Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[proxess]

I made a cup-like system mon on conky which fills up the cup depending on a percentage... It's nothing fancy, I still have to work on it...

Screenies as soon as I get home.

[el_eternauta]

¿Alguien conoce algún tutorial para principiantes que enseñe como instalar esto?:




Muchas gracias por las respuestas!

[Mahngiel]

¿Alguien conoce algún tutorial para principiantes que enseñe como instalar esto?:

^^ Someone knows some tutorial one for novices that teach as to install this?

http://conky.linux-hardcore.com

There are other websites, this is a great place to start. And I believe that's KDE.
Hay otros sitios web, este es un gran lugar para comenzar. Y yo creo que es KDE??

[proxess]

So this is what the cup looks like... and my current desktop. Check it out!

[wannabegeek]

Hello,

I have managed to get a conky working today ! I am new to scripting and understand the
basic commands ok.

The script I'm using is a combination of ones from this thread.
For now, the issue I have is making the window in the desktop large enough to show
all the data.

In the future, I'd like to add a line which lists the mounted file systems. Linux us still pretty new to me and I am confused about what directory look though. For instance,
my external USB back up drive mounts to /dev/media, but there's also a /mnt,

thank you,
wbg

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Trebuchet MS:size=10

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.9

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes

# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type normal

# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 170 5

# Maximum width
maximum_width 170

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_borders no

# Stippled borders?
# stippled_borders 8

# border margins
# border_margin 2

# border width
# border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color black
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment none

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 12
gap_y 12

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale no

# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

#  unused text
#  Current:${alignr}${execi 20 /home/tonyt/scripts/.conky_eth2} Mbits/sec
#  hda Temp:${alignr}${execi 1800 /home/tonyt/scripts/.hdtemp}
#  $sysname $kernel
#  Uptime:$alignr$uptime
#  ${time %A}$alignr${time %F}
#  hda5: ${fs_used_perc /mnt/FILES}% ${color lightgray}${fs_bar /mnt/FILES/}$color
#  Swap: $swapperc% ${color lightgray}$swapbar$color
#  Signal:$alignr${linkstatus  ath0}
#  Current:${alignr}${execi 20 /home/tonyt/scripts/.conky_ath0} Mbits/sec
#  eth2:$alignr${addr eth2}
#  ${upspeedgraph wlan0 20,130 000000 ffffff}
#  ${downspeedgraph wlan0 20,130 000000 ffffff}

TEXT
Hostname:$alignr$nodename
Up load ${upspeed wlan0} k/s
Down Load ${downspeed wlan0}k/s${color}
RAM: $mem/$memmax ${color lightgray}$membar$color
CPU0 ${cpu cpu1}% ${color lightgray}${cpubar cpu1}$color
CPU1 ${cpu cpu2}% ${color lightgray}${cpubar cpu2}$color
sda1: ${fs_used_perc /}% ${color lightgray}${fs_bar /}$color
Processes: $processes ${alignr}Running: $running_processes 

[miegiel]

Hello,

I have managed to get a conky working today ! I am new to scripting and understand the
basic commands ok.

The script I'm using is a combination of ones from this thread.
For now, the issue I have is making the window in the desktop large enough to show
all the data.

In the future, I'd like to add a line which lists the mounted file systems. Linux us still pretty new to me and I am confused about what directory look though. For instance,
my external USB back up drive mounts to /dev/media, but there's also a /mnt,

thank you,
wbg

... snip ...

# Maximum width
maximum_width 170

... snip ... 

That's what's stopping your conky window from growing wider

[cyberkost]

${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} / ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rhost 0}

points to my router. Is this the correct behavior? Is it not supposed to give me the IP address/hostname all the way on the other end?

[wannabegeek]

thanks Miegiel...that's kinda obvious I guess
I changed the value from 160 to 170...so I don't have to
worry about defining the exact size...

somewhat off topic...I haven't been able to get conky to run at startup.
I don't know how to change my startup from terminal. All the google searches explain through the GUI which prolly needs root permission to
make perm changes, right ?

I made a copy of ./startconky and put it in my /home/bin and
I can start conky as a script tat calls $conky -c /path

any ideas..?
tia
wannabegeek

[miegiel]

${tcp_portmon 22 22 rip 0} / ${tcp_portmon 22 22 rhost 0}

points to my router. Is this the correct behavior? Is it not supposed to give me the IP address/hostname all the way on the other end?

Maybe your router is messing things up

thanks Miegiel...that's kinda obvious I guess
I changed the value from 160 to 170...so I don't have to
worry about defining the exact size...

somewhat off topic...I haven't been able to get conky to run at startup.
I don't know how to change my startup from terminal. All the google searches explain through the GUI which prolly needs root permission to
make perm changes, right ?

I made a copy of ./startconky and put it in my /home/bin and
I can start conky as a script tat calls $conky -c /path

any ideas..?
tia
wannabegeek

There are several startup scripts in this thread, searching for "css" (conky startup script) in this thread should make some popup. One thing to keep in mind, if you also run compiz, is that you need to delay conky a bit so that it starts after compiz. Personally I start conky with a launcher on the panel so that I can connect to the internet before conky starts (depending on what network I'm on I sometimes need to enter a password to connect).

For fun, here's the script I launch from the pannel:

#!/bin/bash
#
# depends on 'cowsay'
sleep 2
conky -d -c ~/.conky/conkyrc.batt
sleep 2
conky -d -c ~/.conky/conkyrc.clock
sleep 2
conky -d -c ~/.conky/conkyrc.bottomline
sleep 2
	if ping -c 1 ping.xs4all.nl | grep received
		then
			cowsay -w ONLINE
			conky -d -c ~/.conky/conkyrc.lights.online
			sleep 2
			conky -d -c ~/.conky/conkyrc.weather
		else
			cowsay -d OFFLINE
			conky -d -c ~/.conky/conkyrc.lights.offline
	fi
sleep 2
exit

[proxess]

My current desktop, massive changes to the code. I'll add it in in a bit! Really late now tho.

Without tint2.

With tint2.

I have to link because attaching is complicate due to sizes.