Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

**dk75** · February 12th, 2013

Also, global array can be made to store this informations and file system query can be done every 5, 15 or more Conky loops.
And with ${fs_free} you need to know exactly name of device to query. it's ok with local disks, but what about USB sticks or portable USB disks? ${fs_free} is powerless with that.

**maboventi** · February 12th, 2013

Ok then,
this seems to be the optimal solution.
Thanks all for help.

**geertvandeweyer** · February 14th, 2013

Here's mine, running on kubuntu 12.10. It has the usual things + some customs:
- Monitor of remote HPC platform (torque)
- Todo.txt support, split up private vs work
- either MPD and spotify (with correct pause timer) support, depending on which one is running

It is in desktop background (but widgets can't cover it...), I use feh to put the wallpaper behind it.

[IMG]http://geertvandeweyer.zymichost.com/images/uploaded/desktop.png

configuration is a bit long, take a look here:
http://geertvandeweyer.zymichost.com...age=read&id=32

cheers !

**Jedcurtis** · February 25th, 2013

After a lot of tweaking and a little help from the master, Sector11, finally got it how I want it. Credits to McLovin for the bargraph.lua used in the left hand Conky, and to mrpeachy, for his mounted.lua, and also on the right side his v9000 weather script. Bottom right credits to VastOne, for the gmail parser and the awesome GMB Layouts! And thanks also to jst_joe, for getting rid of the green and replacing it with blue, in my favorite wallpaper!

**Sector11** · February 26th, 2013

Originally Posted by Jedcurtis

After a lot of tweaking and a little help from the master, Sector11, finally got it how I want it. Credits to McLovin for the bargraph.lua used in the left hand Conky, and to mrpeachy, for his mounted.lua, and also on the right side his v9000 weather script. Bottom right credits to VastOne, for the gmail parser and the awesome GMB Layouts! And thanks also to jst_joe, for getting rid of the green and replacing it with blue, in my favorite wallpaper!

OMG!!!!!!! A QuadCore - each a duel CPU for 8 CPU Chip!
I want one - like yesterday!

... and ... and ... am I reading that right: 32GB RAM?
That thing must just smoke along!

You looking to adopt anyone? Do your kids get one?

If so I'm available.

**os2** · February 26th, 2013

All that power and simply listening to music.

I shall post my SS shortly. It's based on Pinguy's original concept. Taken out alot of unnecessary frills/code and brought it up to date. I was hoping for a simple weather gadget, the task to be relatively "simple." It wasn't.

**Sector11** · February 27th, 2013

Originally Posted by os2

All that power and simply listening to music.

I shall post my SS shortly. It's based on Pinguy's original concept. Taken out alot of unnecessary frills/code and brought it up to date. I was hoping for a simple weather gadget, the task to be relatively "simple." It wasn't.

Pinguy's original concept? Interesting ... they have a whole flock of conkys. Looking forward to seeing which one you are talking about.

I use two scripts in one conky: conkyForecast and v9000 LUA (not Pinguy at all)

**os2** · February 27th, 2013

This is what I have in mind.

Simple and elegant.

Source:

http://forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Conky-How-to-Guide

**Sector11** · February 27th, 2013

Originally Posted by os2

This is what I have in mind.
Simple and elegant.

Source:
http://forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Conky-How-to-Guide

At Pinguy it says to use this: .conkyForecast.config

Code:

CACHE_FOLDERPATH = /tmp/
CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 5
EXPIRY_MINUTES = 5
TIME_FORMAT = %H:%M
DATE_FORMAT = %d-%m-%y
LOCALE = Poole, United Kingdom
XOAP_PARTNER_ID =
XOAP_LICENCE_KEY = UKXX0113
MAXIMUM_DAYS_FORECAST = 7
BASE_XOAP_URL = http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/<LOCATION>?cc=*&dayf=10&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=<XOAP_PARTNER_ID>&key=<XOAP_LICENCE_KEY>&unit=m

locale is not for where you are but a choice of languages that conkyForecast uses.

