Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

**searchOne** · October 20th, 2009

Originally Posted by Cammy

Ok, that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Hi Cammy,
thank you for the flowers, Cammy!

If you want I can feel free to post the actual configure this again! But not until tomorrow, I'm still on the job.

**Bruce M.** · October 20th, 2009

We have you hooked now!!!!
{evil background chuckling}

Originally Posted by djyoung4

sorry i meant horizontally. i changed my code to this

Welcome to the nightmare of "setting it up"!

You will need to use a lot of ${voffset}'s, ${goto}'s and/or ${offset}'s to get things working right. Check this out: ${goto}, ${offset} & ${voffset} and as I always say:

When spacing is the critical factor - mono fonts are your best friend!

Check out the Gallery at Conky Hardcore!, there are some wonderful samples of one liners going across the screen. My latest is very busy and goes across the top - it took a few days to get that one right.

I did that in sections down the left. then I moved a section closer to the middle with a ${goto xx} at the start of each line in the section. Once it was just below where I wanted it I moved it up with a ${voffset -xx} at the beginning of the fist line of the section, the rest come up with it.

See the first attached image, notice how Section 3 has moved up under Section 1 with just one ${voffset -65} command on the first Section 2 line.

Finishing off the code - moving Section 2 closer to Section 1 and Section 3 over and up we get the second image.

Code:

TEXT
  Line 1 Section 1 - commands and text here
  Line 2 Section 1 - commands and text here
  Line 3 Section 1 - commands and text here
  Line 4 Section 1 - commands and text here
  Line 5 Section 1 - commands and text here
${voffset -65}${goto 265}  Line 1 Section 2 - commands and text here
${goto 265}  Line 2 Section 2 - commands and text here
${goto 265}  Line 3 Section 2 - commands and text here
${goto 265}  Line 4 Section 2 - commands and text here
${goto 265}  Line 5 Section 2 - commands and text here
${voffset -65}${goto 530}  Line 1 Section 3 - commands and text here
${goto 530}  Line 2 Section 3 - commands and text here
${goto 530}  Line 3 Section 3 - commands and text here
${goto 530}  Line 4 Section 3 - commands and text here
${goto 530}  Line 5 Section 3 - commands and text here

Now, keep in mine different fonts use different spacing vertical and horizontal - Check out: Spacing and re-read: ${goto}, ${offset} & ${voffset}

Hope this helps a little.

Have a nice day.
Bruce

**djyoung4** · October 20th, 2009

Originally Posted by Bruce M.

We have you hooked now!!!!
{evil background chuckling}

Welcome to the nightmare of "setting it up"!

sounds like fun. Hopefully ill get it done before 9.10 comes out. ill post any problems i have

**yknivag** · October 21st, 2009

Originally Posted by n1ck75

i've margined my desktop so that nothing covers it, therefore, yes i can see it all the time

That sounds very clever! How do you set margins on the desktop?

**graaant** · October 21st, 2009

Hey guys!
I'm having a couple of problems with my conky setup. Not necessarily "problems" but I want to get them sorted

First things first, my conky.rc file is:

Code:

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

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 5

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

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override
#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
maximum_width 800

# 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_inner_margin 5

# border width
border_width 1

# 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 35
gap_y 50

# 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 none

TEXT
SYSTEM ${hr 2}
${voffset 2}${font OpenLogos:size=16}u${font}   Kernel:  ${alignr}${kernel}
${font StyleBats:size=16}q${font}   Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}
${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}   Core 1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu1 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}   Core 2: ${cpu cpu2}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu2 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}g${font}   RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}j${font}   SWAP: $swapperc% ${alignr}${swapbar 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}o${font}   Updates Available: ${alignr} ${execi 900 aptitude search "~U" | wc -l | tail}

HD ${hr 2}
${voffset 4}${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}6${font}   Temperature: ${alignr}${exec nc localhost 7634 | perl -ne 'print $1 if /\/sda\|.*?\|(\d+)\|C/;'}°C
${voffset 6}${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}7${font}   System: ${alignr}${fs_free /}/${fs_size /} 

NETWORK ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed wlan0}/ps
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font}   Down: ${downspeed wlan0}/ps
${voffset 4}${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}a${font}   Local IP: ${alignr}${addr wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font}   Public IP: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${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}a${font}   Local Ip: ${alignr}${addr eth0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font}   Public Ip: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${endif}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font}   Down: ${downspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth1 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font}   Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font}   Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font}   Local IP: ${alignr}${addr eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font}   Public IP: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${endif}${else}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}4${font}   Network Unavailable
${endif}

WEATHER ${hr 2}
${voffset 8}${font Arial Black:size=14}${alignc}${execi 300 ~/.scripts/weather.sh "OCN|AU|NSW|GOSFORD"}

Now, when starting conky in a terminal, I get told there are one or more endifs missing. But I can't spot it. Knowing my luck as soon as I hit post it'll make itself obvious. Can anyone else's keen eyes spot it?

