Howto: Get a beautiful Conky 1.4.2 setup

[m.musashi]

Oops. That was double posted for some reason. Sorry

[r0nin]

In "nvidia-settings" I can see how hot my GPU gets. Is there anyway I could put that into my Conky setup?

[justleen]

5. Add dbe module to /etc/X11/xorg.conf to reduce flickering.

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

find the section titled Section "Module", and add

        Load    "dbe"

I found there was already a line Load "vbe" in my xorg. I had to change this to "dbe" in order for conky to work correctly with double buffering./

[Thore]

In "nvidia-settings" I can see how hot my GPU gets. Is there anyway I could put that into my Conky setup?

${color black}Nvidia: ${color white}${exec /usr/bin/nvidia-settings -q gpus | cut -c 29-43 | tail -n2}
${color black}GPU Core Temp: ${color white}${exec /usr/bin/nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp |grep Attribute |cut -c 44-45}'C

My NVIDIA Driver version is 9631
Hope this helps you on your way

Thore

[r0nin]

Cheers mate. Works nicely!

[RichJacot]

I must be a complete idiot because I have not yet been able to get amarok to work with conky. I have the script from sourceforge. I have put the script in /home/usr/.conky but still I cannot get anything out of it. Only thing that displays is Now Playing and it refreshes every 10 secs. I will post my conkyrc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

chm0d

Is your amarok collection in mysql?

I just copied the last lines out of your conkyrc (changed paths), converted my amarok from sqlite to mysql, downloaded the script form conky's screenshot page and it appears to be working fine.

[qchi]

Hi all!

I just wanted to share my conky config files!

I've written a script to show weather information from yahoo in conky, but it is still using too many resources, so i will try to optimize it in the future.

ENJOY!

[nightfire117]

Sorry if this post is a bit off-topic. (Great topic by the way, it's been quite helpful.) Erm, is there a way to center everything in my conky config into the top center of my screen?

Erm, thanks - hopefully this isn't the wrong place to ask.

~Nightfire

[OffHand]

Sorry if this post is a bit off-topic. (Great topic by the way, it's been quite helpful.) Erm, is there a way to center everything in my conky config into the top center of my screen?

Erm, thanks - hopefully this isn't the wrong place to ask.

~Nightfire

Play with these settings (or add them to) in your .conkyrc file
gap_x and gap_y are measured in pixels.

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#minimum_size 10 10
gap_x 15
gap_y 85
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

[nightfire117]

Play with these settings (or add them to) in your .conkyrc file
gap_x and gap_y are measured in pixels.

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#minimum_size 10 10
gap_x 15
gap_y 85
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

Thanks, tweaking those settings work well.

~Nightfire

[EDIT]: Erm, what about laptop battery? Thanks.... XD

~Nightfire