Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[Bruce M.]

It's always made me wonder... python is using 3.32 WHAT???

Gee, I've always assumed (and we both know how that breaks up) that it was %. So I checked the docs and you're right, it might be one of these:

bit, byte, exabit, exabyte (EB), gigabit, gigabyte (GB), kilobit, kilobyte (KB), megabit, megabyte (MB), petabit, petabyte (PB), terabit,
terabyte (TB) or a potato!


{In my best George Carlin voice, toned down to be G rated}

They JUST don't say! Just maybe it's light years and no one is telling us! Wait a second, Python you say! It could be pounds per square inch as it wraps around your "deepest darkest "inner core"!!! Holy crushed computers Batman! The python just bit a byte out of his terabehind!!

I have to wonder, is this only taking a single core into account?

Well Apples only have one! Ummm, that would be a Granny Smith type apple, I hear the Mac's can have two or more.

An explanation of these values would be greatly appreciated. A way to actually qualify the values in my conky output may have me kneeling before Your Conkyness.

That's OK, you may stand as you can probably tell, I am not "Your Conkyness, and don't have any "real" answers for you!

But I couldn't help responding.

SERIOUSLY: Great questions.

Have a great day!
Bruce

[Crinos512]

I'm going to venture the guess that it's % of max. (CPU or MEM)

that would be consistant with the results from top

[londonali1010]

Here's a question for the experts:

If you look at the screenshot in my last post, you'll see a section labeled "Highest CPU" and another next to it labeled "Highest RAM". Below this is a couple of columns listing processes, and numbers next to them. What exactly do these numbers mean? Is that an actual amount of processor speed and RAM that is currently being used, or is it a percentage? Either way, is it possible to have conky assign a qualifier to these values? Knowing that python is using 3.32% of my RAM is one thing, but seeing that python is using 3.32 is another. It's always made me wonder... python is using 3.32 WHAT???

And since I just looked at the code again and saw:

${color #dd0000} ${top name 1}${top_mem cpu 1} $alignr ${color #dd0000} ${top_mem name 1}${top_mem mem 1}
${color purple} ${top name 2}${top cpu 2} $alignr ${color purple} ${top_mem name 2}${top_mem mem 2}
${color purple} ${top name 3}${top cpu 3} $alignr ${color purple} ${top_mem name 3}${top_mem mem 3}
${color purple} ${top name 4}${top cpu 4} $alignr ${color purple} ${top_mem name 4}${top_mem mem 4}
${color purple} ${top name 5}${top cpu 5} $alignr ${color purple} ${top_mem name 5}${top_mem mem 5}
${color purple} ${top name 6}${top cpu 6} $alignr ${color purple} ${top_mem name 6}${top_mem mem 6}

I have to wonder, is this only taking a single core into account?

An explanation of these values would be greatly appreciated. A way to actually qualify the values in my conky output may have me kneeling before Your Conkyness.

Top and top_mem use percentages of CPU usage and memory usage, respectively (the same as the terminal command 'top' does by default). There is a config setting, top_cpu_separate, which if set to "yes", means that top will only show the usage of ONE cpu's power, if set to "no", it will show the usage of the combined power of all processors. It works it out by the CPU time devoted to that process vs. the CPU time total for either the single or combined cores. I don't know what default is, but I would assume that it's "no", since cpu graphs and such in Conky show the total by default.

[searchOne]

Hello together,
I have made to myself with a small Shell-Script a "horizontal" calendar for Conky, see picture!

[dmillerct]

Hello together,
I have made to myself with a small Shell-Script a "horizontal" calendar for Conky, see picture!

Looks Great, Can you post the script? Is there an option to turn off displaying the days of the week?

[searchOne]

Hello, here is the Script, save as conkycal.sh in the /home folder:

#!/bin/bash
MONAT=`date +%m`
JAHR=`date +%Y`
MTAGE=`cal $MONAT $JAHR | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -v ^$ | tail -n 1`
for ((START=1; START <= $MTAGE; START+=1));do
   DATE="$JAHR-$MONAT-$START"
   k[$START]=$(date +%a -d $DATE)
   t[$START]=$(printf "%2d" $START)
done
echo "${k[@]}"
echo "${t[@]}"

and this is the .conkyrc:

${font Capture it:size=12}${time %B %Y }
${font Luxi Mono:size=10}${execpi 60 DAY=`date +%d`; /home/search/conkycal.sh | sed '$ s/ / /g' | sed /" $DAY "/s/" $DAY "/" "'${color orange}'"$DAY"'${color}'" "/}

The actual weekday is displayed with "orange" that can be changed, however, in the line in.conkyrc, (see selection!).

[Giant Speck]

You have 2 options:
1. I believe someone already told you to use $rss

${rss "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/Giant_Speck/recenttracks.rss" 0.016 item_title 3 spaces_in_front}

2. Install python "feed-parser" and make python script
Example of python script is there
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...postcount=8967
You use it that way:

${execi 1 weatherRSS.py "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/Giant_Speck/recenttracks.rss" 0}

Thought you must change this script because it shows both tilte and description tags but you need only title tag and all of them from feed, so read about "feed-parser" and it's option here:
http://www.feedparser.org/

Sorry for the long delay, but I figured this out well before you posted this.