Also, my Wireless Signal strength shows strangely. I'm at 100 percent signal strength at the moment - indicated by the strength bar. However it shows as 70%.
Opening a term and using iwconfig shows:

Code:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"CCCUpstairs"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:18:4D:03:E7:F4   
          Bit Rate=0 kb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-21 dBm  Noise level=-85 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

So what's happening is that my link quality is 70/70.. and is showing as 70% which is obviously not right.
Why would it be only out of 70? And how can I make conky show as a percentage of this? Obviously 70/70 is 100%

Any help would be appreciated!

**graaant** · October 21st, 2009

Argh! And another little problem.
Previously had added maximum_width to stop conky resizing and "flickering" when network speed was changing - as mentioned on conky hardcore.

I've now added a Processes section to my rc. And every time chromium-browse pops up in the top, the width changes and conky flickers. Pretty annoying.

I've tinkered a little but can't seem to stop it.
My conky.rc is now now..

Code:

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont Aller:size=9
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 2

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

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type override
#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_width 1000
maximum_width 1000

# 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_inner_margin 5

# border width
border_width 1

# 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 35
gap_y 50

# 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 none

TEXT
SYSTEM ${hr 2}
${voffset 2}${font OpenLogos:size=16}u${font}   Kernel:  ${alignr}${kernel}
${font StyleBats:size=16}q${font}   Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}
${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}   Core 1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu1 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}A${font}   Core 2: ${cpu cpu2}% ${alignr}${cpubar cpu2 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}g${font}   RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}j${font}   SWAP: $swapperc% ${alignr}${swapbar 8,60}
${font StyleBats:size=16}o${font}   Updates Available: ${alignr} ${execi 900 aptitude search "~U" | wc -l | tail}

PROCESSES ${hr 2}
$font$processes processes ($running_processes running)
NAME $alignr CPU     MEM
${top name 1} $alignr ${top cpu 1}   ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} $alignr ${top cpu 2}   ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} $alignr ${top cpu 3}   ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} $alignr ${top cpu 4}   ${top mem 4}
${top name 5} $alignr ${top cpu 5}   ${top mem 5}

HD ${hr 2}
${voffset 4}${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}6${font}   Temperature: ${alignr}${exec nc localhost 7634 | perl -ne 'print $1 if /\/sda\|.*?\|(\d+)\|C/;'}°C
${voffset 6}${font Pie charts for maps:size=14}7${font}   System: ${alignr}${fs_free /}/${fs_size /} 

NETWORK ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed wlan0}/ps
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font}   Down: ${downspeed wlan0}/ps
${voffset 4}${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}a${font}   Local IP: ${alignr}${addr wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font}   Public IP: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${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}a${font}   Local Ip: ${alignr}${addr eth0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font}   Public Ip: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${endif}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font}   Down: ${downspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth1 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font}   Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font}   Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font}   Local IP: ${alignr}${addr eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font}   Public IP: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${endif}${else}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}4${font}   Network Unavailable
${endif}
WEATHER ${hr 2}
${voffset 8}${font Arial Black:size=14}${alignc}${execi 300 ~/.scripts/weather.sh "OCN|AU|NSW|GOSFORD"}

Any ideas?

**Crinos512** · October 21st, 2009

you might find your answer here: When “blinking” isn’t!

**Crinos512** · October 21st, 2009

Yes, I realize I could have just quoted it to you but then you wouldn't have seen just how useful ConkyHardcore! truely is

**Crinos512** · October 21st, 2009

BTW: Here is the solution to your nested-ifs-problem in color matched pairings.

(Each 'if' must have an 'endif', and can have at most one 'else'... your original code was essentially stacking multiple 'else's on the first 'if'.)

Code:

NETWORK ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed wlan0}/ps
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font}   Down: ${downspeed wlan0}/ps
${voffset 4}${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}a${font}   Local IP: ${alignr}${addr wlan0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font}   Public IP: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${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}a${font}   Local Ip: ${alignr}${addr eth0}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font}   Public Ip: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
${voffset -6}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}O${font}   Up: ${upspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}U${font}   Down: ${downspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth1 8,60 F57900 FCAF3E}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}N${font}   Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}T${font}   Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}a${font}   Local IP: ${alignr}${addr eth1}
${voffset 4}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}b${font}   Public IP: ${alignr}${execi 1 ~/.scripts/ip.sh}
${else}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}4${font}   Network Unavailable
${endif}${endif}${endif}

happy conkying!

**graaant** · October 21st, 2009

Originally Posted by Crinos512

Yes, I realize I could have just quoted it to you but then you wouldn't have seen just how useful ConkyHardcore! truely is

Thanks, but I've already looked at Conky hardcore. it helped me previously when I was getting this with my network activity parts. But doesn't seem to help with the processes part? :S

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