6892C6
# orange
#E77320
color3 FC8820
# green
color4 78BF39
# red
color5 CC0000

text_buffer_size 2048

# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter
# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network
# stuff because of an argument

pad_percents 2
short_units
#seti_dir /var/lib/boinc-client

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

#lua_load ~/ConkyScripts/draw_bg.lua
#lua_draw_hook_pre draw_bg

TEXT
${image ~/ConkyScripts/transbg.png}${goto 45}${font F25 Bank Printer:size=40}${color1}${time %H:%M}${voffset 12}${font F25 Bank Printer:size=7}${execpi 3600 ~/ConkyScripts/date.sh}${goto 20}${voffset 22}${execpi 3600 ~/ConkyScripts/calendar.sh}
$stippled_hr
${execpi 900 conkyForecast --location=USMT0145 --template=~/ConkyScripts/conkyForecast.template}${voffset -4}$stippled_hr
${font}${color3}CPU1${goto 123}${color1}${i8k_cpu_temp}C${color3}${alignr 2}CPU2${color1}
${cpugraph cpu1 25,130 CC0000 FC8820 -t}${alignr 2}${cpugraph cpu2 25,130 CC0000 FC8820 -t}
${voffset -30}${goto 3}${cpu cpu1}%${goto 137}${cpu cpu2}%${voffset 8}
${color3}RAM:${color1} ${membar 10,200}${alignr 2}${memperc}%
$stippled_hr
${color3}I:${color1}${gw_ip}${color3}${alignr 2}E:${color1}${execi 900 wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/[^[:digit:]\|.]//g'}
${color3}Up:${color1}${totalup wlan0}${alignr 2}${color3}Down:${color1}${totaldown wlan0}
${upspeedgraph wlan0 25,130 CC0000 FC8820 -l -t}${alignr 2}${downspeedgraph wlan0 25,130 CC0000 FC8820 -l -t}
${voffset -30}${goto 3}${upspeed wlan0}${goto 137}${downspeed wlan0}${voffset 3}
$stippled_hr
${execpi 5 perl ~/ConkyScripts/boinc.pl}${image ~/BOINC/boinc_logo_trans.gif -p 175,425 -s 78x32}${execpi 3600 ~/ConkyScripts/sunmoon.sh}

[Defiant Rat]

Long time reader, first time poster

# maintain spacing between certain elements
use_spacer right

# set to yes if you want tormo to be forked in the background
#background yes

use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Vera-8
#xftfont Andale Mono-9
#xftfont Clean-8
#xftfont cubicfive10:pixelsize=8
#xftfont squaredance10:pixelsize=14
#xftfont swf!t_v02:pixelsize=10

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 1
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_hints below

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 200 5
maximum_width 250

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no # amplifies text

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 5

# border widt5
border_width 6

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color black
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color DarkGrey

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no




# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
TEXT

${color black}${font Apple Garamond:size=48}${time %H}${font Apple Garamond:bold:size=19}${time :%M}${font Apple Garamond:bold:size=9}${time %S}       

${color black}${font Apple Garamond:size=9}${time %A,} ${time %d %B %Y} 
 
Uptime: $uptime_short

${font Apple Garamond:size=8}Current: ${font Conkyweather:size=12}${execi 1800 conkyForecast  --night --location=UKXX0471 --startday=0 --datatype=WF --refetch} ${voffset -5}${font Apple Garamond:size=8}${execi 1800 conkyForecast  --location=UKXX0471 --datatype=CT},  ${execpi 1800 conkyForecast  --location=UKXX0471  -x --datatype=HT}

Chance of rain: ${execi 1800 conkyForecast  --location=UKXX0471 --datatype=PC --startday=0}
Humidity: ${execi 1800 conkyForecast  --location=UKXX0471 --night --datatype=HM}   UV: ${execi 1800 conkyForecast  --location=UKXX0471 --datatype=UT}

${execi 1800 conkyForecast  --location=UKXX0471 --startday=1 --endday=5 --datatype=DW --shortweekday --spaces=6} 
${font Conkyweather:size=12}${execi 1800 conkyForecast  --location=UKXX0471 --startday=1 --endday=5 --datatype=WF --refetch --spaces=6}${font}     
${font Apple Garamond:size=9}    ${execi 1800 conkyForecast  --location=UKXX0471 --startday=1 --endday=5 --datatype=LT --refetch --spaces=3}


${color black}System ${color black}${hr 1} 
  ${color black}AMD Athlon II x4 630 $color $alignr $cpu%
   ${color black}${cpugraph ,120 000000 e5e5e5 25}
#
  ${color black}${execi 30 sensors | grep 'CPU Temperature' | cut -c1-25}°C
  ${color black}${execi 30 sensors | grep 'MB Temperature' | cut -c1-25}°C
#
  
${color black}Processes ${color black}${hr 1}
  ${color black}total $alignr $processes
  ${color black}running $alignr $running_processes

${color black}Memory ${color black}${hr 1}
  ${color black}total $alignr ${memmax}
  ${color black}used $alignr $memperc%  $mem


${color black}Wired (${color black}${addr eth0}${color black}) ${color black}${hr 1}
 ${color black}Down:${color black} ${downspeed eth0} k/s $alignr${color black} Up:${color black} ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color black}${downspeedgraph eth0 27,120 000000 e5e5e5 180} $alignr${color black}${upspeedgraph ra0 27,120 000000 e5e5e5 25}
${color black} Total Down ${totaldown eth0}     $alignr${color black}Total Up ${totalup eth0}

Not a patch on some of the stuff in this thread

p.s not a conky question, but does anyone know how I can change the tray icon for deluge?

[iceman600]

Pretty much everything you are going to need to know about conky can be found on Conky Hardcore located here

To use an image in cokny you need to be at least running 1.7.1.1 if I remember correctly. 1.7.2 is in the karmic repos and should suit you just fine.

Thanks... been there and reading some basic stuff to refresh me again using conky. I check my version of conky installed on my system and it is 1.8.0~rc2
will this be fine or should i install the 1.7.2 instead?

i will try to import a picture to my conky using that script you gave me hope i get it right...

btw i read about putting a script on my home folder called "imlib2.lua".
Did that... is that necessary for an image to be imported on conky or the script you gave me is just fine without that script?