Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[QIII]

This one is a bit hard on resources. It's actually several conky instances using LUA.

http://i.imgur.com/tYdNNPj.jpg

I usually just go with this

http://imgur.com/cDXnzCx

[42dorian2]

This one is a bit hard on resources. It's actually several conky instances using LUA.

http://i.imgur.com/tYdNNPj.jpg

I usually just go with this

http://imgur.com/cDXnzCx

That's not a bad thing. Multiple Conky instances allows for more control over what Data you display. I, personally, have 5. Main, Weather, Calendar, Networking, and CPU. I don't need to know the weather, or the drive status, or the time/date display when all I want to do is track how much data I've used on the Internet, or how hot my CPU is running.

Yours looks great! From what I see, you're running very light, and quite efficient for what it's doing. Keep it up!

[Petro Dawg]

Got my Conky setup just about how I like it now. Including a simple Conky launcher and all my indicators working just the way I want them. Found an old post of mine (back when I knew what I was doing) and did some tweaking for things that just don't work the same way anymore.

By default, Ubuntu wasn't mounting the Windows partition at boot. I had to fix that; which required editing my fstab file to auto-mount the windows partition at boot so that Conky can see it and report it's capacity.

And for some reason the ${battery_...} commands don't work for me now, so had to figure out a new way to get battery status info.

Conkyrc

#conky performance settings  update_interval 1.5
  total_run_times 0
  cpu_avg_samples 4
  no_buffers yes 
  double_buffer yes
  override_utf8_locale yes
  max_specials 2000  
  text_buffer_size 6000
  max_user_text 75000 


#overall position of conky window
  alignment bottom_right
  gap_x 25
  gap_y 0
  minimum_size 185 740
  maximum_width 185


#overall appearance of conky window
  own_window yes
  own_window_type normal
  own_window_transparent yes
  own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky #,skip_pager,skip_taskbar
  draw_borders no
  draw_graph_borders yes
  default_outline_color 6FC73C
  own_window_argb_visual yes
  own_window_argb_value 255
  stippled_borders 0


#default text apperance
  use_xft yes
  xftalpha 1
  xftfont Alfios:size=12
  default_color E5E5E5 #E2D6C8 #FFFFFF 
  draw_shades 1
  draw_outline no
  default_shade_color black
  default_outline_color black 
  uppercase no


#border around graphs
  draw_graph_borders no


#colors 
  color1 D9B591 #main headings
  color5 A6DE83 #subheadings
  color9 DEB49B #dot
  color0 6FC73C #bars


TEXT


${color1}${font Alfios:size=12:bold}BATTERY${font}${color}\
${alignr}${color}${execp upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 | awk '/state:/ {print $2}'}
${color0}${battery_bar BAT0}


${color1}${font Alfios:size=12:bold}CPU${font}${alignr}${color}${freq_g}GHz
${color0}${cpubar cpu1 6,90}${alignr}${cpubar cpu2 6,90}${color}
${color5}Temperature${color}${alignr}${execp sensors k10temp-pci-00c3 | awk '/temp1:/ {print $2}'}


${color1}${font Alfios:size=12:bold}RAM${font}${color}${alignr}${memmax} Max
${color0}${membar 6}
${color5}Swap Space${alignr}${color0}${swapbar 6,90}


${color1}${font Alfios:size=12:bold}TOP         ${font Alfios:bold:size=11}CPU%  MEM%${font Alfios:size=10}
${color} ${top name 1} ${goto 90}${top cpu 1} ${goto 145}${top mem 1}
${color} ${top name 2} ${goto 90}${top cpu 2} ${goto 145}${top mem 2}
${color} ${top name 3} ${goto 90}${top cpu 3} ${goto 145}${top mem 3}
${color} ${top name 4} ${goto 90}${top cpu 4} ${goto 145}${top mem 4}


