Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[mrpeachy]

Hi,thanks this is what I got when I ran that command. I usually partition manually but I did not this time, and it looks like it has 2 ubuntu operating systems now, but no files marked home. Thank again for your help, I am learning a little at a time.

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       36472   292961308+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           36473       36497      194560   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           36497       77826   331973633    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           36497       36521      194560   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           41384       41627     1951744   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           41627       77826   290762752   83  Linux
/dev/sda8           36521       40486    31847424   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           40486       41383     7206912   82  Linux swap / Solaris

maybe looking in /etc/fstab might be more useful
will show you the mount points for each of those partitions

[wildmanne39]

Hi, Thanks to everyone that help me with getting conky to start, the last problem preventing it from starting I figured out on my own, I really appreciate the help, now I am going to move on to creating a calendar. I want to also add email, I use yahoo but I do not thing they allow me to connect with conky, if any one knows for sure please let me know. Also sence I am going to put 3 or 4 more conkys on my desktop, am I right in thinking I should create like .conkyrc, .conkyrc2 and so on so I will have different config files. Thanks in advance.

[42dorian]

Hi, Thanks to everyone that help me with getting conky to start, the last problem preventing it from starting I figured out on my own, I really appreciate the help, now I am going to move on to creating a calendar. I want to also add email, I use yahoo but I do not thing they allow me to connect with conky, if any one knows for sure please let me know. Also sence I am going to put 3 or 4 more conkys on my desktop, am I right in thinking I should create like .conkyrc, .conkyrc2 and so on so I will have different config files. Thanks in advance.

Calendar is easy. You have two routes, there's a very nice mrpeachy lua script you can use, or you can nab a very basic one from VinDSL. E-Mail, you probably don't want if you're using yahoo. Pop protocols aren't very developed or useful in the slightest when reporting messages.

Before jumping to multiple conky configurations, why don't you define what you want to do, why you want to do it, and see if there's a better way? You can have as many conky configurations as you like, and naming them doesn't matter. Once you're dealing with multiple configurations, you'll be changing your running command a little bit anyways. To something like this:

conky -c ~/path/to/script1/.scriptname1
conky -c ~/path/to/script2/.scriptname2

What you call the script doesn't matter after that point. You'll just be telling conky to run file x as a conky config, and file y as another conky config. I, personally, have .conkyrc.main, .conkyrc.network, and .conkyrc.clock. Other people just use .main, .bars, .whatever.

[wildmanne39]

Hi, thank you that information is very helpful.

[landwell]

Hi,thanks this is what I got when I ran that command. I usually partition manually but I did not this time, and it looks like it has 2 ubuntu operating systems now, but no files marked home. Thank again for your help, I am learning a little at a time.

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       36472   292961308+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           36473       36497      194560   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           36497       77826   331973633    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           36497       36521      194560   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           41384       41627     1951744   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           41627       77826   290762752   83  Linux
/dev/sda8           36521       40486    31847424   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           40486       41383     7206912   82  Linux swap / Solaris

maybe looking in /etc/fstab might be more useful
will show you the mount points for each of those partitions

Using:

 
df -h

in a terminal instead of the fdisk command will show the mountpoints of your partitions; that way you dont't have to open the /etc/fstab file.

[mrpeachy]

Using:

 
df -h

in a terminal instead of the fdisk command will show the mountpoints of your partitions; that way you dont't have to open the /etc/fstab file.

i knew there was a command that did that in the terminal
just couldn't remember what it was

i need to work on some bashrc aliases to remember this stuff

[landwell]

i knew there was a command that did that in the terminal
just couldn't remember what it was

i need to work on some bashrc aliases to remember this stuff

I use dfh and dfk as bash aliases for "df -h" and df -k", actually. The man page for df is worth reading, there are a lot of uses for that command that could be used in a .conkyrc.

[wildmanne39]

Hi, thank you to everyone that helped me I got the desk resized and everything is good with it now. I also want to thank everyone especially Sector11 for helping me with my weather template. I know have the weather up and running. Can anyone tell me the best email provider to use to be able to get email setup? Thanks again.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

I want to also add email, I use yahoo but I do not thing they allow me to connect with conky, if any one knows for sure please let me know.

Here is a Mr K conky script for email.

The PPA was updated on page 40

Read the first page for how the script is set up and read the last few pages for updates before you install.

hth

[42dorian]

@wildmanne39

Personally? I wouldn't use E-Mail at all. GMail, sure, there's a few ways to use it. But in general Conky is pretty useless and far too limited when using E-Mail.

Do yourself a favour and try to design something. I don't mean draw it out, I mean define what you want out of Conky. Write that out for yourself, describe the features you want. From there, take the amount of your screen you're willing to sacrifice for Conky, and subtract that from your screen resolution you're currently using.

This will really help you to see how much room you have for Conky, and what features you can afford to have. It may help you to better target your entire Conky at once, and perhaps we can speed you along your Conky Journey so to speak.

Now, if at any time I'm sounding patronizing or that I'm rushing you, I don't want you to think that. This is just some advice for you. You seem to come into the threads you post in, knowing nothing, starting nowhere, and doing one tiny bit of Conky, only to come back for more of the same. What I'd like to do is get you going on the overall picture, so that you can really pick up some experience with the layout.