Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[Niemil]

Okey.

I tried doing that and after I had saved and were going to test, I detected that now Conky aren't running at all. Tried write conky in the ALT+F2 place, also tried write "conky &" , but also didn't work, nothing came up.
So I restarted computer and now it somehow doesn't work at all.
Wrote Conky in the terminal and it gave me this http://screencloud.net/v/gZuk

[stinkeye]

Change back to own_window_type normal .
No need to keep restating...just log out/in if you must.
You can also reload a running conky after a config change with...

killall -SIGUSR1 conky

I'm off to bed. Go back to start of my posts and read link for hdd and cpu temps.
Downloaded conky configs need to be edited for your computer.
eg run...

blkid

and change the config to read the drives you have.
/dev/sdb may need to be /dev/sda and then you'll need to install hddtemp anyway.

[Niemil]

Ah okey well, thanks for the help!
I will look into the code and really try understand it etc. If I don't get it working I just let it be.
May try out other conky scripts in the thread and play around with the knowledge I so far have right now.
And hddtemp I already have installed, went throught the installation again, doing the sensor commands etc.

[stinkeye]

To get hdd temperature change line#99 of your conky config.
At the end of that line you'll see ${exec hddtemp /dev/sdb -n}°C
Change for your drive.

Allow conky to read hddtemp as non-root.
Run in a maximized terminal else it may complain "Dialogue frontend requires a screen at least 13 lines tall and 31 columns wide."

sudo dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp

When asked "Should /usr/sbin/hddtemp be installed SUID root?"...choose yes.
Use tab to move and spacebar to select.
Leave the other choices as default.


For cpu temp you need lm-sensors installed.

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors

Then run...

sudo sensors-detect

You will be prompted for a response to (YES/no):
As "YES" is capitalized just pressing enter will choose yes.
Answer yes to all questions.
A couple of prompts will be of the form (yes/NO). Make sure to type in yes for these ones.

Now run...

sensors

...and you should see something like...

glen@Raring:~$ sensors
it8720-isa-0228
Adapter: ISA adapter
in0:          +0.99 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
in1:          +1.92 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
in2:          +3.38 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
+5V:          +3.01 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
in4:          +3.07 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
in5:          +1.06 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
in6:          +3.38 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
5VSB:         +3.02 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
Vbat:         +3.26 V  
fan1:        2636 RPM  (min =    0 RPM)
fan2:           0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM)
fan3:        1147 RPM  (min =    0 RPM)
fan5:           0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM)
temp1:        +37.0°C  (low  = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C)  sensor = thermistor
temp2:        +38.0°C  (low  = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C)  sensor = thermal diode
temp3:        +80.0°C  (low  = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C)  sensor = thermistor
cpu0_vid:    +1.250 V
intrusion0:  ALARM

k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +32.5°C  (high = +70.0°C)
                       (crit = +72.0°C, hyst = +70.0°C)

.
Post your output from sensors as you will need help to grep the right value and use this in conky.

[Andy_Browning]

Does hddtemp work:
10 Nov 13 | 11:20:11 ~

    $ hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: WDC WD2500AAJS-00VWA0: 31°C
 
 10 Nov 13 | 11:20:24 ~
    $ hddtemp /dev/sda -n
31
 
 10 Nov 13 | 11:20:30 ~
    $

If yes in conky all you need is:

${hddtemp /dev/sda}°

After I installed hddtemp then typed in the code you gave I get this:

/dev/sda: ST3120022A: 35*
and
35

(my keyboard doesn't seem to have the degree symbal or I'm getting blind in both eye's)

What am I going to use as the degree symbal?
I might actually have one in my phones virtual keyboard? Could transfer .conky.rc to phone and edit after renaming?

PS: Can't spell today either.

[Petro Dawg]

Just copy and paste the degree symbol from an existing code posted on this thread.

[Andy_Browning]

Duh! Don't I feel smart today.

Thanks Petro Dawg.

[Sector11]

Duh! Don't I feel smart today.

Thanks Petro Dawg.

Hey, we all have our "DUH!" days ... I have at least one DUH moment per day, make's em interesting!

Here, I have a few extra: ° ° ° ° ° ° ° °

Also make sure you use a font that can display the ° symbol.

[Habitual]

$(printf \\260)

[Sector11]

$(printf \\260)

OK ... obviously I'm a noob looking for a place to burst out....

  12 Nov 13 | 18:17:29 ~
    $ $(printf \\260)
bash: $'\260': command not found
 
 12 Nov 13 | 18:17:52 ~
    $ printf \\260
� 
 12 Nov 13 | 18:18:12 ~
    $ (printf \\260)
� 
 12 Nov 13 | 18:18:27 ~
    $

Educate me please.