Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

**Habitual** · May 18th, 2014

Originally Posted by DigitalGrinch

I was told there are options to do this within conky as well

Yes, the "-p" switch. See man conky for details.

**LastDino** · June 3rd, 2014

Looks like I need little help. I tried following this
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpConky

Now I can see this
Screenshot from 2014-06-03 16:36:01.jpg

My .conkyrc

Code:

# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
#
# Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
#
# All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
#
# Please see COPYING for details
#
# Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
# Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
# All rights reserved.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#

alignment top_left
background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12
gap_x 5
gap_y 60
minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

TEXT
${scroll 16 $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine | }
$hr
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime
${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$hr
${color grey}File systems:
 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color grey}Networking:
Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} ${color grey} - Down:$color ${downspeed eth0}
$hr
${color grey}Name              PID   CPU%   MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

I tried copy pasting one or two files from here and saved in my home in place of the above to see what happens, it doesn't change anything. What do I do now? How do I change/use this simple conky to some of the cool ones here?

I'm using 14.04 Gnome.
Is there anything I'm missing?

**Habitual** · June 3rd, 2014

Originally Posted by LastDino

Looks like I need little help. I tried following this
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpConky

Now I can see this
Screenshot from 2014-06-03 16:36:01.jpg

My .conkyrc

Code:

# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
#
# Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
#
# All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
#
# Please see COPYING for details
#
# Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
# Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
# All rights reserved.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#

alignment top_left
background no
border_width 1
cpu_avg_samples 2
default_color white
default_outline_color white
default_shade_color white
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
draw_outline no
draw_shades no
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12
gap_x 5
gap_y 60
minimum_size 5 5
net_avg_samples 2
no_buffers yes
out_to_console no
out_to_stderr no
extra_newline no
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type desktop
stippled_borders 0
update_interval 1.0
uppercase no
use_spacer none
show_graph_scale no
show_graph_range no

TEXT
${scroll 16 $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine | }
$hr
${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime
${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color $freq
${color grey}Frequency (in GHz):$color $freq_g
${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar 4}
${color grey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar 4}
${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 4}
${color grey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$hr
${color grey}File systems:
 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}
${color grey}Networking:
Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} ${color grey} - Down:$color ${downspeed eth0}
$hr
${color grey}Name              PID   CPU%   MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}

I tried copy pasting one or two files from here and saved in my home in place of the above to see what happens, it doesn't change anything. What do I do now? How do I change/use this simple conky to some of the cool ones here?

I'm using 14.04 Gnome.
Is there anything I'm missing?

You running conky -c /path/to/your/conkyrc?

**LastDino** · June 3rd, 2014

Originally Posted by Habitual

You running conky -c /path/to/your/conkyrc?

.............
Apparently not, I was sure it would be detected as it was being detected with default.
I only ran with

Code:

conky &

You hit the nail on its head

Also, since you're here, is there any quick guide to ''how to modify conky for dummies'' somewhere? Looks like I'm gonna need one hahaha

**Habitual** · June 3rd, 2014

Everything I learned about manipulating conky, I learned in this thread and the man page, and docs.
http://conky.pitstop.free.fr/wiki/in...itle=Main_Page is an excellent resource also.

I just took other people's RCs and bent them to my will by way of example, as I consider helper apps (conky Manager) cheating.

It all depends on what you want to "do" with it.

**LastDino** · June 3rd, 2014

Originally Posted by Habitual

Everything I learned about manipulating conky, I learned in this thread and the man page, and docs.
http://conky.pitstop.free.fr/wiki/in...itle=Main_Page is an excellent resource also.

I just took other people's RCs and bent them to my will by way of example, as I consider helper apps (conky Manager) cheating.

It all depends on what you want to "do" with it.

This community is awesome

Screenshot from 2014-06-03 22:50:53.jpg

I got exactly what I was looking for (with little tinkering) just few pages back.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...4#post13001484

Thanks Ricardo15!!!

Now I want to know how I can add an Live RSS feed or news loop to this as well and if possible add icon in there just like how Ricardo had in his original work, any ideas?

**Habitual** · June 3rd, 2014

conky-rss.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# RSS Display Script by Bill Woodford (admin@sdesign.us) v1.0
#
#RSS Setup - Don't change unless you want these values hard-coded!
uri=$1                                                  #URI of RSS Feed
lines=$2                                                #Number of headlines
titlenum=$3                                             #Number of extra titles
#Script start
#Require a uri, as a minimum
if [[ "$uri" == "" ]]; then
        echo "No URI specified, cannot continue!" >&2
        echo "Please read script for more information" >&2
else
        #Set defaults if none specified
        if [[ $lines == "" ]]; then lines=25 ; fi
        if [[ $titlenum == "" ]]; then titlenum=2 ; fi

        #The actual work
        curl -s --connect-timeout 30 $uri |\
        sed -e 's/<\/title>/\n/g' |\
        grep -o '<title>.*' |\
        sed -e 's/<title>//' |\
        head -n $(($lines + $titlenum)) |\
        tail -n $(($lines))
fi

Call it in the existing (or a new conkyrc even) with

Code:

TEXT 
${execi 300 /path/to/conky-rss.sh }

I'd use a new conkrc so you have better control over the placement of the rss feed. You can even stack it over|under|next to your existing conkyrc, using controls like the one you have now:
ie:

Code:

# Screen size = 1440x900
own_window yes                
own_window_colour brown            
own_window_transparent yes        
own_window_type desktop        
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes            
text_buffer_size 2048 #1024            
use_xft yes                
alignment tl                
gap_x 5                    
gap_y 44

Setup a .sh script to start both with:

Code:

conky -c /path/to/conkyrc0 &
conky -c /path/to/conkyrc1 &

Hope that helps.

