Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

**emissman** · May 9th, 2009

Originally Posted by Bruce M.

1. The graph problem answer is here: BARS with Text and ${goto}, ${offset} & ${voffset}.

2. add the --imperial option as seen in

Code:

conkyForecast -help

Have a nice day.
Bruce

Thanks! I will give these a shot.

**tommy123** · May 10th, 2009

For those of you wondering what the below portion of this post is about, here are the screenies in my original post:

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/6807/ui1.png
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3580/ui2.png
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6707/ui4.png
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1483/ui5.png

Originally Posted by phredduk

tommy123 - lovin' your screenshots, any chance of the .conkyrc configs (or links to them..)

cheers

Originally Posted by amitabhishek

Loved this...
Mind sharing your secrets

Thanks guys,

I set this up using 4 RCs.

.conkyrc - the very right side of the screen with the Date, temps, CPU, etc.
.conkyrc2 - the top right corner of the screen that encapsulates the terminal window
.conkyrc3 - Now Playing, Documents, IM, and the bottom _ _ _ _ _
.conkyrc4 - The vertical series of vertical "|" .

I suppose i could have merged rc3 and rc4 into one file, but the dashes align better if i have them in separate files.

The terminal window looks deceiving since it looks like a part of the .conkyrc2 file at first glance. But in fact it is a screenlet that is set to white text with transparency turned on

. Here is the link the the screenlet:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=74844

if you don't have the screenlet manager installed already(required for the terminal) then here is the link to that:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=82586

Lastly, here are the links the to .conkyrc(x) files:

.conkyrc
http://files.filefront.com/conkyrc/;.../fileinfo.html

.conkyrc2
http://files.filefront.com/conkyrc2/.../fileinfo.html

.conkyrc3
http://files.filefront.com/conkyrc3/.../fileinfo.html

.conkyrc4
http://files.filefront.com/conkyrc4/.../fileinfo.html

Note: the order at which i load the RC files to properly overlay eachother is: ...rc, ...rc2, ...rc4, ...rc3

**racerraul** · May 10th, 2009

Very slick tommy123

**TeoBigusGeekus** · May 10th, 2009

Mine:

Code:

# UBUNTU-CONKY

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
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

# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft yes

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0

# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5

maximum_width 300

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Text stuff
draw_outline yes # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
#font FreeSans -8
xftfont candara:pixelsize=12
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 9

# border width
border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color grey

own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes

# 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
gap_x 10
gap_y 40

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color orange}CPU ${hr 2}$color
${freq}MHz   Load: ${loadavg}   Temp: ${acpitemp}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 000000 ffffff}
NAME             PID       CPU%      MEM%
${top name 1} ${top pid 1}   ${top cpu 1}    ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2}   ${top cpu 2}    ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3}   ${top cpu 3}    ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4}   ${top cpu 4}    ${top mem 4}

${color orange}MEMORY${hr 2}$color
RAM:   $memperc%   ${membar 6}$color
Swap:  $swapperc%   ${swapbar 6}$color

${color orange}ROOT (/)${hr 2}$color
Root size:  ${fs_size /}$color
Root used:  ${fs_used /}$color
Root free:  ${fs_free /}$color ${fs_free_perc /}%   ${fs_bar 6 /}$color
 
${color orange}HOME (/home)${hr 2}$color
Home size:  ${fs_size /home}$color
Home used:  ${fs_used /home}$color
Home free: ${fs_free /home}$color ${fs_free_perc /home}%   ${fs_bar 6 /home}$color 

${color orange}435.1 GB (/media/disk)${hr 2}$color
435.1 GB size:  ${fs_size /media/disk}$color
435.1 GB used:  ${fs_used /media/disk}$color
435.1 GB free:  ${fs_free /media/disk}$color ${fs_free_perc /media/disk}%   ${fs_bar 6 /media/disk}$color