Typing conkyForecast --help in a terminal will show you:

Code:

  -L LOCALE, --locale=LOCALE
                        override the system locale for language output
                        (bg=bulgarian, cs=czech, de=german, es=spanish,
                        en=english, es=spanish, fj=fijian, fr=french,
                        it=italian, nl=dutch, pl=polish, ro=romanian,
                        sk=slovak, more to come)

What that conkyForecast.config file is missing is:

Code:

DEFAULT_LOCATION = UKXX0113 ##Poole, United Kingdom

conkyForecast help at Conky PitStop

Mine looks like this:

Code:

#=============================================#
# EXPERT SETTINGS, NOT REQUIRED TO BE ALTERED #
#=============================================#
#BASE_XOAP_URL = http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/<LOCATION>?cc=*&dayf=5&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=<XOAP_PARTNER_ID>&key=<XOAP_LICENCE_KEY>&unit=m
BASE_XOAP_URL = http://xml.weather.com/weather/local/<LOCATION>?cc=*&dayf=10&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=<XOAP_PARTNER_ID>&key=<XOAP_LICENCE_KEY>&unit=m

MAXIMUM_DAYS_FORECAST = 9

#===============================================#
# USER SETTINGS, EDIT BASED ON DOCUMENTED SETUP #
#===============================================#
CACHE_FOLDERPATH = /media/5/Conky/cache/
CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 5
EXPIRY_MINUTES = 30
TIME_FORMAT = %H:%M
DATE_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d
LOCALE = en
XOAP_PARTNER_ID =
XOAP_LICENCE_KEY =
DEFAULT_LOCATION = ARBA0009  #BsAs Argentina
AUTO_NIGHT = TRUE
PROXY_HOST =
PROXY_PORT = 8080
PROXY_USERNAME =
PROXY_PASSWORD =

Note:

Code:

XOAP_PARTNER_ID =
XOAP_LICENCE_KEY =

are no longer used.

That conky is using 30 exec(i or pi) commands to get the weather:

exec command

Executes a shell command and displays the output in conky. warning: this takes a lot more resources than other variables. I'd recommend coding wanted behaviour in C and posting a patch.

when one single execpi command with a template will get it all:

Code:

WEATHER ${hr 2}
${execpi 1800 conkyForecast --refetch --imperial --location=UKXX0113  --shortweekday --template=/media/5/conky/os2-cF.template}
${hr 2}

os2-cF.template

Code:

${alignc}[--datatype=CC]
${font ConkyWeather:style=Bold:size=40}[--datatype=WF]${goto 150}${font Arial Black:size=26}[--datatype=HT]${font}

${goto 70}[--datatype=DW --startday=1]${goto 125}[--datatype=DW --startday=2]${goto 180}[--datatype=DW --startday=3]${goto 235}[--datatype=DW --startday=4]
${goto 70}${font ConkyWeather:size=28}[--datatype=WF --startday=1 --endday=4 --spaces=2]${font}
${font DejaVu Sans:size=7}${goto 70}[--datatype=HT --startday=1 --hideunits --centeredwidth=3]/[--datatype=LT --startday=1 --hideunits --centeredwidth=3]${goto 125}[--datatype=HT --startday=2 --hideunits --centeredwidth=3]/[--datatype=LT --startday=2 --hideunits --centeredwidth=3]${goto 180}[--datatype=HT --startday=3 --hideunits --centeredwidth=3]/[--datatype=LT --startday=3 --hideunits --centeredwidth=3]${goto 235}[--datatype=HT --startday=4 --hideunits --centeredwidth=3]/[--datatype=LT --startday=4 --hideunits --centeredwidth=3]${font}
Location:${alignr}[--datatype=CN]
Feels Like:${alignr}[--datatype=LT]
Dew Point:${alignr}[--datatype=DP]
Chance of Precip:${alignr}[--startday=0 --datatype=PC]
Humidity:${alignr}[--datatype=HM]
Wind:${alignr}[--datatype=WS] - [--datatype=WD]
Pressure:${alignr}[--datatype=BR]
Visibility:${alignr}[--datatype=VI --imperial]
Sunrise:${alignr}[--datatype=SR]
Sunset:${alignr}[--datatype=SS]
Moon Phase:${alignr 8}[--datatype=MP] ${font MoonPhases:size=8}[--datatype=MF]${font}

Last Updated:${alignr}[--hideunits --datatype=LU]

The bottom weather is the template - using imperial. I don't have the "Weather" font.

