Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[Cammy]

Also, how do i set up conkyrc to start automatically? I added it to System > Preferences > Sessions, but no good.

Sometimes you have to add a delay start to it. I did. Go back a few pages for some examples. I use this:

#!/bin/sh
sleep 20
conky &

In a file called .startconky that I chmod to 755. Then add that to your sessions instead of conky.

[DerangedDingo]

DragonBite:
Try turning off xftfont.
As far as I can tell, rendering a font is one of the costly parts of conky.

[smartboyathome]

I am getting a weird error when trying to run conky. It says the serial port is 3 higher than it should be. Help please!

[PurposeOfReason]

Please post your .conkyrc.

[toozler]

Sometimes you have to add a delay start to it. I did. Go back a few pages for some examples. I use this:

#!/bin/sh
sleep 20
conky &

In a file called .startconky that I chmod to 755. Then add that to your sessions instead of conky.

Thanks for the tip! But I'm fairly new to linux, how's that done?

Thank you again!

[billgoldberg]

This thread was a great idea. I've stuck customizing my conky and failed badly.

This thread solved my problems by a simple copy/past.

[Cammy]

Thanks for the tip! But I'm fairly new to linux, how's that done?

Open a terminal window (Accessories -> Terminal) and type: gedit .startconky

Paste the contents from my last post.

Save it, and close the editor.

Go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions, and change your conky startup line to run .startconky instead of conky.

[PurposeOfReason]

Is it possible to have downspeed/upspeed work for two connections? When I'm at home, my notebook is connected to eth0 but if I'm out with wireless, it uses wlan0. I've tried to just put both variables but it only reads the first one.

[Ankara23]

Here's mine. This began as some other guys (sorry have no idea where I got it or I would give credit)....then I altered it to suit my box.

#conkyrc-Zeppo- 3final

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=8
xftalpha 1.0
update_interval 3.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 100 5
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 8
border_margin 2
border_width 1
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes
alignment bottom_left
gap_x 10
gap_y 22
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 3
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale yes
use_spacer no

TEXT
${color #3D59AB}$nodename
${color #3D59AB}$sysname $kernel - on $machine 
${color #3D59AB}CPU - ${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //' | tail -n1} 
${color #3D59AB}Uptime:${color #FFA812} $uptime ${color #3D59AB}
${color #3D59AB}CPU Temp:${color #FFA812}    ${alignr}${execi 8 sensors | grep -A 1 'Core0' | cut -c13-16 | sed '/^$/d'}C ${color #3D59AB}
Load Avg.:${color #FFA812} $loadavg
${color #3D59AB}Usage:${color #3D59AB} ${color #FFA812}${cpu}% ${color #3D59AB}${cpubar 5}
${color #3D59AB}${cpugraph 25 3D59AB FFA812}
${color #3D59AB}${hr}
${color #3D59AB}RAM:${color #FFA812} $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${color #3D59AB}${membar}
${color #3D59AB}SWP:${color #FFA812} $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${color #3D59AB}${swapbar}
${color #3D59AB}${hr}
D: ${color #3D59AB}${downspeed eth0} k/s           ${addr eth0}${alignr}U: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,105 3D59AB FFA812} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 25,105 3D59AB FFA812}
${color #3D59AB}${hr}
${color #3D59AB}Hard Disks
${color #3D59AB}Directory       Free
root  :  ${fs_free_perc /}%   ${fs_bar 5 /}
usr    :  ${fs_free_perc /usr}%   ${fs_bar 5 /usr}
Windows :  ${fs_free_perc /media/windows}%   ${fs_bar 5 /media/windows}
${color #3D59AB}${hr}
${color #3D59AB}Process:                PID   CPU%    MEM%
${color #FFA812}${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}   ${top mem 1}
${color #3D59AB}${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}   ${top mem 2}
${color #3D59AB}${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}   ${top mem 3}
${color #3D59AB}${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4}   ${top mem 4}

Anyway....I LOVE conky!

[staticvoid]

hey, what can i ad to make something like

Mail - 3

If i have 3 messages in my gmail inbox

i've tried extra scripts and stuff but i can't seem to get it working.
here's my conkyrc anyway,

background yes
use_xft no
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans:size=7
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 0.5
own_window yesEdit/Delete Message
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_border no
draw_graph_borders yes
stippled_borders no
default_color white
default_shade_color black
alignment top_right
minimum_size 1425
maximum_width 1050
gap_y 32
gap_x 32
use_spacer no
no_buffers yes

TEXT
${color white} Processor - ${cpu cpu0}% ${cpugraph cpu1 8, 30 ffffff ffffff}  | Memory - ${mem} of ${memmax} ${memgraph mem 8, 30 ffffff ffffff} | Processes - $running_processes of $processes running | HDD - ${fs_used /} of ${fs_size /} used

there you have it and a screenshot: