Howto: Get a beautiful Conky 1.4.2 setup

[litemotiv]

Can someone post a snippet from their conkyrc file to show me how to used a fixed font? Although this is a can of worms how do I find a list of fixed fonts to use -- Im looking for a nice one!!

use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8

[kevdog]

This script still doesnt work for me:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 && conky;

I did exactly the above, changed permissions to 755, added the script to the Sessions menu.

Now when I reboot I get nothing coming up.
sudo ps -ef | grep conky
doesnt show any process running.

Before with just conky in the sessions menu, I would at least get conky up for a brief second before being replaced by the background.

Any other suggestions?

[EinA]

Has anyone gotten this weather script to work?

Hi,
Can't see your script. Maybe the following script(tweather.sh) will help.
It was originally used in Torsmo but works fine in my Conky. (Thanks to the Puppy Linux forum)
P.S I don't know much about how it works

#!/bin/bash

# This script receives two parameters
# LOCATION : is the LOCATION name in weather.yahoo.com without the .html
# SCALE: can be "C" or "F" the default is "F"

LOCATION="$1"
SCALE="$2"
WEATHER_FILE=/tmp/weather${LOCATION}.txt

if [ ! -e $WEATHER_FILE ] ; then
ELAPSED_TIME=601
else
# Only execute the script every 10 minutes
CURRENT_TIME=`date -u +%s`
PREV_TIME=`date -r $WEATHER_FILE +%s`
ELAPSED_TIME=`expr $CURRENT_TIME - $PREV_TIME`
fi


if [ $ELAPSED_TIME -gt 600 ] ; then
if [ "${SCALE}" == "C" ] ; then
wget http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/${LOCATION}_c.html?force_units=1 \
-O $WEATHER_FILE
else
SCALE="F"
wget http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/${LOCATION}.html?force_units=1 \
-O $WEATHER_FILE
fi
fi

awk '/<div id="forecast-temperature">/,/&deg;</' $WEATHER_FILE | \
grep "&deg" | \
sed -e 's/.\+>\([0-9]\+\)&deg.\+/\1/' > /tmp/tmp$$

echo `cat /tmp/tmp$$` " ${SCALE}"

rm /tmp/tmp$$

#These are to extract more
#awk '/More Current/,/Local/' $WEATHER_FILE | tr -d "\n" > tmp.txt
# cat tmp.txt | cut -d">" -f17
# cat tmp.txt | cut -d">" -f20
# cat tmp.txt | cut -d">" -f27
# cat tmp.txt | cut -d">" -f32
################################################## ###### end of script

and this is the line from my .conkyrc

${color}Maidenhead: ${color green}${execi 1800 /root/tweather.sh UKXX0090 C }

to find your towns code go to http://weather.yahoo.com find your town and then look in the url and you will see its code. Swap that for mine. (UKXX0090)

and some other chaps bring in stocks and share prices.

hope this helps
EinA

[legatek]

This script still doesnt work for me:

Before with just conky in the sessions menu, I would at least get conky up for a brief second before being replaced by the background.

Any other suggestions?

I had to specify the entire path in the sessions menu (ie. /home/.../.conky_start.sh) to get the script to work. Now conky sits on top of everything until I kill it and restart it, but at least it shows up!

[raul_]

This script still doesnt work for me:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10 && conky;

I did exactly the above, changed permissions to 755, added the script to the Sessions menu.

Now when I reboot I get nothing coming up.
sudo ps -ef | grep conky
doesnt show any process running.

Before with just conky in the sessions menu, I would at least get conky up for a brief second before being replaced by the background.

Any other suggestions?

try a "sudo chmod a+x script" instead

and then try to run it yourself

[waldorsockbat]

Ok guy's I need a little help here if you will be so kind.I can't get video card temp to work not sure what info besides what in the conky.

Also I can't get the weather from a couple posts up to work either. I copied and pasted the script ,chmod a+x weather.sh. I then changed the location in the conky line.

Here's my conky config

# UBUNTU-CONKY
# A comprehensive conky script, configured for use on
# Ubuntu / Debian Gnome, without the need for any external scripts.
#
# Based on conky-jc and the default .conkyrc.
# INCLUDES:
# - tail of /var/log/messages
# - netstat connections to your computer
#
# -- Pengo (conky@pengo.us)
#

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

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

# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft no

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0

# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
font arial
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 9

# border width
border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color grey

own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes

# 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

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color orange}$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine
${color #C0C8CD}UpTime: ${uptime} Load: ${loadavg}
${color orange}$stippled_hr
CPUentium D940 ${freq}mhz ${alignr} Temp: ${execi 1 sensors | grep "CPU Temp:" | cut -c12-16 ;}C
${color orange} CPU0: ${cpu cpu1}%
${color #C0C8CD}${cpubar cpu1}
${color orange} CPU1: ${cpu cpu2}%
${color #C0C8CD}${cpubar cpu2}
${color orange}Processes:${color #C0C8CD} $processes ${color orange} Running:${color #C0C8CD} $running_processes

NAME PID CPU% MEM%
${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

${color orange}MEMORY / DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM: $memperc% ${membar 6}$color
Swap: $swapperc% ${swapbar 6}$color

Hard Drive Temp: WD1600JB ${execi 1 nc localhost 7634 | cut -c31-32 ;}C
Root: ${fs_free_perc /}% ${fs_bar 6 /}$color
hda1: ${fs_free_perc /media/hda1}% ${fs_bar 6 /media/hda1}$color
hdb3: ${fs_free_perc /media/hdb3}% ${fs_bar 6 /media/hdb3}

${color orange}NETWORK (${addr eth1}) ${hr 2}$color
Down: $color${downspeed eth1} k/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth1} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth1 25,140 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1
25,140 000000 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown eth1} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup eth1}
Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768
61000 count}${alignr}Total: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${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
${color}Maidenhead: ${color orange}${execi 1800 /root/tweather.sh USAL0162 C }

[Plasma_NZ]

re-post #509 by Nicram

Hi,
Is it possible to have conky visible all the time?
The problem is, when you maximize a window, conky is covered up. How to keep it visible like a panel in Gnome, Kde for example or at least as a docking option in gkrellm?
There's a hack for this using this file: space_dapp.c but it's for flubox.
I have been playing with various settings, but with no result.

Any ideas

Anyone able to help...? Wouldnt mind a solution myself as im lookin for the same solution..

[codedmin]

Hy there it's possible click in some place of conky and then run one script?

Like shortcut?

Thanks in advance

[OffHand]

Hy there it's possible click in some place of conky and then run one script?

Like shortcut?

Thanks in advance

You cannot make conky clickable if that is what you mean.

[Yes]

For anyone who needs help loading Conky after Copiz or Beryl, someone gave me this script and it works perfectly:

#!/bin/bash

sleep 15 &&
conky &
exit

Make sure you make it executable:

chmod a+x /path/to/file.sh