I'll be peeking in on ya.

**LastDino** · June 4th, 2014

Originally Posted by Habitual

conky-rss.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# RSS Display Script by Bill Woodford (admin@sdesign.us) v1.0
#
#RSS Setup - Don't change unless you want these values hard-coded!
uri=$1                                                  #URI of RSS Feed
lines=$2                                                #Number of headlines
titlenum=$3                                             #Number of extra titles
#Script start
#Require a uri, as a minimum
if [[ "$uri" == "" ]]; then
        echo "No URI specified, cannot continue!" >&2
        echo "Please read script for more information" >&2
else
        #Set defaults if none specified
        if [[ $lines == "" ]]; then lines=25 ; fi
        if [[ $titlenum == "" ]]; then titlenum=2 ; fi

        #The actual work
        curl -s --connect-timeout 30 $uri |\
        sed -e 's/<\/title>/\n/g' |\
        grep -o '<title>.*' |\
        sed -e 's/<title>//' |\
        head -n $(($lines + $titlenum)) |\
        tail -n $(($lines))
fi

Call it in the existing (or a new conkyrc even) with

Code:

TEXT 
${execi 300 /path/to/conky-rss.sh }

I'd use a new conkrc so you have better control over the placement of the rss feed. You can even stack it over|under|next to your existing conkyrc, using controls like the one you have now:
ie:

Code:

# Screen size = 1440x900
own_window yes                
own_window_colour brown            
own_window_transparent yes        
own_window_type desktop        
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes            
text_buffer_size 2048 #1024            
use_xft yes                
alignment tl                
gap_x 5                    
gap_y 44

Setup a .sh script to start both with:

Code:

conky -c /path/to/conkyrc0 &
conky -c /path/to/conkyrc1 &

Hope that helps.

I'll be peeking in on ya.

Thank you

I followed your instructions to create one more conkyrc and that rss.sh file and copy pasted what you've wrote as it is.

Screenshot from 2014-06-04 06:48:26.jpg

But when I run the commands below to see what will happen if I ran script with it;

Code:


	Code:
	conky -c /path/to/conkyrc0 &
conky -c /path/to/conkyrc1 &

I get errors like this;

Code:

glen@maxwell:~$ own_window yes                
own_window: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ own_window_colour brown            
own_window_colour: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ own_window_transparent yes        
own_window_transparent: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ own_window_type desktop        
own_window_type: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_hints: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ double_buffer yes            
double_buffer: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ text_buffer_size 2048 #1024            
text_buffer_size: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ use_xft yes                
use_xft: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ alignment tl                
alignment: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ gap_x 5                    
gap_x: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$ gap_y 44
gap_y: command not found
glen@maxwell:~$

I think I'm doing something wrong, what is it? >.>

**Habitual** · June 4th, 2014

Assuming that the new rss feed is in /path/to/conkyrc1
post contents of that file or whichever file you put the code in please.

**Habitual** · June 9th, 2014

LastDino:

Here's what I just did.

Edit conky-rss.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# RSS Display Script by Bill Woodford (admin@sdesign.us) v1.0
#
#RSS Setup - Don't change unless you want these values hard-coded!
uri=http://www.redmine.org/plugins.atom                                                  #URI of RSS Feed
lines=5                                                #Number of headlines
titlenum=$3                                             #Number of extra titles
#Script start
#Require a uri, as a minimum
if [[ "$uri" == "" ]]; then
        echo "No URI specified, cannot continue!" >&2
        echo "Please read script for more information" >&2
else
        #Set defaults if none specified
        if [[ $lines == "" ]]; then lines=25 ; fi
        if [[ $titlenum == "" ]]; then titlenum=2 ; fi

        #The actual work
        curl -s --connect-timeout 30 $uri |\
        sed -e 's/<\/title>/\n/g' |\
        grep -o '<title>.*' |\
        sed -e 's/<title>//' |\
        head -n $(($lines + $titlenum)) |\
        tail -n $(($lines))

fi

change file permissions:

Code:

chmod 700 conky-rss.sh

edit conkyrss:

Code:

# Screen size = 1440x900
own_window yes                
own_window_colour brown            
own_window_transparent yes        
own_window_type desktop        
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes            
text_buffer_size 2048 #1024            
use_xft yes                
alignment tr                
gap_x 5                    
gap_y 44

TEXT 
${execi 300 /home/jj/conky-rss.sh }

and ran it with:

Code:

conky -c conkyrss

output:
rss.png

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