Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[erictherev]

No probs

Thanks! My wife will love seeing that when she gets home from work.

[akahige]

I had a "flash of brilliance" about the ${if_running} issue that turned out to not be the solution that I'd hoped/expected. If ${if_running} doesn't like whatever the exaile process is calling itself today, why not create a shell script to call exaile and point ${if_running} to the launcher shell? (Since exaile, then, would be a child process of the launcher.)

The logic may have been sound, but ${if_running} doesn't seem to recognize launcher scripts of any flavor -- not the exaile test one, not my conky launcher, not the skype launcher (that skype creates on install) -- nothing. That's really odd.

Back to being frustrated...



EDIT:
I posted on this issue over at #conky and got some interesting pointers. One -- the most likely one to work, I think -- was suggested by someone who almost immediately jumped off the channel. Posting his proposed bash script to see if anyone can identify what I might have gotten wrong in pasting it out of the chat window:

PID=`pgrep exaile`
if [[ $PID != '' ]]; do
	echo $PID > ~/.exaile.pid
else
	rm ~/.exaile.pid
fi

This script is supposed to get called every minute by chron via this entry in crontab:

* * * * * ~/.conky_exaile_running

And lastly, this entry goes into conkyrc (or in this case the conkyExaile template):

${if_existing ~/.exaile.pid}
do stuff
${endif}

In keeping with my luck on this project, it doesn't work. If exaile is running, the bash script should create .exaile.pid -- but running it manually doesn't do anything. (Yes, I remembered to set it to 755.)

Am I missing something obvious...?

[x0x]

/etc/network/if-up.d/getpublicip

#! /bin/sh
wget -O /tmp/ip.html http://www.showmyip.com/simple/

~/.conkyrc

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048

#Comes from Light/Human

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0


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

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 180 0
maximum_width 315

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 0

# border width
border_width 0

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
#default_shade_color black
#default_outline_color white
own_window_colour white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 10
gap_y 35

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer right


# colours
color1 white
# light blue
color2 6892C6
# orange
color3 78BF39
# green
color4 78BF39
# red
color5 6892C6
TEXT
SYSTEM ${hr 2}
${font StyleBats:size=16}s${font}   Kernel:  ${alignr}${kernel}
${font StyleBats:size=16}0${font}   CPU0: ${cpu cpu0}% ${alignr}${cpubar 8,60 cpu0}
${font StyleBats:size=16}x${font}   CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${alignr}${cpubar 8,60 cpu1}
${color}${cpugraph 20,310}
  ${voffset -22}${color red}CPU${color}

${font StyleBats:size=16}0${font}   RAM:  $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}h${font}   SWAP: $swapperc% ${alignr}${swapbar 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}p${font}   Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}
${font StyleBats:size=16}L${font}   Load:${alignr} $loadavg
${font StyleBats:size=16}S${font}   Processes: ${alignr}$processes ($running_processes Running)

${color}Name          ${alignr}     PID       CPU     MEM
${color lightgrey} ${top name 1}${alignr}${top pid 1}   ${top cpu 1}   ${top mem 1}
${color} ${top name 2} ${alignr}${top pid 2}   ${top  cpu 2}   ${top mem 2}
${color} ${top name 3} ${alignr}${top pid 3}   ${top  cpu 3}   ${top mem 3}
${color} ${top name 4} ${alignr}${top pid 4}   ${top  cpu 4}   ${top mem 4}
DATE ${hr 2}
                                   ${font led:size=26}${time %I:%M:%S}${font}
${alignc}${font led}${time %A %d %Y}${font}
HD ${hr 2}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}o${font}   Root:
${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} $alignr${fs_bar 8,60 /}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}0${font}   Home:
${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home} $alignr${fs_bar 8,60 /home}
NETWORK ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}v${font}   Up: ${upspeed wlan0} kb/s $alignr${upspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}r${font}   Down: ${downspeed wlan0} kb/s $alignr${downspeedgraph wlan0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font}   Upload: $alignr${totalup wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font}   Download: $alignr${totaldown wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}Z${font}   Signal: ${wireless_link_qual wlan0}% $alignr${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14},${font}   Public IP:${color white}${alignr} ${execp cat /tmp/ip.html}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font}   Local Ip: $alignr${addr wlan0}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route ppp0}${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}x${font}   Local IP:${color white}${alignr} ${addr ppp0}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14},${font}   Public IP:${color white}${alignr} ${execp cat /tmp/ip.html}
${downspeedgraph ppp0 35,150 FF9933 33FF99} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph ppp0 35,150 FF9933 CC3300} 
${voffset -35}${color grey}Down:${color white}${downspeedf ppp0}Kbps${color grey}${alignr}Up:${color white}${upspeedf ppp0}Kbps${color grey}
${color grey}Down: ${color white}${totaldown ppp0} ${color grey}${alignr}Up: ${color white}${totalup ppp0}
${endif}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}v${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s $alignr${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}r${font}   Down: ${downspeed eth0} kb/s $alignr${downspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font}   Upload: $alignr${totalup eth0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font}   Download: $alignr${totaldown eth0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14},${font}   Public IP:${color white}${alignr} ${execp cat /tmp/ip.html}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font}   Local Ip: $alignr${addr eth0}
${endif}${else}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}5${font} Internet is Unavailable.
${endif}
${if_running exaile}
Exaile Music Player ${hr 2}
${execp conkyExaile --nounknownoutput --template=/home/c0re/.conkyExaile}
${endif}