Edited out the Current Condition between Dew Point and Chance of Precip

**joe0121** · February 28th, 2013

Here is my desktop now. I stole this config of the web. It is simplistic as I like it. Still working on the user section. I don't like how it displays the same user for every occurrence they are logged in. I also don't like how it's aligned that far right. I still want it over to the right but not completely on the edge.

Basically I want to know how many unique user that are logged in, what consoles they are using and there user name.

Code:

use_xft yes
xftfont Terminus:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_class conky-semi
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
background no
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 300 200
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
default_bar_size 150 5
default_gauge_size 20 20
imlib_cache_size 0
draw_shades no
alignment top_right
gap_x 5
gap_y 35
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
default_color ECEAE4
color1 9f907d
color2 01C400
 
 
 
TEXT
${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=12}${color Red1}Those who dare, win.
${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Red1}Info ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}Date                   ${alignr}${color slate grey}${time %a,}${color}${time %e %B %G}
${color1}Time            ${alignr}${color}${time %T}
 
${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Red1}System ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}Hostname        ${alignr}${color}${nodename}
${color1}${sysname}        ${alignr}${color}${kernel}-${machine}
${color1}CPU            ${alignr}${color}${freq_g}GHz in use
${color1}Loadaverage        ${alignr}${color}${loadavg 1} ${loadavg 2} ${loadavg 3}
${color1}Uptime            ${alignr}${color}${uptime}

${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Red1}Processors ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}Core 1        ${alignr}${color}${cpu cpu1}%  ${cpubar cpu1}
${color1}Core 2        ${alignr}${color}${cpu cpu2}%  ${cpubar cpu2}
${color1}Core 3        ${alignr}${color}${cpu cpu3}%  ${cpubar cpu3}
${color1}Core 4        ${alignr}${color}${cpu cpu4}%  ${cpubar cpu4}
${color1}Core 5        ${alignr}${color}${cpu cpu5}%  ${cpubar cpu5}
${color1}Core 6        ${alignr}${color}${cpu cpu6}%  ${cpubar cpu6}
 
${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Red1}Memory ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}Memory     ${color}${alignr}${memeasyfree} / ${memmax}
${color1}Currently    ${color}${alignr}${memperc}%   ${membar}
 
${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Red1}Filesystem ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}/        ${color}${alignc}${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} ${color}${alignr}${fs_free_perc /} %
${color}${fs_bar 5,300 /}
 
${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Red1}Networking ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}${color1}Ip        ${color}${alignr}${addr wlan0}
${color1}AP        ${color}${alignr}${wireless_essid wlan0}
${color1}Signal        ${color}${alignr}${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}${wireless_link_bar 10,100 wlan0}
${color1}Download    ${alignr}${color}${downspeed wlan0}${downspeedgraph wlan0 10,100}
${color1}Upload        ${alignr}${color}${upspeed wlan0}${upspeedgraph wlan0 10,100}
${color1}Total Down/Up    ${alignr}${color}${totaldown wlan0}${color1}/${color}${totalup wlan0}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}${color1}Ip        ${color}${alignr}${addr eth0}
${color1}Download    ${alignr}${color}${downspeed eth0}${downspeedgraph eth0 10,100}
${color1}Upload        ${alignr}${color}${upspeed eth0}${upspeedgraph eth0 10,100}
${color1}Total Down/Up    ${alignr}${color}${totaldown eth0}${color1}/${color}${totalup eth0}${endif}${endif}
 
${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Red1}Top Processes ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}${top name 1}     ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color1}${top name 2}     ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color1}${top name 3}     ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color1}${top name 4}     ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color1}${top name 5}     ${alignr}${color}${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}

${font AvantGardeLTMedium:bold:size=10}${color Red1}Users ${color slate grey}${hr 2}${font}
${color1}Number of users logged in:    ${alignr}${color}${user_number}
${color1}Currently logged in:        ${alignr}${color}${user_names}
${color1}Consoles in use:        ${alignr}${color}${user_terms}