Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

**eyemou** · August 9th, 2007

A couple of quick questions (the answers may be hidden within all of these pages, but I couldn't find them):

a. Is there a way to prevent some of the indicators from jumping around a bit, horizontally? To better explain, as my CPU usage changes, percent-wise, it could be displayed as either a 1, 2 or 3 digit number. When the usage jumps from say, 1% to 20%, everything shifts over one character.

Is there a way to "fix" the position of indicators and their text labels? Or perhaps change the format to display as three digits (i.e. a range of 000-100%)? Just to keep things in place / from jumping about as memory and CPU usage fluctuates.

b. How does one bold a specific span of text. I'd like to give each "section" in my setup a bolded title, in the same font/color as all of the other text.

c. How does one set a specific set length for an fs_bar element? The only way that I can control this at present is to put only 1 fs_bar per line, and control it via the width of the entire conky display.

d. This one isn't so important, as I found a transparent look that I liked. But still... how does one get a solid background, and what exactly controls the color of that background? It's funny, as some people seemed to be having a problem with transparency. I can't get rid of it (I swear I even set the transparency setting to off, and nothing happened).

If it helps any, I'm using KDE.

Thanks!

And thanks to everyone who posted all of the examples in the previous posts, as those really helped me out.

**PurposeOfReason** · August 9th, 2007

B. You'd do something like ${font Dejavu Sans:bold:size=15}
C. Taken from a random conky.

${cpugraph 20,130}

The 20 and 130 are height and width

**spupy** · August 10th, 2007

My small conky setup - i want to see it always, thats why it has such odd form.
My conky.

Code:

own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

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

# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft no

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0

# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
font monospace
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 9

# border width
border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white

own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes

alignment		top_left
gap_x			0
#gap_y			0
gap_y			0

no_buffers		yes

#OLD COLOR1: #F09000
#NEW COLOR1: #14CEFF

TEXT
${color white}${mpd_smart} ${color #707070}${color white}
${color #14CEFF}${mpd_status}${color #707070}:${color white}${mpd_percent} 
${color #707070}(${color white}${mpd_elapsed}${color #707070}/${color white}${mpd_length}${color #707070})
${color #14CEFF}Uptime${color #707070}: 
${color white}$uptime
${color #14CEFF}Battery${color #707070}:${color white}${execi 1 acpi | sed -e 's/[A-Za-z]//g' | cut --bytes=12-14}
${color #14CEFF}CPU${color #707070}:  ${color white}${cpu}%
${color #14CEFF}RAM${color #707070}:  ${color white}$memperc%
${color white}$mem ${color #707070}
${color #14CEFF}Swap${color #707070}: ${color white}$swapperc%
${color #14CEFF}ath0${color #707070}: ${color white}${linkstatus  ath0}
${color #14CEFF}Down/Up${color #707070}: 
${color white}${downspeed ath0}${color #707070}/${color white}${upspeed ath0}${alignr}${color #14CEFF}
${color #14CEFF}Root${color #707070}:
${color white}${fs_free /}
${color #14CEFF}Home${color #707070}:
${color white}${fs_free /home}

For eyemou's question 'D':
You must have this:

Code:

own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes

I was wondering the same thing as you. But it seem this line uses only words for color, not color in the form of #XXXXXX.

Can anyone help me? I need to set background color, but "green" or "blue" doesn't satisfy me.

**corney91** · August 10th, 2007

Originally Posted by spupy

I was wondering the same thing as you. But it seem this line uses only words for color, not color in the form of #XXXXXX.

Can anyone help me? I need to set background color, but "green" or "blue" doesn't satisfy me.

For own_window_colour the '#' needs to be omitted and it should work.

Eyemou: To stop conky moving around you need to use:

Code:

use_spacer yes

This only works for mono fonts though.

**eyemou** · August 10th, 2007

Thanks -- I'll have to test that out once I get home.