~/.conkyExaile

Status:${alignr}${color1}[--datatype=ST]
Artist:${alignr}${color1}[--datatype=AR]
Album:${alignr}${color1}[--datatype=AL]
Title:${alignr}${color1}[--datatype=TI]
Rating:${alignr}${color1}[--datatype=RT]
Volume:                                              [--datatype=VO] ${color2}${execibar 60 conkyExaile --datatype=VO}${color}
Position:${alignr}${color1}[--datatype=PT]/[--datatype=LE] 
${color3}${execibar 60 conkyExaile --datatype=PP}${color}

[x0x]

I had a "flash of brilliance" about the ${if_running} issue that turned out to not be the solution that I'd hoped/expected. If ${if_running} doesn't like whatever the exaile process is calling itself today, why not create a shell script to call exaile and point ${if_running} to the launcher shell? (Since exaile, then, would be a child process of the launcher.)

The logic may have been sound, but ${if_running} doesn't seem to recognize launcher scripts of any flavor -- not the exaile test one, not my conky launcher, not the skype launcher (that skype creates on install) -- nothing. That's really odd.

Back to being frustrated...



EDIT:
I posted on this issue over at #conky and got some interesting pointers. One -- the most likely one to work, I think -- was suggested by someone who almost immediately jumped off the channel. Posting his proposed bash script to see if anyone can identify what I might have gotten wrong in pasting it out of the chat window:

PID=`pgrep exaile`
if [[ $PID != '' ]]; do
	echo $PID > ~/.exaile.pid
else
	rm ~/.exaile.pid
fi

This script is supposed to get called every minute by chron via this entry in crontab:

* * * * * ~/.conky_exaile_running

And lastly, this entry goes into conkyrc (or in this case the conkyExaile template):

${if_existing ~/.exaile.pid}
do stuff
${endif}

In keeping with my luck on this project, it doesn't work. If exaile is running, the bash script should create .exaile.pid -- but running it manually doesn't do anything. (Yes, I remembered to set it to 755.)

Am I missing something obvious...?

read this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...3&postcount=47

[smartboyathome]

"Anyone know of a (dingbat?) font which contains the RSS logo? I would like to use it in my conky."



I was surfing the net looking instead of working today. Came across some try-before-buy programs for Windows that will convert images -- png in my experiment -- to fonts. Almost got it to work. I created, installed, and even typed the rss logo in <gack> Word, but it was really buggy -- couldn't change back to a text font cleanly. Perhaps there is a Linux program that can do the same.

I tried this:
http://www.high-logic.com/fontcreator.html

and used the image from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

I guess I will have to make my own with FontForge.

[kaivalagi]

I guess I will have to make my own with FontForge.

If you create a svg in inkscape from an RSS image, you can work it into a new font in fontforge fairly easily, that's what I did with some of the old arrow fonts for my forecast script...

Inkscape has some options to help with svg creation off a standard image type like jpg or png

Hope that helps

[ddnev45]

This script looks interesting:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=.conkyrc

[Crinos512]

anyone know if there's a variable that will show the current ubuntu version? like 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex or something like that?

Try ${pre_exec lsb_release -d | cut -f 2| tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"}

[Solaris3k1]

Meh here's mine. I pulled it from here and did some minor modifications placement wise... added a Link Rate monitor as well as a Link Quality monitor and made my conky appear for my own username (epea)

Is there a variable to read user name? Right now I just have it displayed, but if my girlfriend decides she wants an account on here, I'll probably set one up for her...

I googled and didn't see anything... but I may have missed it or gotten confused.

Anyways...

