Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[bfc]

For some quite disturbing reason I've been obsessed with Conky for the last few days.

Well... here is what I've come up with, I'm likely going to continue tweaking (for some reason I find myself becoming perfectionist, another disturbing trend), but, for most part its finished.

For the sidebar, I actually have 2 conky sessions running, and have them positioned so they overlap each other, it was the only way I could get the formating the way I wanted.

First weather script

# conky configuration
TEXT
 ${voffset 5}${color1}${font Conkyweather:size=30}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=CAXX0054 --datatype=WF}${font}


${color3}${alignc}${font Liberation Mono:size=8}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=CAXX0054 --datatype=DW --startday=1 --endday=4 --shortweekday --spaces=4}
${voffset -2}${color4}${hr}${font}
${color1}${alignc}${font Conkyweather:size=12}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=CAXX0054 --datatype=WF --startday=1 --endday=4 --spaces=7}${font}
${color3}${alignc}${font Liberation Mono:size=8}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=CAXX0054 --datatype=PC --startday=1 --endday=4 --spaces=4}${font}
${alignc}${font Liberation Mono:size=8}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=CAXX0054 --datatype=HT --hideunits --startday=1 --endday=4 --spaces=4}${font}
${alignc}${font Liberation Mono:size=8}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=CAXX0054 --datatype=LT --hideunits --startday=1 --endday=4 --spaces=5}${font}
${color4}${hr}${font}
${font Liberation Mono:size=8}${color white}CPU Usage:        CPU%   MEM%
${color red} ${top name 1}${alignr 7} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color B7C100} ${top name 2}${alignr 8} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color f1e600} ${top name 3}${alignr 8} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color white}MEM usage:
${color red} ${top_mem name 1}${alignr 8} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${color B7C100} ${top_mem name 2}${alignr 8} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${color f1e600} ${top_mem name 3}${alignr 8} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}

Second weather script, overlaps the first

# conky configuration
TEXT
${color3}${font Liberation Mono:size=8}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=CAXX0054 --template=/usr/share/conkyforecast/example/conkyForecast.template --startday=0}

The top bar, well, nothing too interesting going on here.

TEXT
${voffset 0}${color} RAM: ${color 17C3D1}$memmax  $memperc%  ${membar 6,30}${color} | Core0: ${color 17C3D1}${font}$freq_g Ghz  ${cpugraph cpu1 9,25 red}  ${execi 1 sensors | grep "Core 0" | cut -c15-18}C ${color}| Core1: ${color 17C3D1}${font}$freq_g Ghz  ${cpugraph cpu2 9,25}  ${execi 1 sensors | grep "Core 1" | cut -c15-18}C${color} | Server${color 17C3D1} ${fs_bar 6,40 /home/archive}  ${fs_free /home/archive} Free${color} | Uptime: ${color 17C3D1}${font}${uptime_short}${color} | Mail: ${execpi 300 python ~/scripts/gmail_parser_changes.py user.name password 0 |grep new}${color} | Artist:${if_running amarokapp} ${color 17C3D1}${execi 10 /home/monty/conky-arch_updates/amarok artist}$endif${color}  Title:${if_running amarokapp} ${color 17C3D1}${execi 10 /home/monty/conky-arch_updates/amarok title}${color}$endif |${color} Battery: ${color 17C3D1}${font}${battery}${color}

I would like to thank everybody in this thread who I've borrowed ideas and likely some code from.

[thebigfatgeek]

I came across this thread last night whilst looking for a way to monitor my 9 node DVD::RIP cluster, and I was stunned by the ability of conky. Played around with some scripts last night and configured the system more or less to my liking, including AWN dock and two embedded terminal screenlets on the left (the top one automatically starts up with top, to provide full system info without having to have the overhead in conky). I did try a two way conky configuration, but kept on getting segmentation errors on the second configuration (top 10), and decided afterwards to go the screenlet route.

background yes
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
use_spacer yes

use_xft yes
xftfont Snap.se:size=12
xftalpha 0.1

update_interval 1.0
draw_shades no
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
stippled_borders 3
border_margin 9
border_width 10
default_color white
own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
gap_x 10
gap_y 25
# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes


#  FOR MY INFO
# last month
# ${font DejaVu Sans Mono :size=8}${execi 60 cal -3 | cut -c00-22}
# this month
# ${execi 60 cal}
# next month
# ${execi 60 cal -3 | cut -c45-64}$font
# this month and next month
# ${font DejaVu Sans Mono :size=8}${execi 60 cal -3 | cut -c23-64}$font

# For international dates & times ${tztime} see: /usr/share/zoneinfo
# Leave 3 blank lines below TEXT to clear panels
# add this line below TEXT to test things, remove when finished.

