Post your .conkyrc files w/ screenshots

[Yizi]

Type

sudo apt-get install conky

into a terminal. Then

sudo gedit ~/.conkyrc

Paste one of the codes into it and save it. Then run.

conky

You'll then have a running conky. It's up to you to customize it.

Thanks you, that makes sense now

[PurposeOfReason]

You also might need this line in your "module" section of your xorg.conf file. Only if it flickers.

   Load           "dbe"

[Yizi]

I did all those codes at the end i entred "conky" as you said and gave me this error:

Conky: statfs '/media/fat': No such file or directory
Conky: forked to background, pid is 6189
yashar@Linux:~$ 
Conky: statfs '/media/fat': No such file or directory
Conky: attempting to use more CPUs then you have!
obj->data.cpu_index 2 info.cpu_count 1

[czepluch]

Now I've finally got this to work (partly). It shows now. But I'm insecure how to change it's size it's too broad for my resolution. I've tried some different things but none of them seems to work. I would like to get it transparent as well, but when I set it to be it just totally freaks out. ? :S
I would also like to know how I can get it to show the music that I play. Or if it is possible at all with rhythmbox ?

#avoid flicker

double_buffer yes



#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys

own_window  yes

own_window_transparent no

own_window_type normal

own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager 



#borders

draw_borders no

border_margin 1



#shades

draw_shades no



#position

gap_x 6

gap_y 6

alignment top_left



#behaviour

update_interval 1



#colour

default_color  9f907d



#default_shade_color 000000

own_window_colour 3d352a



#font

use_xft yes

xftfont bauhaus:pixelsize=11



#to prevent window from moving

use_spacer no

minimum_size 1262 0



#mpd

mpd_host localhost

mpd_port 6600



TEXT

${alignc}Kernel: ${color D7D3C5}$kernel   |  ${time %d %B} ${color D7D3C5}${time  %H:%M}  |  ${color} Up: ${color D7D3C5}${uptime_short}   |   ${color}Processes: ${color D7D3C5}$processes  ${color}Running: ${color D7D3C5}$running_processes   |  ${color}Cpu: ${color D7D3C5}${cpu}%   ${color}${cpugraph 10,80 AEA08E 9F907D} ${color D7D3C5}    |   ${color }Mem: ${color D7D3C5}$mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${color} ${membar 6,80}${color D7D3C5}    |   ${color }Net: ${color D7D3C5}${font}${downspeed eth0} Kb/s ${color}  ${downspeedgraph eth0 10,80 AEA08E 9F907D}  ${color D7D3C5} ${totaldown eth0} down   |   ${color D7D3C5}${upspeed eth0} Kb/s ${color} ${upspeedgraph eth0 10,80 AEA08E 9F907D}  ${color D7D3C5}${totalup eth0} up 

${alignc} ${color }Root: ${color D7D3C5}${font}${fs_free /}  / ${fs_size /} - ${fs_free_perc /}%   |  ${color} Home: ${color D7D3C5}${fs_free /home}  / ${fs_size /home}  - ${fs_free_perc /home}%   | ${color} Arch-pkg: ${color D7D3C5}${font}${execi 300 perl ~/scripts/conky-updates.pl}  |   ${color}Email: ${color D7D3C5}${execi 300 python ~/scripts/gmail.py} ${color D7D3C5}   | ${color} Weather: ${color D7D3C5} ${execi 1800 weatherget -f ~/scripts/.conkyweatherrc --station-id=$LOCATION //xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=copenhagen }   |  ${color} Mpd:  ${color D7D3C5}${font}${mpd_smart}

[PurposeOfReason]

I did all those codes at the end i entred "conky" as you said and gave me this error:

Conky: statfs '/media/fat': No such file or directory
Conky: forked to background, pid is 6189
yashar@Linux:~$ 
Conky: statfs '/media/fat': No such file or directory
Conky: attempting to use more CPUs then you have!
obj->data.cpu_index 2 info.cpu_count 1

That's because of the conky you used. In that code, the person who made it checked their harddrive size, It's location was /media/fat. You don't have that so that part is useless to you. Then you tried on with a dual core CPU, you don't have that. That is why you have to customize it.

[n3tfury]

**nevermind, after a reboot it's working just dandy**

ok, i really didn't want to have to post after googling but again it's another person using compiz-fusion and flickering. along with the code below, i've added "dbe" in xorg

this is code copied/pasted from a few places so, thanks to those folks for getting this far

# UBUNTU-CONKY
# A comprehensive conky script, configured for use on
# Ubuntu / Debian Gnome, without the need for any external scripts.
#
# Based on conky-jc and the default .conkyrc.
# INCLUDES:
# - tail of /var/log/messages 
# - netstat connections to your computer
#
# -- Pengo (conky@pengo.us)
#

# 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

#fonts
# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

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

# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft no

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0

# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
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?
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 yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
#own_window_colour brown

# 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 30

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
$color
${color orange}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color
$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine

${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 / DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM:   $memperc%   ${membar 6}$color
Swap:  $swapperc%   ${swapbar 6}$color

Root:  ${fs_free_perc /}%   ${fs_bar 6 /}$color 
hdc1:  ${fs_free_perc /media/hdc1}%   ${fs_bar 6 /media/hdc1}$color
hdd1:  ${fs_free_perc /media/hdd1}%   ${fs_bar 6 /media/hdd1}

${color orange}NETWORK (${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}LOGGING ${hr 2}$color
${execi 30 tail -n3 /var/log/messages | fold -w50}

[el mariachi]

How do i enable Direct rendering? I only added 'dri' and 'dbe' to the module section of xorg.conf and

