Howto: Get a beautiful Conky 1.4.2 setup

[Bruce M.]

I'm a new Ubuntu user and from what i've seen would like to use Conky as a monitoring tool for my broadband connection (ppp0).

I have seen a couple of scripts that show both the upload and download speed but what I'm looking for is a script that will give me the total daily and monthly upload & download in Mb. Is this possible ?

Yes, a program called "vnstat" it's in the repos...

More info here: Conky Hardcore! - vnstat

Have a nice day.
Bruce

[The Thug]

Thanks Bruce, will have a look at it and play around.

[kevinguillorytraining]

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.

[categ0re]

Hi.

I'd like to post a small HowTo.

Maybe some of you guys are using an overlay network like TOR or i2p to surf the web.
If you do, maybe you´d like to have BOTH IP's displayed in conky.

So well, here we go:

First, you need the ip.sh script.

Create a directory in your home called .scripts
cd into the new directory and create a new blank file with an editor you like to use. I prefer nano.

so well:

Displaying the "normal" IP Adress:

nano ip.sh

paste the following content:

#!/bin/bash
wget --no-proxy http://checkip.dyndns.org/ -q -O - |
grep -Eo '\<[[:digit:]]{1,3}(\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}){3}\>'

(NOTE: --no-proxy option will be explained later. IT HAS TO BE THERE.)

save the file

chmod +x ip.sh

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Displaying the i2p-Adress:

stay in /home/foo/.scripts

nano i2p.sh

paste the following content:

#!/bin/bash
wget http://checkip.dyndns.org/ -q -O - |
grep -Eo '\<[[:digit:]]{1,3}(\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}){3}\>'

save the file

chmod +x i2p.sh

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Now, we have to configure wget to use our TOR/i2p-server as proxy.

sudo nano /etc/wgetrc

search for:
#http_proxy = http://proxy:8080

uncomment and change to:
http_proxy = http://I2P_PROXY_IP:8080/
NOTE: The proxy IP can be localhost if you are running TOR/i2p on your machine. Otherwise, enter the IP of your I2P-Server. Change the port to the one you defined, or leave it default.

uncomment
use_proxy = on

save the file

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Configuring your .conkyrc

open .conkyrc with the editor of your choice. I stay with nano here.

nano /home/foo/.conkyrc

paste the following lines to your .conkyrc

Regular IP: ${alignr}${execi 1~/.scripts/ip.sh}
i2p IP: ${alignr}${execi 300~/.scripts/i2p.sh}

The "300" is important. Otherweise your i2p-server is gonna start to reject tunnels because of a high message delay.
Remember? We saved these two files in .scripts , the directory in your home folder.
Reload conky.

Feel free to add some colours or custom fonts to these lines. Example:

${font Sans:size=7:weight=bold}${color red}i2p IP: ${alignr}${execi 1~/.scripts/i2p.sh}

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Keep in mind: If you are gonna use wget in the future, you have to use the --no-proxy option. Well, maybe you want wget to download files via encrypted networks. It's your choice.

regards, categ0re

[jerryhannah]

Im so sorry im a linux "noob" i see all this talk about creating this config file when i copied your code in the terminal to paste you conky config and tried to save it said could not find....does any1 have the heart to walk a dummy through step by step

[kaivalagi]

Im so sorry im a linux "noob" i see all this talk about creating this config file when i copied your code in the terminal to paste you conky config and tried to save it said could not find....does any1 have the heart to walk a dummy through step by step

The last post on this thread was back in December 2009! Try asking for help in the conkyrc thread here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865
Better still have a look at the conky pitstop site linked in my sig, or the documentation for conky here: http://conky.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

HTH

[valtam]

Just finished my LCars Star Trek Conky, took just over a day of coding. This is for the right side screen of a dual monitor setup.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/zFvCI.png

[RichJacot]

That's AWESOME!!!!!!!!