${color1}${font Alfios:size=12:bold}STORAGE${font}
${color5}Linux${color}${alignr}${fs_free /} Free
${color0}${fs_bar 6 /}
${color5}Windows${color}${alignr}${fs_free /media/greg/28E86FE8E86FB32C} Free
${color0}${fs_bar /media/greg/28E86FE8E86FB32C}


${color1}${font Alfios:size=12:bold}NETWORK${font}${color}${alignr}${wireless_essid wlan0}
${color5}Signal Quality${alignr}${color0}${wireless_link_bar 6,90 wlan0}
${color5}DLS${color0}  ${downspeedgraph wlan0 12,80 -l}${color}${alignr}${totaldown wlan0}
${color5}ULS${color0}  ${upspeedgraph wlan0 12,80 -l}${color}${alignr}${totalup wlan0}${font}


${color1}${font Alfios:size=11:bold}${time %^b %Y}${color}${alignr}${font}${time %l:%M %p}
${font DroidSansMono:size=11}${color5}${execpi 60 VinDSL_Cal_9=`date +%-d`; cal -h | sed -e 's/\r//g' -e 's/^/ /g' -e '1d' -e s/^/"\$\{offset -10"\}/ -e 's/\<'"$VinDSL_Cal_9"'\>/${font DroidSansMono:size=11:bold}${color}&${font DroidSansMono:size=11}${color5}/'}${font}

ConkyMain.command

#!/bin/bash
conky

Conky.desktop

[Desktop Entry]Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/home/greg/Programs/Conky/ConkyMain.command
Icon=conky
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=Conky
GenericName=Conky
StartupNotify=false
Categories=system
StartupWMClass=Conky

This is a simplified version of my old multi-conky launcher. It seams the line defining the StartupWMClass is needed now to prevent a double icon issue that didn't used to happen.

Full Screenshot
Conky Full Screenshot from 2015-08-22 22:14:40.jpg Conky Close Screenshot from 2015-08-22 22:15:56.png <--- Closer View

Conky Launcher Screenshot from 2015-08-22 22:15:26.png<-- Custom launcher

Slowly but surely, after my long time away from Ubuntu and Conky, I am getting back into the swing of things.

[brydonhunter]

I decided to add more to my configuration.

Screenshot from 2015-08-23 12:08:02.jpg

[brydonhunter]

Looks great Pedro Dawg!

Simple, to the point and clean... nice job

[Petro Dawg]

Looks great Pedro Dawg!

Simple, to the point and clean... nice job

Thanks. I've always default to the minimalist approach, however I do like the look of the elements in many of the LUA based scripts. I figure there would be no end in sight if I started chasing the LUA rabbit down the Conky trail. As it is, I spend hours fidgeting with color and alignment with these simple Conkys; I've adjusted my script several times since I've posted the last one that I said I had "just the way I wanted".

[NyteRukh]

i know this is not probably the place to post this question, i have reinstalled ubuntu on my laptop and had conky for a while..the question i have is that i used to have .conkyrc in a directory, but it would still work if i type conky in the terminal. now i cant get it to work if its in the directory and not in /home/user how would i remedy this situation

[CantankRus]

If you run...

conky

conky uses the config @ ~/.conkyrc (hidden file in your home directory)
If this file does not exist it will use the default config @ /etc/conky/conky.conf


To use any other config you must specify the path to a config with the -c option.
eg

conky -c ~/conky/myconkyconfig

myconkyconfig can be named anything you wish.

[NyteRukh]

ok thankyou for your reply

[42dorian2]

i know this is not probably the place to post this question, i have reinstalled ubuntu on my laptop and had conky for a while..the question i have is that i used to have .conkyrc in a directory, but it would still work if i type conky in the terminal. now i cant get it to work if its in the directory and not in /home/user how would i remedy this situation

This was, most definitely, the RIGHT place to ask this. If anyone knows where your conky config file is, was, or should be, it's the people in this thread. Relax.