I found a script on cli-apps.org called ag.fm:

#!/bin/sh
#
# ag.fm -- a trivial script echoing sb's recently listened Last.fm tracks.
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Written by Tomasz 'odder' Kozłowski <odder.wiki@gmail.com>.
# Released into the public domain.
#
# The script requires w3m to run.
#

## Defining the variables seems to be a good thing to do first. ##
login=Giant_Speck
ad=http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/$login/recenttracks.rss
## The file w3m will download the RSS into. I suggest ~/.tmp ##
f=/home/jesse/.conky/last.fm/tmp.txt

## There shouldn't be any need to change the following until we know ##
## how to make bash print the w3m-and-sedded file in multiple lines. ##
first=`sed -n '1p' $f`
second=`sed -n '2p' $f`
third=`sed -n '3p' $f`
fourth=`sed -n '4p' $f`
fifth=`sed -n '5p' $f`

## The 'real' code follows. ##
if [ `ping -c1 195.24.233.53 | grep from | wc -l` -eq 0 ]    # Check the Internet connection & print the following
    then                            # message if the network's down.
        echo "The server is currently unreachable."
    else
        # Get and edit the RSS properly.
        w3m -dump $ad | grep title | sed -n '2,6p' | sed 's/         <title>//' | sed 's/<\/title>//' > $f

echo "$login's recently played Last.fm tracks:"
echo "   #1: $first" > /home/jesse/.conky/last.fm/first.txt
echo "   #2: $second" > /home/jesse/.conky/last.fm/second.txt
echo "   #3: $third" > /home/jesse/.conky/last.fm/third.txt
echo "   #4: $fourth"
echo "   #5: $fifth"
    fi

#EOF

I deleted everything in red and added everything in blue. Basically, the script downloads the necessary RSS information in a temp file from which the rest of the script takes and echos to three specific files within my conky folder.

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont ITCFranklinGothic LT MedCn:size=12

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# 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
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type panel
own_window_title conky-panel
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,above

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 280 5

maximum_width 1400

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
#border_margin 5

# border width
#border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color 545144
#default_shade_color white
#default_outline_color 000000
#own_window_colour 363330

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 10
gap_y 0

# 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

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none

TEXT
${execi 5 /home/jesse/Scripts/conkylastfm.sh}${color BAB296}${execi 5 cat /home/jesse/.conky/last.fm/third.txt | head -n1}    ${color 7D7865}${execi 5 cat /home/jesse/.conky/last.fm/second.txt | head -n1}    ${color 545144}${execi 5 cat /home/jesse/.conky/last.fm/first.txt | head -n1}

My conky then prints the information from all three files onto the desktop.

Here is the result:



Thanks to PandoraFM, a nifty script, and conky, I can now display what is playing in Pandora right on my desktop!

[dannymichel]

i followed this tutorial
http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/05/...tu-jaunty.html
but mine looks like this

the letters v,r,m,s and j instead of the images.
http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/05/...tu-jaunty.html

[kaivalagi]

i followed this tutorial
http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/05/...tu-jaunty.html
but mine looks like this

the letters v,r,m,s and j instead of the images.
http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/05/...tu-jaunty.html

I have reviewed the site you linked and to be honest the tutorial has various holes in it. Those letters will be output like this unless the appropriate fonts required are installed. There is reference to my package repo I am assuming because my conkyForecast package need to be installed to provide the fonts - however it is not. You could try to install it using the following in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install conkyforecast

If you require forecast output may I suggest an alternative and that you visit my conkyForecast thread where you will find detailed installation info in the first post and help from others if required. The thread can be found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869328

Hope that helps

[NeoFax]

I am getting these errors:

Conky: desktop window (1e0001e) is subwindow of root window (13c)
Conky: window type - panel
Conky: drawing to created window (0x5c00001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: not implemented obj type 47
Conky: not implemented obj type 47
ERROR: Unknown option in config file: MAXIMUM_DAYS_FORECAST
ERROR: Unknown option in config file: BASE_XOAP_URL
Conky: not implemented obj type 47
Conky: not implemented obj type 47
Conky: not implemented obj type 47
Conky: not implemented obj type 47
sh: /home/terry/conky-calender-horiz: not found
Conky: defining struts
Conky: not implemented obj type 47


The last line runs to infinity. I copied the conkyrc from deviantart and here is the part that breaks:

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont Droid Sans:size=12

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# 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
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type panel
own_window_title conky-panel
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,above

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 280 5

maximum_width 1400

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
#border_margin 5

# border width
#border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color 545144
#default_shade_color white
#default_outline_color 000000
#own_window_colour 363330

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 10
gap_y 0

# 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

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none

TEXT

${image ./pix/cwb.png  -s 1440x70 -p -0,15}${image ./pix/cbg.png  -s 64x64 -p 1133,18}${voffset 15}${execpi 10800 ~/.tonky/sh/conkyForecast.py -w -t ~/.tonky/conkyForecast.template} ${image ./pix/System/Task_Manager.png  -s 64x64 -p 270,18}${image ./pix/System/Memory.png  -s 64x64 -p 470,18}${image ./pix/System/Clock2.png  -s 64x64 -p 670,18}${image ./pix/System//wlan100.png -s 70x70 -p 870,10}