#${color cyan}Fix me: CPU Temp: ${color white}${acpitemp}C $color
#${color red}Test Cmds Above ${hr 3} $color

TEXT
${color orange}${hr 1}${color}
${color orange}PARIS${alignr}${color white}${tztime Europe/Paris %H:%M:%S}$color
${color orange}JOHANNESBURG${alignr}${color cyan}${color white}${tztime Africa/Johannesburg %H:%M:%S}$color
${color orange}CHESAPEAKE${alignr}${color cyan}${color white}${tztime America/New_York %H:%M:%S}$color
${color orange}TIANJIN${alignr}${color cyan}${color white}${tztime Asia/Shanghai %H:%M:%S}$color
${color orange}${font :size=12}LONDON ${hr 2}$color
${font LCDDisplayCapsSSi:style=Bold:pixelsize=72}${alignc}${time %H:%M:%S}${font Snap.se:size=12}
${font :size=12}${alignc}${time %A, %d %b. %y}$color
${color orange}${font :size=12}CALENDER ${hr 2}$color
${font DejaVu Sans Mono :size=12}${exec cal}
${font DejaVu Sans Mono :size=11}${exec cal -3 | cut -c23-44 --complement}$font
${color orange}${font Snap.se:size=12}${font :size=12}SYSTEM INFORMATION ${hr 1}$color
${color orange}UpTime ${color cyan}(${color white}${exec whoami} @ $nodename${color cyan})${color orange}${alignr}$uptime $color
${color orange}CPU: ${color white}${cpu}% ${color orange}${cpubar cpu0} $color
${color cyan}Freq: ${color white}$freq ${color cyan}MHz ${color cyan}     Running: ${color white}$running_processes ${color cyan}of ${color white}$processes${color cyan}processes $color
${color cyan}Load Avg (${color yellow}Min${color cyan}):$alignr${color yellow}1: ${color white}${loadavg 1}      ${color yellow}5: ${color white}${loadavg 2}     ${color yellow}15: ${color white}${loadavg 3} ${color orange}$color
${color orange}MEM: ${color cyan}RAM: ${color white}$memperc% ${color cyan}(${color white}${mem} ${color cyan}of ${color orange}${memmax}${color cyan}) ${color orange}$membar $color
${color orange}DISK: ${color cyan}Swap: ${color white}$swapperc% ${color cyan}(${color white}$swap ${color cyan}of ${color orange}${swapmax}${color cyan})${color orange} ${swapbar}$color
${color orange}HD Info ${hr 1} $color
${color cyan}Cluster:${alignr}${color white}${fs_free_perc /}% ${color cyan}(${color white}${fs_used /} ${color cyan}of ${color orange}${fs_size /}${color cyan})$color
${color orange}ETH0 ${color cyan}(${color white}${addr eth0}${color cyan}) ${color orange}${hr 1} $color
${color cyan}Down: ${color white}${downspeedf eth0}k/s ${alignr}${color cyan}Up: ${color white}${upspeedf eth0}k/s $color
${color cyan}Total: ${color white}${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}${color cyan}Total: ${color white}${totalup eth0} $color
${color orange}ETH1 ${color cyan}(${color white}${addr eth1}${color cyan}) ${color orange}${hr 1} $color
${color cyan}Down: ${color white}${downspeedf eth1}k/s ${alignr}${color cyan}Up: ${color white}${upspeedf eth1}k/s $color
${color cyan}Total: ${color white}${totaldown eth1} ${alignr}${color cyan}Total: ${color white}${totalup eth1} $color
${color orange}${hr 1}$color
${color cyan}Inbound: ${color white}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count}          ${color cyan}Outbound: ${color white}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}${alignr}${color cyan}Total: ${color white}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count} $color
${color orange}Connections ${color white}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count} ${alignr} ${color orange}Service/Port $color${color white}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 0} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 0}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 1} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 1}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 2} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 2}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 3} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 3}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 4} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 4}
${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 5} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 5}$color

First thing this morning saw a reasonably, but cheap, Nvidia card go in to enable Compiz to achieve full transparency on the terminal screenlets, and there we were.