Section    "Extensions"
    Option    "Composite"    "Enable"
EndSection

and

Option       "AllowGLXWithComposite"    "true"

These are for xcompmgr, although I think there's another one I can add to the device section to make things faster. (and there's drm, do I need it? -GeForce 6600GT PCIE)

<edit>
adding 'aiglx' to modules, creating this section

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

and adding these lines to the section 'Device'

Option       "AllowGLXWithComposite"    "true"
    Option         "AccelMethod"    "EXA"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "true"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

Gave an awesome boost to my desktop performance and conky smoothness, although I don't know what some options do lol I haven't had any problems, on the contrary
</edit>

[n3tfury]

Okay. Change your conkyrc XMMS part to show as follows:

Xmms: ${execi 1 cat /tmp/xmms-info | grep Status: | cut -d ":" -f2}
Artist: ${execi 1 xmmsctrl title | cut -d "-" -f1}
Song : ${execi 1 xmmsctrl title | cut -d "-" -f2}
Time : ${execi 1 xmmsctrl print %m%n} ( ${execi 25 xmmsctrl print %M%n})
Number  : ${execi 1 xmmsctrl getpos} / ${execi 25 cat /tmp/xmms-info | grep Tunes | cut -d ":" -f2}

Then in your tmp folder make a script called 'xmms-info' which will look like the one below. Make it executable however you like to.

#!/bin/bash

#This script is free to modify and distribute.
#Use at your own risk.

#Requirement: xmms-infopipe

#User Settings here
maxcol=35
file=/tmp/xmms-info

#Grab needed information
pos=`cat $file | grep uSecPosition: | cut -d : -f2`
len=`cat $file | grep uSecTime: | cut -d : -f2`

#Count the length in characters of the title
size=`echo $title | wc -c`
#Calculate current position within that length
poscol=$(echo "$pos*$maxcol/$len" | bc)

#Printing
for (( i=0; i<$maxcol; i++ ))
do
  if [ $i -eq $poscol ]; then
    echo -n 'O'
  else
    echo -n '='
  fi
done

Now for the final bit. Open up synaptic and get the file 'xmmsctrl'. Now you should be good.

trying to add this to my own conky script but am a little confused after the person you were helping said it worked without the script? i've installed the pipe plugin and have pasted the top code into my .rc file. do i still need to create the second script?

[PurposeOfReason]

trying to add this to my own conky script but am a little confused after the person you were helping said it worked without the script? i've installed the pipe plugin and have pasted the top code into my .rc file. do i still need to create the second script?

Just got back from my first day of school, it's overrated.

Once you have infopipe and xmmsctrl, it should work. Of course you need to open up XMMS, go to it's plugins and enable the infopipe.

[markp1989]

heres how mine looks

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g2...reenshot-1.png

# UBUNTU-CONKY
# A comprehensive conky script, configured for use on
# Ubuntu / Debian Gnome, without the need for any external scripts.
#
# Based on conky-jc and the default .conkyrc.
# INCLUDES:
# - tail of /var/log/messages
# - netstat connections to your computer
#
# -- Pengo (conky@pengo.us)
#

# 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 400 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Text stuff
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?
stippled_borders 8

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white

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 0
gap_y 5

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

override_utf8_locale no
xftfont Terminus:size=8
xftalpha 0.8

TEXT
${offset 240}${color slate grey}${time %a, } ${color }${time %e %B %G}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}${time %Z, }${color }${time %H:%M:%S}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}UpTime: ${color }$uptime
${offset 240}${color slate grey}Kern:${color }$kernel
${offset 240}${color slate grey}CPU:${color } $cpu% ${acpitemp}C
${offset 240}${cpugraph 20,130 000000 ffffff}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}Load: ${color }$loadavg
${offset 240}${color slate grey}Processes: ${color }$processes
${offset 240}${color slate grey}Running: ${color }$running_processes

${offset 240}${color slate grey}Highest CPU:
${offset 240}${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1}${top_mem cpu 1}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top name 2}${top cpu 2}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top name 3}${top cpu 3}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top name 4}${top cpu 4}

${offset 240}${color slate grey}Highest MEM:
${offset 240}${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1}${top_mem mem 1}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2}${top_mem mem 2}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3}${top_mem mem 3}
${offset 240}${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 4}${top_mem mem 4}

${offset 240}${color slate grey}MEM: ${color } $memperc% $mem/$memmax
${offset 240}${membar 3,100}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}SWAP: ${color }$swapperc% $swap/$swapmax
${offset 240}${swapbar 3,100}

${offset 240}${color slate grey}ROOT: ${color }${fs_free /}/${fs_size /}
${offset 240}${fs_bar 3,100 /}
${offset 240}${color slate grey}NET:
${offset 240}${color}Up: ${color }${upspeed eth0} k/s
${offset 240}${upspeedgraph eth0 20,130 000000 ffffff}
${offset 240}${color}Down: ${color }${downspeed eth0}k/s${color}
${offset 240}${downspeedgraph eth0 20,130 000000 ffffff}

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Dejavu Sans:size=8
xftalpha 0.5
update_interval 1
total_run_times 0
override_utf8_locale no
double_buffer yes

own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent 1
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
uppercase no
use_spacer yes

alignment bottom_right
gap_x 20
gap_y 25
minimum_size 125 20
maximum_width 125
default_color FFFFFF

TEXT
${font Sans:size=7}${time %a - %e %B %G}
${font Impact:size=18}${time %I:%M:%S %p}

thankyou Stan_1936 for the config file for the time, and for the image file, that i used 2 sort my background out

i would like to be able to add now playing information from rhythm box, but I'm not sure how to do this, if any1 knows please tell me