Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[dannyboy79]

crhumber, I like your setup. very clean. I may have to copy it. I have to say I am also impressed by your core2quad. if that's what it is. May I ask what in the world you do that requires you to have that sort of processing power?

[crhumber]

Thanks dannyboy! I've sent you a private message

[dannyboy79]

well that's really cool. i wish I could afford a core2quad that's for sure. even if I didn't need it I'd still buy it if I could afford it!

[sanderella]

Please will someone tell this dizzy little old lady what a .conkyrc file is?
In words I can understand, a short explanation will do. Thanks:

[el mariachi]

Please will someone tell this dizzy little old lady what a .conkyrc file is?
In words I can understand, a short explanation will do. Thanks:

It's a file where you configure the program conky (that cool looking system monitor that sits in a lot of people's desktop showing CPU/Memory/NET/Disk usage etc.)
in the file you use variables that configure the way conky behaves and looks.
These sites have some of these variables:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
The file itself is located in you home folder (~/.conkyrc)
and since it has a dot ( . ) preceding the name it means it's hidden.

Hope it helped

[jrny99]

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

out_to_console no

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=10

own_window_transparent yes
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

on_bottom no

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 320 5
maximum_width 320


# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 10

# 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 30
gap_y 13
#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 yes
TEXT


${color red} ${hr 2}
${color white}COMPUTER: $nodename
KERNEL: $sysname $kernel
UPTIME: $uptime
${color blue}TODAY'S DATE: ${time %A %e %B %G}
TIME NOW: ${time %H:%M:%S}
${color red} ${hr 2}
${color}CPU USAGE: ${cpu}% ${cpubar}
RAM USAGE: $mem/$memmax - $memperc% $membar
SWAP USAGE: $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar}
${color blue} ${hr 2}
DRIVE /home: ${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home} ${fs_bar /home}
${color red} ${hr 2}
${color red} Address:${color red}${addr eth0}$alignr${color red}TCP Connections:${color red}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
DOWNLOAD SPEED: ${downspeed eth0} k/s
TOTAL DOWNLOADED: ${totaldown eth0}
${color}UPLOAD SPEED: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color}TOTAL UPLOADED: ${totalup eth0}
${color blue}${downspeedgraph eth0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff}${color blue}${upspeedgraph eth0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff}





${color white}GMail ${hr 2}
${color white}Email: ${color green}${execi 300 python ~/conky_scripts/gmail.py}

Connections: ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count} ${alignr} Service/Port
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 0} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 0}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 1} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 1}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 2} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 2}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 3} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 3}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 4} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 4}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 5} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 5}

[sanderella]

It's a file where you configure the program conky (that cool looking system monitor that sits in a lot of people's desktop showing CPU/Memory/NET/Disk usage etc.)
in the file you use variables that configure the way conky behaves and looks.
These sites have some of these variables:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/config_settings.html
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
The file itself is located in you home folder (~/.conkyrc)
and since it has a dot ( . ) preceding the name it means it's hidden.

Hope it helped

Thanks, there are some awsome results, but it's all a bit above my head

[herbster]

Thanks, there are some awsome results, but it's all a bit above my head

Just go here and it should be all you need:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205865

[walkerk]

minimal

[Richardky]

here is mine

# maintain spacing between certain elements
use_spacer yes

# set to yes if you want tormo to be forked in the background
#background yes

use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-9
#xftfont Andale Mono-9
#xftfont Clean-9
#xftfont cubicfive10:pixelsize=10
#xftfont squaredance10:pixelsize=14
#xftfont swf!t_v02:pixelsize=12

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.65

mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 230
maximum_width 320

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no # amplifies text

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color grey90
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color DarkGrey

# 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
gap_x 10
gap_y 25

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

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

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

## IF I WANT TO ADD THE WEATHER BACK IN...
#${color #ffcb48}WEATHER$color ${color #ffcb48}${hr 2}$color
# ${execi 1800 /home/jeff/.conky-weather/weather.sh 02155}
##

## IF I WANT THE HDD TEMPERATURE BACK IN...
# temp:$color ${hddtemp /dev/sda}
##

## IF I WANT BATTERY STATE BACK IN...
#${color #ffcb48}BATTERY STATE$color ${color #ffcb48}${stippled_hr}$color
# $battery (time left: ${battery_time})
##

TEXT

$color
${color yellow}System ${hr 2}$color
${color white}$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine 
Uptime:$uptime
${color white}${time %A %B %e, %G} ${color #00ff00}${time %I:%M:%S}${time %p} ${time %Z}

${color yellow}Cpu ${hr 2}$color
${color white}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'}
${color green}${freq_dyn_g}Ghz
 
${color white}Usage:${color green}${cpu}% ${color #DFDFDF}${cpubar}
${color #DFDFDF}${cpugraph} ${color #DFDFDF}
${color white}Processes:${color green} $processes ${color white}Running:${color green} $running_processes ${color white}Cpu:${color green} ${acpitemp}C${color white}

${color yellow}HDD ${hr 2}$color
 ${color white}used:${color green} ${fs_used_perc /}% ($fs_used/$fs_size) $alignr ${color white}
 ${color #DFDFDF}${fs_bar 6 /}$color
 ${color white}disk IO:${color green} $diskio
 ${color #DFDFDF}${diskiograph #DFDFDF}$color

${color yellow}RAM ${hr 2}$color
 ${color white}RAM used:${color green} $memperc% ($mem/$memmax)
 ${color #DFDFDF}${membar 6}$color
 ${color white}swap used:${color green} $swapperc% ($swap/$swapmax)
 ${color #DFDFDF}${swapbar 6}$color

${color yellow}NETWORKING ${hr 2}$color
${color white}Down: ${color green}${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}${color white}Up:${color green} ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color #DFDFDF}${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 FF8200 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 
25,140 FF0000 FF9900}$color
${color white}Total: ${color green}${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}${color white}Total:${color green} ${totalup eth0}
${color white}Inbound:${color green} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} 
${color white}Outbound:${color green} ${tcp_portmon 32768 
61000 count}${alignr}${color white}Total:${color green} ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${if_running mpd}
${color #ffcb48}MUSIC$color ($mpd_status) ${color ffcb48}${stippled_hr}$color
 $alignr shuffle[$mpd_random] repeat[$mpd_repeat]
 $alignc${color 98c2c7}$mpd_artist$color::${color c2c798}$mpd_album$color
 $alignc${mpd_track} $mpd_title
 $mpd_elapsed ${mpd_bar 5,222} $alignr $mpd_length
$endif