I also plan on testing out:

own_window yes
own_window_type override

To see if that will take care of disappearing desktop icons issue that I neglected to mention as item "E".

That shouldn't mess thing up in KDE, will it? I guess I was a bit thrown off by the notes in the defauly conkyc saying that the "own_window" things were required for nautilus. Not using nautilus, I bet I commented them out....

Well, I guess I'll see once I get home.

**HarshReality** · August 11th, 2007

spupy... ya got that zen thing going on

Looks great but I would have used a x gap of 5 or 10

**garymc1** · August 11th, 2007

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background no

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

out_to_console no

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 7x12
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
#font 8x13
#font 7x12
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
#font -artwiz-snap-normal-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8

own_window_transparent no
#own_window_colour hotpink
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar
own_window_type override

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 260 5
maximum_width 640

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders no

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#minimum_size 10 10
gap_x 10
gap_y 26
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer no

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

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

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti

# Possible variables to be used:
#
# Variable Arguments Description
# acpiacadapter ACPI ac adapter state.
# acpifan ACPI fan state
# acpitemp ACPI temperature.
# adt746xcpu CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
# adt746xfan Fan speed from therm_adt746x
# battery (num) Remaining capasity in ACPI or APM
# battery. ACPI battery number can be
# given as argument (default is BAT0).
# buffers Amount of memory buffered
# cached Amount of memory cached
# color (color) Change drawing color to color
# cpu CPU usage in percents
# cpubar (height) Bar that shows CPU usage, height is
# bar's height in pixels
# downspeed net Download speed in kilobytes
# downspeedf net Download speed in kilobytes with one
# decimal
# exec shell command Executes a shell command and displays
# the output in torsmo. warning: this
# takes a lot more resources than other
# variables. I'd recommend coding wanted
# behaviour in C and posting a patch

.
# execi interval, shell Same as exec but with specific interval.
# command Interval can't be less than
# update_interval in configuration.
# fs_bar (height), (fs) Bar that shows how much space is used on
# a file system. height is the height in
# pixels. fs is any file on that file
# system.
# fs_free (fs) Free space on a file system available
# for users.
# fs_free_perc (fs) Free percentage of space on a file
# system available for users.
# fs_size (fs) File system size
# fs_used (fs) File system used space
# hr (height) Horizontal line, height is the height in
# pixels
# i2c (dev), type, n I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev
# may be omitted if you have only one I2C
# device. type is either in (or vol)
# meaning voltage, fan meaning fan or temp
# meaning temperature. n is number of the
# sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on
# your local computer.
# kernel Kernel version
# loadavg (1), (2), (3) System load average, 1 is for past 1
# minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for
# past 15 minutes.
# machine Machine, i686 for example
# mails Mail count in mail spool. You can use
# program like fetchmail to get mails from
# some server using your favourite
# protocol. See also new_mails.
# mem Amount of memory in use
# membar (height) Bar that shows amount of memory in use
# memmax Total amount of memory
# memperc Percentage of memory in use
# new_mails Unread mail count in mail spool.
# nodename Hostname
# outlinecolor (color) Change outline color
# pre_exec shell command Executes a shell command one time before
# torsmo displays anything and puts output
# as text.
# processes Total processes (sleeping and running)
# running_processes Running processes (not sleeping),
# requires Linux 2.6
# shadecolor (color) Change shading color
# stippled_hr (space), Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
# (height)
# swapbar (height) Bar that shows amount of swap in use
# swap Amount of swap in use
# swapmax Total amount of swap
# swapperc Percentage of swap in use
# sysname System name, Linux for example
# time (format) Local time, see man strftime to get more
# information about format
# totaldown net Total download, overflows at 4 GB on
# Linux with 32-bit arch and there doesn't
# seem to be a way to know how many times
# it has already done that before torsmo
# has started.
# totalup net Total upload, this one too, may overflow
# updates Number of updates (for debugging)
# upspeed net Upload speed in kilobytes
# upspeedf net Upload speed in kilobytes with one
# decimal
# uptime Uptime
# uptime_short Uptime in a shorter format
#
# seti_prog Seti@home current progress
# seti_progbar (height) Seti@home current progress bar
# seti_credit Seti@hoome total user credit

# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter
# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network
# stuff because of an argument
#${font Dungeon:style=Bold

ixelsize=10}I can change the font as well
#${font Verdana:size=10}as many times as I choose
#${font Perry:size=10}Including UTF-8,
# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
#${font Grunge:size=12}${time %a %b %d}${alignr -25}${time %k:%M}

TEXT
${color #0077ff}$sysname $kernel $machine - $nodename
${color #0077ff}Today is ${color lightgrey}${time %A, %d %B %Y}
${color #0077ff}The Time is ${color lightgrey}${time %H:%M.%S}${alignr}${color #0077ff}Uptime:${color lightgrey} $uptime

${color #0077ff}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'} ${color lightgrey}${freq_dyn}Mhz
${color #0077ff}Usage: ${color lightgrey}${cpu}% ${color #FCFF00}${cpubar}
${color #0077ff}${cpugraph 000000 FCFF00}
${color #0077ff}Processes:${color lightgrey} $processes ${color #0077ff}Run:${color lightgrey} $running_processes
${color #0077ff}CPU Usage PID CPU% MEM%
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color #0077ff} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color #0077ff} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}

${color #0077ff}RAM:${color lightgrey} $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${alignr}${color #FF8E00}${membar 5,110}
${color #0077ff}SWP:${color lightgrey} $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${alignr}${color #FF8E00}${swapbar 5,110}
${color #0077ff}Mem Usage
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${color #0077ff} ${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${color #0077ff} ${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}

${color #0077ff}HD IO: ${color lightgrey}${diskio}
${color #0077ff}${diskiograph 000000 00EA01}
${color #0077ff}Hard Disks:
${color #0077ff} Root ${color lightgrey}${fs_used /}/${fs_size /}${alignr}${color #00EA01}${fs_bar 5,120 /}
${color #0077ff} Home ${color lightgrey}${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home}${alignr}${color #00EA01}${fs_bar 5,120 /home}

${color #0077ff}Network: ${color lightgrey}${addr eth1}
${color #0077ff}Down:${color lightgrey} ${downspeed eth1} k/s $alignr${color #0077ff} Up:${color lightgrey} ${upspeed eth1} k/s
${color #0077ff}${downspeedgraph eth1 27,120 000000 FF0000 180} $alignr${color #0077ff}${upspeedgraph eth1 27,120 000000 FF0000 25}
${color lightgrey}${totaldown eth1} $alignr${color lightgrey}${totalup eth1}
${color #0077ff}Port(s)${offset 48}Connections:
${color #0077ff} ALL: ${color lightgrey}${alignc}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
${color #0077ff} 1 - 1024:${color lightgrey}${alignc}${tcp_portmon 1 1024 count}
${color #0077ff} 1025 - 65535:${color lightgrey}${alignc}${tcp_portmon 1024 65535 count}

${color #0077ff}Remote Address:${alignr} Local Service/Port:
${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 0}
${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 0}${alignr}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 0}
${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 1}${alignr}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 1}
${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 2}${alignr}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 2}
${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 3}${alignr}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 3}
${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 4}${alignr}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 4}
${color lightgrey}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 5}${alignr}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 lservice 5}
${color #0077ff}Fortune ${color #000000}${hr 2}
${color lightgrey}${execi 120 fortune -s | fold -w50}

**corney91** · August 11th, 2007

Here's my latest:
.conkyrc:

Code:

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Terminus:size=14
xftalpha 0.8
mail_spool $MAIL
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0

own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_colour 7D191B
own_window_hints undecorated below sticky skip_taskbar skip_pager

double_buffer yes
minimum_size 5 5
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black

alignment top_left
gap_x 5
gap_y 25

no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
use_spacer no

TEXT
${font Terminus:Bold:size=14}${time %H:%M:%S} ${font Terminus:size=8}${color aeaeae}${alignr}Uptime: $color$uptime
$font${time %a,}${time %e %B %G}

