Trying to configure conky on a new system

[WanderingOak]

I have a new install of Ubuntu desktop on an old IBM T43 laptop, and I am trying to get conky up and running. I've copied one of the sample .conkyrc files from the conky sourceforge page and pasted it into ~/.conkyrc . However, I've rebooted conky several times (killall -SIGUSR1 conky) and it still uses the default configuration in: /etc/conky/conky.conf . I figured maybe I needed to restart X11, so I rebooted. Conky didn't start on boot, even though I added it to my startup applications, and running conky in terminal resulted in the following error messages:


Conky: /home/antony/.conkyrc: 29: no such configuration: 'on_bottom'
Conky: /home/antony/.conkyrc: 50: no such configuration: 'border_margin'
Conky: use_spacer should have an argument of left, right, or none. 'no' seems to be some form of 'false', so defaulting to none.
Conky: unknown variable freq_dyn_g
Conky: statfs '/mnt/storage/': No such file or directory
Conky: statfs '/mnt/windows': No such file or directory
Conky: forked to background, pid is 2112
antony@antony-ThinkPad-T43:~$
Conky: desktop window (1600095) is subwindow of root window (14c)
Conky: drawing to desktop window
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: statfs '/mnt/windows': No such file or directory
Conky: statfs '/mnt/storage/': No such file or directory
Conky: /proc/i8k doesn't exist! use insmod to make sure the kernel driver is loaded...

I'm new to Ubuntu and conky, but I thought I knew enough about Linux in general to figure this out on my own.


I've attached my .conkyrc file.

[critin]

Have you seen this sticky?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...t=conky%2C+lua

[philinux]

I have a new install of Ubuntu desktop on an old IBM T43 laptop, and I am trying to get conky up and running. I've copied one of the sample .conkyrc files from the conky sourceforge page and pasted it into ~/.conkyrc . However, I've rebooted conky several times (killall -SIGUSR1 conky) and it still uses the default configuration in: /etc/conky/conky.conf . I figured maybe I needed to restart X11, so I rebooted. Conky didn't start on boot, even though I added it to my startup applications, and running conky in terminal resulted in the following error messages:


Conky: /home/antony/.conkyrc: 29: no such configuration: 'on_bottom'
Conky: /home/antony/.conkyrc: 50: no such configuration: 'border_margin'
Conky: use_spacer should have an argument of left, right, or none. 'no' seems to be some form of 'false', so defaulting to none.
Conky: unknown variable freq_dyn_g
Conky: statfs '/mnt/storage/': No such file or directory
Conky: statfs '/mnt/windows': No such file or directory
Conky: forked to background, pid is 2112
antony@antony-ThinkPad-T43:~$
Conky: desktop window (1600095) is subwindow of root window (14c)
Conky: drawing to desktop window
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: statfs '/mnt/windows': No such file or directory
Conky: statfs '/mnt/storage/': No such file or directory
Conky: /proc/i8k doesn't exist! use insmod to make sure the kernel driver is loaded...

I'm new to Ubuntu and conky, but I thought I knew enough about Linux in general to figure this out on my own.


I've attached my .conkyrc file.

It means conky cant start as one or more of the variables is set wrong for that machine.

Try # commenting the offending one out. for correct config see this.

http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html

Try mine which is attached.

[WanderingOak]

It means conky cant start as one or more of the variables is set wrong for that machine.

Try # commenting the offending one out. for correct config see this.

http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html

Try mine which is attached.

Well, your config file worked, once I commented out the second CPU. Thanks for the help!