Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[sbjaved]

Just as stinkeye said, in unity/ubuntu 12.04 conky's panel mode is not fully effective. I like what sector11 is able to do with openbox but is there any way to solve this problem in unity?

[VinDSL]

Sorry, for popping into the middle of your Q&A, but...

I just added VLC Player Titles to my .conkyrc

GNOME 3 Staging || Liquorix 3.7.0-10 Kernel || nVidia 304.84 || Plank || ConkyWX 0.7.9

If anyone is interested: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...1#post12560764

Carry on...

[boudiccas]

I've come back to fine-tuning my conky setup which has been working well for several months, and I'm trying to add in monitoring my trash file, and I have this stanza in it;-
${offset 240}TRASH: ${fs_free /home/boztu/.local/share/Trash/files}
which gives a figure of 2.57G which is how much free is left on the main hard drive
${offset 240}TRASH: ${fs_size /home/boztu/.local/share/Trash/files}
gives a figure of 287G, which is obviously wrong as the actual total is 3.2G.

How then do I get the right figure please?

Thanks
Sharon.

[Kaspro]

Hello everyone, i'm new to conky and i need a guide to setup a simple conky, or simply a conky config file, all i need is to show the processor activity and temp, network activity (down/up) and the weather. That's it

[Sector11]

For me, in unity/compiz, the reserved space when using own_window_type panel
is only observed when a window is maximized.

If I use own_window_type panel I get the same results as sbjaved - maximized windows go under it. Maybe there is another setting I need for that to work right. Or at least like you have

Could you post the top part of a conky that respects panels ... it will help with the elimination process.

I've always used "margin settings" and windows can be dragged over those as well.

@ sbjaved - ummmm install OpenBox! <<--- just joking. Wish I could help more.

[Sector11]

I've come back to fine-tuning my conky setup which has been working well for several months, and I'm trying to add in monitoring my trash file, and I have this stanza in it;-
${offset 240}TRASH: ${fs_free /home/boztu/.local/share/Trash/files}
which gives a figure of 2.57G which is how much free is left on the main hard drive
${offset 240}TRASH: ${fs_size /home/boztu/.local/share/Trash/files}
gives a figure of 287G, which is obviously wrong as the actual total is 3.2G.

How then do I get the right figure please?

Thanks
Sharon.

Trash is a strange animal. To the best of my knowledge it's part of the system - your trash is there, root's trash gets reported as well I believe. I too asked the same type of question a long time ago after I got lost with it.

However a much wiser person than I, whom I don't recall, came up with this line:

Show IF there are files in Trash - ${execi 60 du -sh ~/.local/share/Trash/files/ | awk '{print $1}' | sed '/^4.0K/ d'  | sed 's/$/ of TRASH /'}

It will tell you how much trash there is and if none, it shows nothing. Hope this helps:

[Sector11]

Hello everyone, i'm new to conky and i need a guide to setup a simple conky, or simply a conky config file, all i need is to show the processor activity and temp, network activity (down/up) and the weather. That's it

Check my signature for a guide to setting up conky

A simple config file with what you want is not as simple as you think it is.

Processor activity - single core? Dual core - quad or more?

Temperatures - you need to install lm-sensors and hddtemp to start wilth and configure those to work with your system.

Weather - You will need to install "curl" for this. Now, while conky has a native weather command to get weather from NOAA it's not the best and has it's problems. There are various scripts for weather, again see my signature for three, they need varing degrees (pardon the pun) of work on your part setting them up for your location:

1. v9000 LUA - has a couple of working examples. Probably the most complicated - but worth the effort
2. Teo's x4 Sites - has at least one working example for each of the 4 scripts, from simple to "The Weather Man"
3. Arclance - and interactive weather using various sites to get all the possible info available. "The Super Weather Man"

Network - ethX, wlanX ????

I would suggest you start with:

sudo apt-get install conky-all lm-sensors hddtemp curl

Here is a "very basic conky" that makes two assumptions: your drive is /dev/sda and you use eth0
Save it to: ~/.conkyrc once you have done the apt-get mentioned above.

# killall conky && conky -c ~/.conkyrc &
###  Begin Window Settings  ##################################################
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type normal
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,sticky,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
#own_window_colour gray
own_window_class Conky
own_window_title Simple Default Conky

# Use the Xdbe extension? (eliminates flicker)
# It is highly recommended to use own window with this one
# so double buffer won't be so big.
double_buffer yes

### ARGB can be used for real transparency
### NOTE that a composite manager is required for real transparency.
### This option will not work as desired (in most cases) in conjunction with
### own_window_type normal
# own_window_argb_visual yes

### When ARGB visuals are enabled, this use this to modify the alpha value
### Use: own_window_type normal
### Use: own_window_transparent no
### Valid range is 0-255, where 0 is 0% opacity, and 255 is 100% opacity.
# own_window_argb_value 80

minimum_size 235 0     ## width, height
#maximum_width 160       ## width

gap_x 5 # left-right
gap_y 5 # up-down

alignment top_right
###################################################  End Window Settings  ###
###  Font Settings  #########################################################
# Use Xft (anti-aliased font and stuff)
use_xft yes
#xftfont Liberation Sans:size=15
xftfont Monofur:bold:size=13