.conkyrc2:

Code:

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
mail_spool $MAIL
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0

own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_colour 701618
own_window_hints undecorated below sticky skip_taskbar skip_pager

double_buffer yes
minimum_size 1024 5
draw_shades yes
draw_outline yes
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black

alignment bottom_left
gap_x 5
gap_y 3

no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
use_spacer yes

TEXT
${color aeaeae}CPU Temp: $color${acpitemp} | ${color aeaeae}CPU Usage: $color$cpu% | ${color aeaeae}RAM: $color${membar 5,54} | ${color aeaeae}Harddrive: $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} | ${color aeaeae}Network: $color${exec iwconfig eth1 | sed 's/  /\n/g' | grep ESSID | sed 's/ESSID:"//'| sed 's/"//'} | ${color aeaeae}IP: $color${addr eth1} ${offset 6}| Up   Speed: $color${upspeed eth1}${offset 6}k/s | ${upspeedgraph eth1 8,80 440c09 f17f1f}
|||||||||||||||| ${cpugraph 8,90 0000ff 00ff00} | ${color aeaeae}Swap:$color${swapbar 5,54} | ${fs_bar 5,168 /} | ${color aeaeae}Network Status: ${offset 30}$color${linkstatus eth1}% | ${color aeaeae}Total Down: $color${totaldown eth1}| Down Speed: $color${downspeed eth1}k/s | ${downspeedgraph eth1 8,80 440c09 f17f1f}

.conkyrc3:

Code:

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
mail_spool $MAIL
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0

own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_colour 701618
own_window_hints undecorated below sticky skip_taskbar skip_pager

double_buffer yes
minimum_size 50 5
draw_shades yes
draw_outline yes
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black

alignment bottom_left
gap_x 5
gap_y 32

no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
use_spacer no


TEXT
${color aeaeae}Highest CPU:
 ${color de0b0b}${top name 1}${top cpu 1}
 $color${top name 2}${top cpu 2}
 ${top name 3}${top cpu 3}
 ${top name 4}${top cpu 4}

${color aeaeae}Highest MEM:
 ${color de0b0b}${top_mem name 1}${top_mem mem 1}
 $color${top_mem name 2}${top_mem mem 2}
 ${top_mem name 3}${top_mem mem 3}
 ${top_mem name 4}${top_mem mem 4}

${color aeaeae}Processes: $color$processes | ${color aeaeae}Running: $color$running_processes

**eyemou** · August 11th, 2007

So... I'm getting the "disappearing desktop icons" problem. It's not the end of the world, as I keep a clean desktop, anyhow, but it would be nice if it stopped.

Now the problem seemed to start after loading the dbe module in xorg.conf and enabling double-buffering. Is there a way to stop this / did I miss something in the "own_window" settings?

own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window transparent no
own_window_colour FE6D00

background yes

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft yes
#xftfont Domestic Manners
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0
# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 250 0
# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
#font Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

border_margin 1
border_width 10

default_color yellow
default_shade_color 000000

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 5
gap_y 5

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
SYSTEM
${voffset -5}${hr 1}
UPTIME: $uptime
CPU: ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar}
RAM: $mem / $memmax ($memperc%) ${membar}
SWAP: $swap / $swapmax ($swapperc%) ${swapbar}

DRIVES
${voffset -5}${hr 1}
HOME: ${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home} ${fs_bar 6 /home}
FLAC: ${fs_used /home/rich/flac} / ${fs_size /home/rich/flac} ${fs_bar 6 /home/rich/flac}

NETWORK (${addr eth0})
${voffset -5}${hr 1}
DOWNSPEED (KB/s): ${downspeed eth0} (${totaldown eth0} total)
UPSPEED (KB/s): ${upspeed eth0} (${totalup eth0} total)