My system is setup as a 1 Master/8 Node cluster, and I only use the master for ripping, with encoding left to the other 8 machines. It is therefore not affected by the slightly higher CPU demand of Compiz and Conky. As a matter of fact I can rip, encode and watch my movies all at the same time without lag on the Master node, and that is only a 1600MHz AMD Athlon single core CPU with 1Gb ram, so it is quite an efficient method.

Any way, screenshot is attached below. including my conky file. You need some specific fonts, which I found from googling. Nothing here is original, and comes from working my way through this forum (no sleep last night) and taking bits and pieces I liked. A good help was to print the list of variables and commands from the Conky website.



Thank you for everyone's contribution, it was great to see the creativity and the helpfulness of everyone on this thread.

PS:QAM8STUD is not some pron movie for all you with filthy minds (lol) it is Quantitative Analysis For Management Studies (for my MBA)

[Bruce M.]

For some quite disturbing reason I've been obsessed with Conky for the last few days.

Trust me! You are not alone and a lot longer than days.

Well... here is what I've come up with, I'm likely going to continue tweaking (for some reason I find myself becoming perfectionist, another disturbing trend), but, for most part its finished.

I've stopped saying it's finished. There is always something new.

For the sidebar, I actually have 2 conky sessions running, and have them positioned so they overlap each other, it was the only way I could get the formating the way I wanted.

Let me guess, you have one sleeping longer then the other to make sure it comes in last, overlapping the first one that has a blank space in it.

I tested that ... it doesn't work for me, can you post your # conky configuration ... please ... please ... please.

Thinking, man how I hate begging!

SEE: something new, for me, I never thought of that. But you have me thinking now.

[thebigfatgeek]

Hi bfc, how do you get the code window in your post, it is much better than having a file attachement for the conky script. Cheers

[Bruce M.]

Hi bfc, how do you get the code window in your post, it is much better than having a file attachement for the conky script. Cheers

Sorry bfc, got here first.

Code Window...

When creating a post or responding to a post take a look at the Menu on top: second row ... see the # symbol - that opens the (code) (/code) command (although with square [] brackets.

like this - but [] brackets

(CODE)like this - but [] brackets(/CODE)

Have a nice day.
Bruce

[bfc]

Trust me! You are not alone and a lot longer than days.



I've stopped saying it's finished. There is always something new.



Let me guess, you have one sleeping longer then the other to make sure it comes in last, overlapping the first one that has a blank space in it.

I tested that ... it doesn't work for me, can you post your # conky configuration ... please ... please ... please.

Thinking, man how I hate begging!

SEE: something new, for me, I never thought of that. But you have me thinking now.

Files are attached.. I start conkyrcweatherbak4 first, followed by conkyrcweatherbak3. If I start them in reverse, the conkyrcweatherbak4 is covered by conkyrcweatherbak3.

Hope this helps!

[thebigfatgeek]

Great stuff, thanks!!

[thebigfatgeek]

Thank you Bruce for the response. I had to go to first go to my User CP to set the editor from basic to full WYSIWYG, and can now use the editor in all its glory.

[Bruce M.]

Files are attached.. I start conkyrcweatherbak4 first, followed by conkyrcweatherbak3. If I start them in reverse, the conkyrcweatherbak4 is covered by conkyrcweatherbak3.

Hope this helps!

OK, thanks... will look at it.

CHIMO!
Bruce

[Bruce M.]

Thank you Bruce for the response. I had to go to first go to my User CP to set the editor from basic to full WYSIWYG, and can now use the editor in all its glory.

I have mine set to Standard.

WYSIWYG

is too scary for me.

But if it works for you - go fo it.

CHIMO!
Bruce