Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[djyoung4]

I've done some searching on this, but haven't had any luck, since most posts my searches return are about network stats and not what I am after.

Is it possible, has anyone managed or is there a hack to allow conky to show the stats for local AND remote PCs? I have a PC that is always on, I'd like to use it to show me the stats/health of a few other PCs on the network and to me conky would be a great way to do that. So, is it possible to use conky to pipe it's output from one PC to another instance of conky on another PC?

I wouldn't see why not. My thinking has me headed more towards bash and ssh or telnet into whatever machine then just using print to get what stats you might need.

#!/bin/bash
SSH_User=*****
SSH_IP=192.168.1.101
sudo ssh SSH_USER@SSH_IP
hostname
exit

something like that I think should get your data. You going to have to add the ssh command. Heres a HOWTO in order to edit your visudo. It could become a security threat so only do this with caution

[Quackers]

I'm running Oneiric and recently there have been some issues with the new Nvidia driver and Cairo which stopped X from running.
Reverting to an older Cairo version solved the issue.
However, now my conky display is out of sync (or something) with the desktop background.
If you look at the screenshot you can see that the conky part of the desktop is about a quarter of an inch higher than the background, so it doesn't line up properly.
Any ideas?
It could just be an Oneiric release problem but it's not something I've seen before

[ddnev45]

I've done some searching on this, but haven't had any luck, since most posts my searches return are about network stats and not what I am after.

Is it possible, has anyone managed or is there a hack to allow conky to show the stats for local AND remote PCs? I have a PC that is always on, I'd like to use it to show me the stats/health of a few other PCs on the network and to me conky would be a great way to do that. So, is it possible to use conky to pipe it's output from one PC to another instance of conky on another PC?

I wouldn't see why not. My thinking has me headed more towards bash and ssh or telnet into whatever machine then just using print to get what stats you might need.

#!/bin/bash
SSH_User=*****
SSH_IP=192.168.1.101
sudo ssh SSH_USER@SSH_IP
hostname
exit

something like that I think should get your data. You going to have to add the ssh command. Heres a HOWTO in order to edit your visudo. It could become a security threat so only do this with caution

Take a look starting with Post 6796 and see if that is what you're trying to do - the original conky got more sophisticated as I recall so maybe check through some posts in that time frame.

[dk75]

I wouldn't see why not. My thinking has me headed more towards bash and ssh or telnet into whatever machine then just using print to get what stats you might need.

#!/bin/bash
SSH_User=*****
SSH_IP=192.168.1.101
sudo ssh SSH_USER@SSH_IP
hostname
exit

something like that I think should get your data. You going to have to add the ssh command. Heres a HOWTO in order to edit your visudo. It could become a security threat so only do this with caution

SNMP will be safer than SSH login in a plain text.
And if SSH is your choise then login with RSA/DSA not with password.

[helmuthdu]

CONKY-Colors 7.0(2011-08-09)
New sls mode:
--sls - Enable SLS-conky mode
options avaliable with this mode:
--nobg option
--weather=<area_id> option
--user=<username> - Type your gmail username
--passwd=<password> - Type your gmail password
* Three new themes: agata, sapphire and ruby
* Lots of improviments in all cairo-scripts
* Added conkyZimCalendar and conkyZimEvents scripts with zim-wiki support
* Updated scripts
* Many bugfixes

Download

[Bandit]

Think its time I take a good look at LUA and Cairo.

[VinDSL]

Think its time I take a good look at LUA and Cairo.

Same drug - different delivery system.

[Script Warlock]

it seems gauges are not displaying on sls mode. got some error like

Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: /usr/share/conkycolors/scripts/conkySLS.lua:23: assertion failed!

[helmuthdu]

it seems gauges are not displaying on sls mode. got some error like

Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: /usr/share/conkycolors/scripts/conkySLS.lua:23: assertion failed!

I cant check it now bc i'm not on my computer, only tomorow now. Sry dude...

[martadinata]

Conky: llua_do_call: function conky_main execution failed: /usr/share/conkycolors/scripts/conkySLS.lua:26: assertion failed!

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