${color orange}300.1 GB (/media/disk-1)${hr 2}$color
300.1 GB size:  ${fs_size /media/disk-1}$color
300.1 GB used:  ${fs_used /media/disk-1}$color
300.1 GB free:  ${fs_free /media/disk-1}$color ${fs_free_perc /media/disk-1}%   ${fs_bar 6 /media/disk-1}$color

${color orange}NETWORK (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
Down: $color${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 
25,140 000000 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup eth0}
Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768 
61000 count}${alignr}Total: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${color orange}KASTORIA WEATHER ${hr 2}$color
${rss http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|GR|GR022|KASTORIA 60 item_title 0}
${rss http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|GR|GR022|KASTORIA 60 item_title 1}
${rss http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|GR|GR022|KASTORIA 60 item_desc 1}
${rss http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|GR|GR022|KASTORIA 60 item_title 2}
${rss http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|GR|GR022|KASTORIA 60 item_desc 2}

${color orange}MAIL ${hr 2}$color
${execi 120 fetchmail | fold -w50}

${color orange}FORTUNE ${hr 2}$color
${execi 120 fortune -s | fold -w50}

My only problem is with weather. I cannot use conkyforecast as it uses weather.com which doesn't have a forecast for my hometown (Kastoria, Greece).
I use the accuweather rss service, which is ok, but as you can see, in the forecast section, the xml code for loading an image is still visible.
Would there be a way to isolate the forecast from the code?
My current solution is to force conky to have a maximum width of 300 pixels, which does not satisfy me...

**anti_microsoft** · May 10th, 2009

I have an older desktop I set up here. I am using Fluxbox and I am very happy with how my Conky has turned out.

I am always listening to online radio (1 station through shoutcast) that I use mpg123 to listen with. I would like to know if anyone would have an idea how I could get mpg123 to load with Conky and dump the song titles and artist to conky? Here is what the mpg123 output looks like:

Code:

ICY-META: StreamTitle='Scandal - The Warrior';StreamUrl='';

ICY-META: StreamTitle='Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out';StreamUrl='';

ICY-META: StreamTitle='Belinda Carlisle - Circle In The Sand';StreamUrl='';

Would be pretty cool to figure out for a light weight coolness

. I tried putting the execi into the main Conky with to at least launch it and it cancels out the window. I know I will more then likely have to make its own window to accomplish this.

Anyone have idea how to do this?

**dk75** · May 10th, 2009

You need two scripts - one to run mpg123 with "pre_exec" command which is started only once, a script that append mpg123 output to the file.
Second script will read that file and parse it last line to conky window.

**emissman** · May 10th, 2009

OK, I got my earlier problems worked out (move text inside graph and changing to imperial units for temp. in Conky weather).

Having one more problem now... I have dual monitors, 3360x1050 resolution. When I use top_right for alignment, the Conky config is showing at about the top middle of my right monitor. How would I get Conky to realize I have dual screens and go to the farthest point right that it can get?

**anti_microsoft** · May 10th, 2009

Originally Posted by dk75

You need two scripts - one to run mpg123 with "pre_exec" command which is started only once, a script that append mpg123 output to the file.
Second script will read that file and parse it last line to conky window.

Thanks for the help.

I wrote the script to launch the player, I have no idea how to write a script to pull text (scripting newb here). I have read about sed, grep...
Can someone please help me with this?

**dk75** · May 10th, 2009

mpg123 conky scripts

radio.awk

Code:

#!/usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
	FS="'"
	RS=""
	OFS="   "
}
END {print $2}

conky executing:

Code:

${if_running mpg123}${font :size=8}$alignc${scroll 32 2 ${execi 1 radio.awk /tmp/radio && tail -n 1 /tmp/radio > /tmp/radio.tmp && cat /tmp/radio.tmp > /tmp/radio}}$font${endif}

possible mpg123 invocation:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
if [ -f /tmp/radio ]; then rm -f /tmp/radio; fi
mpg123 -@ http://www.radiopulsar.pl/pulsar.m3u -b 256 --resync --loop -1 2> /tmp/radio &
disown %1
exit 0

but it can't be run from Conky "pre_exec" ( Conky will be invisible as long as "mpg123" will run )