HOW TO: A Beginners Guide to Setting up Conky

[dreadkit.kat]

please help me cant figure out what is wrong since i followe deach and everystep.i dont get the CPU temp and the MB temperature and the HDD temperature right.It is always set to 0 c

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ndranil@indranil-desktop:~$ conky -c ~/conky/conkymainConky: /home/indranil/conky/conkymain: 30: no such configuration: 'on_bottom'
Conky: use_spacer should have an argument of left, right, or none.  'no' seems to be some form of 'false', so defaulting to none.
Conky: /home/indranil/conky/conkymain: 94: no such configuration: 'xmms_player'
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
Conky: desktop window (14000a7) is subwindow of root window (13c)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x3800001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found
Conky: statfs '/media/data': No such file or directory
sh: /home/indranil/.bin/hddconky: not found

[Bruce M.]

please help me cant figure out what is wrong since i followe deach and everystep.i dont get the CPU temp and the MB temperature and the HDD temperature right.It is always set to 0 c

I think you copied someones conky file and expected it to work, but their computer is different to yours. Like it says in the first post:

In terminal type (the -c is telling conky to load and run the file that follows):

conky -c ~/Conky/conkymain

and you'll see it, it may not be perfect for your setup, that's why I suggest you go to the threads mentioned above or even the default file: /etc/conky/conky.conf

Head over to: Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots and ask questions there.

Have a nice day.
Bruce

[mesuhas_sit]

Bruce... Thank you very much for this thread and howto... very usefull... and fun...


For all you Ubuntu beginers... Go through this and have fun...
It has all the elements of having fun with ubuntu right from getting stuff... using the terminal... modifying and customizing..... and you can see the fun looking at your friends face who look at your desktop...


I started modifying my ubuntu with CONKY... Have fun...

Bruce you

[emma00]

Paste a conky file from one of the posts in the threads above that you like into that empty file and save it


I did not get this from which thread do i have to paste the lines i did from some of the posts but its giving some errors.

[ankit singh]

Conky threads are always long so i will give a concise conlusion of what people should do(this note is not in detail,forgive me)
Conclusion(only For Lucid Lynx):
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install conky

sudo apt-get install conky-all

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and Download this script(i giving here my script,just click on it and firefox will pop some option.Hit the "save" option).This script will create a .conkyrc file and will also write everything.No tension here.Just do what i said

conky-builder.sh
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Now do the following steps:
1)Download this script in your home directory
2)Right click ->Permissions-> mark executable
3)Double click on the script and click "run"
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Now we need to create a script

now create a new file in any directory you want and name it "conky.sh"
Paste the following code in it

#!/bin/bash
sleep 30
conky &
exit 0

Close the file and make it executable (Right click ->properties->Permissions)
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Now go to System -> Startup applications and click "add" and after that put "Conky" as name and in place of location,you should put your script directory(conky.sh)
I m giving the screenshots
Screenshot.png
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Note if in the above step u see that there is already a conky added to start up then you should edit the location.(Once again in location you should write out the location of your script i.e conky.sh)
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After all this simple nooby steps,You will find magic on your desktop(Reboot may be required)
Look at this screenshot
Screenshot.jpg
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[martinblunn]

Hi Guys,

Just a quick question.
I want to use an animated wallpaper using XWinWrap. I know that doing so covers any desktop icons, but I cant find whether it also prevents Conky's from working. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about this.

Martin

[corrytonapple]

Thank you Bruce for this Guide. I spoke about Conky a bit in a How-To and I linked it to here. Thanks again.

[biltong]

Hi everyone, I've been using conky for a while now and moved on to a laptop. Everything works fine except the upspeed and downspeed of wlan0, there is simply no activity. My ifconfig only gives me only eth0 & wlan0.

UP: ${upspeed wlan0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 BEBEBE BEBEBE}
Down: ${downspeed wlan0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 BEBEBE BEBEBE}

The funny thing is that the signal strength does get displayed.
Signal: ${wireless_link_qual wlan0}% ${alignr}${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlan0}

Got any ideas.

[baraka607]

hi friends, i have managed to create some scripts so that some of you can use them in their conky, just try it and let me know what do you think.

the codes are:

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont HandelGotD:size=8
xftalpha 0.5
update_interval 4.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 200 5
maximum_width 220
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders no
default_color grey
default_shade_color red
default_outline_color green
alignment top_right
gap_x 12
gap_y 48
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no

TEXT
$sysname $kernel on $machine

Uptime $alignr $uptime
Load $alignr $loadavg
Temp: ${alignr}${acpitemp}C

Hostname $alignr $nodename
wlan0 $alignr ${addr wlan0}

Inbound $alignr ${downspeed wlan0} kb/s
${downspeedgraph wlan0}
Outbound $alignr ${upspeed wlan0} kb/s
${upspeedgraph wlan0}

$processes processes ($running_processes running)

CPU $alignr ${cpu cpu0}%
${cpubar cpu0}

MEM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membar

/ $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /}%
${fs_bar /}

/home $alignc ${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home} $alignr ${fs_free_perc /home}%
${fs_bar /home}

swap $alignc $swap / $swapmax $alignr $swapperc%
${swapbar}

${color white}NETWORK ${hr 1}${color}

Down ${downspeed ppp0} k/s ${alignr}Up ${upspeed ppp0} k/s
${downspeedgraph ppp0 25,107} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph ppp0 25,107}
Total ${totaldown ppp0} ${alignr}Total ${totalup ppp0}


NAME $alignr PID CPU
${top name 1} $alignr ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1}
${top name 2} $alignr ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2}
${top name 3} $alignr ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3}
${top name 4} $alignr ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4}
${top name 5} $alignr ${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5}

[Gotit]

I have conky running on 2 different machines without problem. However, I get a behavior on one of the machines I would like to have on the other, but can't figure out how to make it happen.

The behavior is that when I modify my .conkyrc file and save it, conky automatically reloads with the new settings. I really like this feature as I don't need to do a

killall conky && conky

Here's what I see in the terminal window when I save my modified .conkyrc file

Conky: '/home/gotit/.conkyrc' modified, reloading...
Conky: desktop window (14000a5) is subwindow of root window (15a)
Conky: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (0x2400002)
Conky: drawing to double buffer

Does anyone know how to make conky monitor the .conkyrc file and reload when it gets modified?