# Alpha of Xft font. Must be a value at or between 1 and 0 ###
xftalpha 0.8
# Force UTF8? requires XFT ###
override_utf8_locale yes

### WARNING ### These do NOT play well with /media/5/Conky/LUA/draw-bg.lua ###
draw_shades yes #### <<<--- yes --- To see it easier on light screens.
#default_shade_color black
draw_outline no #### <<<--- yes --- Amplifies text if yes
default_outline_color black
##############################################################################

uppercase no

######################################################  End Font Settings  ###
###  Color Settings  #########################################################
#default_shade_color black
#default_outline_color black

default_color DCDCDC #220 220 220	Gainsboro
color0 8FBC8F #143 188 143	DarkSeaGreen
color1 778899 #119 136 153	LightSlateGray
color2 FF8C00 #255 140   0	DarkOrange
color3 7FFF00 #127 255   0	Chartreuse
color4 FFA07A #255 160 122	LightSalmon
color5 FFDEAD #255 222 173	NavajoWhite
color6 00BFFF #  0 191 255	DeepSkyBlue
color7 00FFFF #  0 255 255	Cyan
color8 FFFF00 #255 255   0	Yellow
color9 FF0000 #255   0   0	Red
#####################################################  End Color Settings  ###
###  Borders Section  ########################################################
draw_borders no
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0
# border margins
border_inner_margin 5
border_outer_margin 0
# border width
border_width 0
# graph borders
draw_graph_borders yes
#default_graph_size 15 40
#####################################################  End Borders Secton  ###
###  Miscellaneous Section  ##################################################
# Boolean value, if true, Conky will be forked to background when started.
background yes

# Adds spaces around certain objects to stop them from moving other things
# around, this only helps if you are using a mono font
# Options: right, left or none
use_spacer none

# Default and Minimum size is 256 - needs more for single commands that
# "call" a lot of text IE: bash scripts
text_buffer_size 256

# Subtract (file system) buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# change GiB to G and MiB to M
short_units yes

# Like it says, ot pads the decimals on % values
# doesn't seem to work since v1.7.1
pad_percents 2

#   Maximum size of user text buffer, i.e. layout below TEXT line in config file
#  (default is 16384 bytes)
# max_user_text 16384

# Desired output unit of all objects displaying a temperature. Parameters are
# either "fahrenheit" or "celsius". The default unit is degree Celsius.

#temperature_unit Fahrenheit

##############################################  End Miscellaneous Section  ###

update_interval 1

TEXT
  Time:${alignr 5}${time %T}
  Date:${alignr 5}${time %x}
Uptime:${alignr 5}${uptime}

${alignr 5}%     Used  ↓  | Total
 Root ${fs_used_perc /}${alignr 5}${fs_used /} | ${fs_size /}
 Home ${fs_used_perc /home}${alignr 5}${fs_used /home} | ${fs_size /home}
  RAM ${memperc}${alignr 5}${mem} | ${memmax}
 Swap ${swapperc}${alignr 5}${swap} | ${swapmax}${font Monofur:size=6}

${font} CPU % Useage ${cpu cpu0}%${alignr 5}Avg ${cpu cpu0} %

${font} DISK Activity ${hr}
 R${goto 40}${diskiograph_read /dev/sda 14,130 00ffff ff0000 5 -lt}${alignr 5}${diskio_read /dev/sda}
 W${goto 40}${diskiograph_write /dev/sda 14,130 ff0000 00ffff 5 -lt}${alignr 5}${diskio_write /dev/sda}${font Monofur:size=6}

${font} NETWORK ${hr}
 Dn${goto 40}${downspeedgraph eth0 14,130 00ffff ff0000 5 -lt}${alignr 5}${downspeedf eth0}
 Up${goto 40}${upspeedgraph eth0 14,130 ff0000 00ffff 5 -lt}${alignr 5}${upspeedf eth0}

Start it in a terminal with: conky

[stinkeye]

If I use own_window_type panel I get the same results as sbjaved - maximized windows go under it. Maybe there is another setting I need for that to work right. Or at least like you have

Could you post the top part of a conky that respects panels ... it will help with the elimination process.

I've always used "margin settings" and windows can be dragged over those as well.

Hi Sector11,

In unity if

own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

is commented out it defaults to above.

If uncommented, own_window_type panel will use the below settings.

So I can make the conky panel above or below for unmaximized windows
while maximized windows observe the conky panels reserved area,
whether or not own_window_hints is used.

Don't think it's possible to do what sbjaved wants,
which I think is reserve a screen area.

[Sector11]

Hi ho stinkeye... been a bit.

Yea, not sure it's 100% doable anywhere. At least I have the "obconf" to set margins. and maximized windows respect those margins, even though I can stretch windows over those limits.

Nothing like that in Unity?

I'll have to run some test with what you gave me. Thank you.
I'll post results - the good, the bad and/or the ugly.

[Kaspro]

Thank you for your post, but it seems really difficult to config the weather and proc temp for now, i guess i have to study conky first to be able to do it