Here's my conkyrc

background yes
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_colour red
own_window_transparent yes
double_buffer yes
use_spacer yes
use_xft yes
xftfont HandelGotD:size=8
xftalpha 0.5
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 999999
#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
#newly added (test parameters below)
minimum_size 300 5
maximum_width 300

TEXT
${color 696969}${hr 2}
${font :size=20}${color ffffff}${alignc}${time %I:%M}${time %p}$color$font
${font :size=12}${color ffffff}${alignc}${time %A, %d %b. %Y}$color$font
${color 696969}${hr 2}

${color ffffff}${voffset +5}${font OpenLogos:size=35} epea ${font}${voffset -30}${alignr}${font :size=8}${color ffffff}Kernel: ${font}$color$kernel
${alignr}${font :size=8}${color ffffff}Up Time: ${font}$color$uptime
${alignr}${font :size=8}${color #ffffff}Load: ${font}$color${loadavg}

${color ffffff}${font :size=9}Current Conditions${font}${color 696969}${hr 2}$color$font

${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Minneapolis, MN $font$color

${execi 3600 perl ~/Conky/scripts/weather.pl USMN0843 f w}
${voffset -30}$alignr${offset -50}${execi 3600 perl ~/Conky/scripts/weather.pl USMN0843 f t}
${voffset -25}$alignr${offset -60}${color ffffff}${font weather:size=45}${execi 3600 perl ~/Conky/scripts/weather.pl USMN0843 f cp}$font$color
${color ffffff}${font :size=9}CPU Information ${font}${color 696969}${hr 2}$color$font

${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Model:$color$font$alignr ${color 999999}${exec cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sort -u | cut -c 19-60}
${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Frequency:$color$font$alignr ${color 999999}$freq MHz
${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Temp: $color$font$alignr ${color 999999}${acpitemp} C
${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Processor Load:$color$font ${cpu cpu1}% ${color ffffff}$alignr${execi 8 sensors coretemp-isa-0000 | grep -A 1 'Core 0:' | cut -c 15-21 | sed '/^$/d'}$color
${cpubar cpu1} 

${color ffffff}${font :size=9}Memory Usage ${font}${color 696969}${hr 2}$color

${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Memory: ${alignr}$font$memperc%
${color }${membar}
${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Swap: ${alignr}$font$swapperc%
${color }${swapbar}$color

${color ffffff}${font :size=9}Processes ${font}${color 696969}${hr 2}$color$font

${color ffffff}${font :size=8}CPU      $alignr PID            CPU%        MEM%${font}$color
 ${top name 1} $alignr${top pid 1}         ${top cpu 1}         ${top mem 1} 
 ${top name 2} $alignr${top pid 2}         ${top cpu 2}         ${top mem 2} 
 ${top name 3} $alignr${top pid 3}         ${top cpu 3}         ${top mem 3} 

${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Memory      $alignr PID            CPU%        MEM%${font}$color
 ${top_mem name 1} $alignr${top_mem pid 1}         ${top_mem cpu 1}         ${top_mem mem 1} 
 ${top_mem name 2} $alignr${top_mem pid 2}         ${top_mem cpu 2}         ${top_mem mem 2} 
 ${top_mem name 3} $alignr${top_mem pid 3}         ${top_mem cpu 3}         ${top_mem mem 3} 

${color ffffff}${font :size=9}Free Space ${font}${color 696969}${hr 2}$color

${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Linux:${alignr}${fs_free_perc /}%  ${fs_free /} Remaining$font$color
${fs_bar /}
${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Windows:${alignr}${fs_free_perc /media/Windows}%  ${fs_free /media/Windows} Remaining$font$color
${fs_bar /media/Windows}
${color ffffff}${font :size=8}Storage:${alignr}${fs_free_perc /media/Storage}%  ${fs_free /media/Storage} Remaining$font$color
${fs_bar /media/Storage}


${color ffffff}${font :size=9}Wireless (${addr eth1})  ${color ffffff}${hr 2}$font
Connected to ${color 696969}${wireless_essid eth1}${color}
${color ffffff}Rate:${color} ${color 696969} ${wireless_bitrate eth1}${color}
${color ffffff}Link quality: ${color 696969}${wireless_link_qual_perc eth1}%${color} ${alignr}${wireless_link_bar 8,185 eth1}

${color ffffff}Down: $color ${downspeed eth1} k/s ${alignr}${color ffffff}Up: $color ${upspeed eth1}k/s
${downspeedgraph eth1 25,140 000000 000000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 25,140 000000 000000}
${color ffffff}Total:$color ${totaldown eth1} ${alignr}${color ffffff}Total:$color ${totalup eth1}

${color ffffff}${font :size=9}Ethernet (${addr eth0}) ${color 696969}${hr 2}$font

${color ffffff}Down: $color ${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}${color ffffff}Up: $color ${upspeed eth0}k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 000000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 000000}
${color ffffff}Total:$color ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}${color ffffff}Total:$color ${totalup eth0}

Edit: weird, I didn't realize that my VLC doesn't show up in screenshots? Anyone know why or should I start a thread about it?

[etnlIcarus]

If anyone does make an RSS logo, could they please upload it?