Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[dk75]

...Okay... I feel dirty in getting this done... I had to virtualize a Windows Vista session in order to get the system to use the swap space at all.

Add this to /etc/fstab:

# /tmp in tmpfs
tmpfs						/tmp		tmpfs	defaults,size=4096M,mode=4777	0	0

it will mount /tmp in virtual 4GiB space that is using your system memory and then SWAP if RAM's not sufficient.
If you have so much memory that you have no SWAP usage during work (2GB, 4GB?) then it will improve your system speed (or stop killing your SSD drive ).

After that

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count 2K of=/tmp/swap.test

will eat you 2GiB of RAM 8)

As for your ringest.lua - it works for me.

[42dorian]

Add this to /etc/fstab:

# /tmp in tmpfs
tmpfs						/tmp		tmpfs	defaults,size=4096M,mode=4777	0	0

it will mount /tmp in virtual 4GiB space that is using your system memory and then SWAP if RAM's not sufficient.
If you have so much memory that you have no SWAP usage during work (2GB, 4GB?) then it will improve your system speed (or stop killing your SSD drive ).

After that

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count 2K of=/tmp/swap.test

will eat you 2GiB of RAM 8)

As for your ringest.lua - it works for me.

Okay. Interesting. What does this do for me, exactly? Last I checked, if memory is behaving itself, swap space isn't all that necessary. If Xubuntu is running efficiency, it shouldn't use Swap at all, it's just for those times when it's absolutely necessary. I have 1GB of RAM, and I don't have an SSD running right now, so what does this do for me? Is it just a way I can use to show off the colour scheme when I can't get it to show up?

I know, weird font I use, makes it look like that 0.98 GB is 8.98 GB. But it's only 1.

[VinDSL]

haha sorry proxess. I really like it

I love those two!

Did you notice Conky is padded with 2's also? LoL!

Two is a very special number!

2 + 2 = 4
2 x 2 = 4
Two is the most sensitive number.
And, 2 is the only even prime number.

Glad you liked it...

[mrpeachy]

more artistic with it following lines like so. its just my preferred style of conky. (o and not to boost my ego by using one of my own conkys but im really proud of it)

you need some curved text to better fit the leaves
and i just happen to have a lua function that can do that
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/55708/#p55708
its the same one that puts the text around the circles in the mayan calendar script

[mick_86]

i'm having a bit of trouble inserting an image into my conky, wondering if anyone can help.

i'll post the code and the screen shot so you can see whats happening(or not happening).

##   .conkyrc configuration

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont Trebuchet MS:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# 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 yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 100

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 180 

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 5

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color black
own_window_colour black

# 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
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 35
gap_y 50

# 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 none

# my colors
color0 White
color1 red
color2 green
color3 blue
color4 orange
color5 Tan1
color6 Gray
color7 yellow
color8 brown
color9 Black

TEXT
${image ~/home/michael/Downloads/Ubuntu-icon.jpg -p250,0 -s 80x80}
${color9}${font :size=14} Ubuntu 10.10 
${color1}${font :size=8} SYSTEM ${hr 2}

${color9}${font :size=8}CPU: ${cpu cpu}% ${alignr}${cpubar 8,60 cpu}
RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}

${color1}${font :size=8}DATE & TIME ${hr 2}

${color9}${font :size=8}${alignc 35}${font Trebuchet MS:size=26}${time %H:%M}${font}
${alignc}${time %a %d %b %Y}

${color1}${font :size=8}HD ${hr 2}

${color9}${font :size=8}Home:
${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /home}

${color1}${font :size=8}${hr 2}

${color9}${font :size=10} "The most overlooked 
advantage of owning a computer 
is that if they foul up there's 
no law against whacking them 
round a bit. "
                  - Eric Porterfield.

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[miegiel]

i'm having a bit of trouble inserting an image into my conky, wondering if anyone can help.

i'll post the code and the screen shot so you can see whats happening(or not happening).

First of all, I put a extra space in the red bit.

If that doesn't fix it: How wide is your conky ?

${image ~/home/michael/Downloads/Ubuntu-icon.jpg -p 250,0 -s 80x80}

seems to be outside your conky "window".

[ddnev45]

i'm having a bit of trouble inserting an image into my conky, wondering if anyone can help.

i'll post the code and the screen shot so you can see whats happening(or not happening).

[CODE]## .conkyrc configuration

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont Trebuchet MS:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# 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 yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_argb_value 100

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 180

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 5

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color black
own_window_colour black

# 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
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 35
gap_y 50

# 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 none

# my colors
color0 White
color1 red
color2 green
color3 blue
color4 orange
color5 Tan1
color6 Gray
color7 yellow
color8 brown
color9 Black

TEXT
${image ~/home/michael/Downloads/Ubuntu-icon.jpg -p250,0 -s 80x80}
${color9}${font :size=14} Ubuntu 10.10
${color1}${font :size=8} SYSTEM ${hr 2}

${color9}${font :size=8}CPU: ${cpu cpu}% ${alignr}${cpubar 8,60 cpu}
RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}

${color1}${font :size=8}DATE & TIME ${hr 2}

${color9}${font :size=8}${alignc 35}${font Trebuchet MS:size=26}${time %H:%M}${font}
${alignc}${time %a %d %b %Y}

${color1}${font :size=8}HD ${hr 2}

${color9}${font :size=8}Home:
${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /home}

${color1}${font :size=8}${hr 2}

${color9}${font :size=10} "The most overlooked
advantage of owning a computer
is that if they foul up there's
no law against whacking them
round a bit. "
- Eric Porterfield.

The x position of your image (250) is beyond the minimum_size value of 180

[mick_86]

First of all, I put a extra space in the red bit.

If that doesn't fix it: How wide is your conky ?

${image ~/home/michael/Downloads/Ubuntu-icon.jpg -p 250,0 -s 80x80}

seems to be outside your conky "window".

i put in the new line and it didn't work, not sure how wide it is, i'll give you a screen shot so you have a rough idea.



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[mick_86]

The x position of your image (250) is beyond the minimum_size value of 180

should i change the x position of my image or change the minimum_size value?

[wojox]

I posted back on your other thread.

${image ~/home/michael/Downloads/Ubuntu-icon.jpg}

Try that and then you can mess with aligning it.