conky 1.3.0 -- lightweight system monitor for X

**reet** · December 12th, 2005

Originally Posted by jtan325

not sure if this'll work (I use FVWM instead of XFCE), but I found this:
http://www.os-cillation.de/cgi-bin/y...num=1110846760

Thanks, that worked great!

**astoltz** · December 13th, 2005

Originally Posted by gbm31

question: conky doesn't start (1.30 & above) if the variable apcitemp is used.
at least on my x24. previous versions do.
am i alone?
(btw: i'm monitoring the cpu-temp by showing /proc/acpi/temp...)

Nope, me too. I'm using the conky from the breezy repo's and it took me a while to figure out that it was acpitemp causing the problem. My temperature shows up in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature - maybe that has something to do with it?

Quick question. What should I put in the config to make it show the contents of a file?

**dartakaum** · December 14th, 2005

Hy.
i'm running conky 1.3.4 and i'm having some problems.

first how to set a bar ou % of volume?
and i saw one user showing % of signal from WLAN, how to do that?

cheers.

**dartakaum** · December 14th, 2005

and by the way, i can't get it to stay near the edge of my screen. :\

**limit223** · December 14th, 2005

I found people interested in my configuration file from Gallery section where I post my last screenshot..therefore I'm going to share it here. It took some time to make use all conky variables correctly in the desire way. Meanwhile I change some ports so I reconfigure conky for them as well.
Conky's thread from Gentoo forum helped me a lot, actually.

I'll skip comment lines, you may find them easyly in any conkyrc sample from the source program.(hope I won't omit the real line by mistake)

Code:

background yes

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

out_to_console no

use_xft yes

xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=9

own_window_transparent yes

xftalpha 0.8
on_bottom yes

mail_spool $MAIL

update_interval 1

own_window yes

double_buffer yes

draw_shades no

draw_outline no

draw_borders no

stippled_borders 0

border_margin 4

border_width 1

default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white


alignment top_right
gap_x 10
gap_y 25


use_spacer no

no_buffers no

uppercase no

TEXT
$sysname $kernel    ${time %A,%d %B}
$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Time:$color ${time %k:%M:%S}
${color lightgrey}Uptime:$color $uptime ${color lightgrey}- Load:$color $loadavg
${color lightgrey}CPU1 Usage:${color} ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1}
${color lightgrey}CPU2 Usage:${color} ${cpu cpu2}% ${cpubar cpu2}
${color #4F6B93}${cpugraph 25 8098ff ffc7ea}
${color lightgrey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% $membar
${color lightgrey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar}
${color lightgrey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Networking:
${offset 10}Down:${color #a9c7ea} ${downspeed eth1} k/s${color lightgrey} ${alignr}Up:${color #a9c7ea} ${upspeed eth1} k/s
${offset 10}${color #4F6B93}${downspeedgraph eth1 25,100 8098ff ffc7ea} ${alignr}${color #4F6B93}${upspeedgraph eth1 25,100 8098ff ffc7ea}
${offset 10}${color lightgrey}Total: ${color #a9c7ea}${totaldown eth1} ${alignr}${color lightgrey}Total: ${color #a9c7ea}${totalup eth1}
${color lightgrey}File systems:$alignr
/      $color${fs_used_perc /}%   ${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar /}
/hdb11 $color${fs_used_perc /media/hdb11}%  ${fs_used /media/hdb11}/${fs_size /media/hdb11} ${fs_bar /media/hdb11}
/hdb9  $color${fs_used_perc /media/hdb9}%   ${fs_used /media/hdb9}/${fs_size /media/hdb9} ${fs_bar /media/hdb9}
/hdb8  $color${fs_used_perc /media/hdb8}%   ${fs_used /media/hdb8}/${fs_size /media/hdb8} ${fs_bar /media/hdb8}
/sda6  $color${fs_used_perc /media/sda6}%  ${fs_used /media/sda6}/${fs_size /media/sda6} ${fs_bar /media/sda6}

  ${color}Name            PID     CPU%   MEM%
${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
  ${color}Mem usage
${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1} ${top_mem pid 1} ${top_mem cpu 1} ${top_mem mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2} ${top_mem pid 2} ${top_mem cpu 2} ${top_mem mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3} ${top_mem pid 3} ${top_mem cpu 3} ${top_mem mem 3}
${font Verdana:style=Bold:pixelsize=12}${color #9AB7FF} ${alignc}$mpd_artist - $mpd_title
${font Verdana:style=Bold:pixelsize=12}${color #9AB7FF} ${alignc}vol: $mpd_vol bitrate: $mpd_bitrate kbp length: $mpd_length $mpd_percent%  
${color #9AB7FF}$mpd_bar
${color #9AB7FF}${alignc}$mpd_status
${color lightgrey}${execi 1 ~/Documents/conky/get_calendar.sh first_part}${color #ddaa00}${execi 1 ~/Documents/conky/get_calendar.sh today }${color }${execi 1 ~/Documents/conky/get_calendar.sh second_part}

${color lightgrey}Port(s)${offset 48}Connections:
${color lightgrey} ALL: ${alignc}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
${color lightgrey} mpd:${alignc}${tcp_portmon 6600 6600 count}
${color lightgrey} 1 - 1024:${alignc}${tcp_portmon 1 1024 count}
${color lightgrey} 1025 - 65535:${alignc}${tcp_portmon 1024 65535 count}
${color lightgrey}Remote Address:${alignr} Local Service/Port:
${color}${tcp_portmon 1 1024 rport 0} 
${color}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 0}${alignr}${tcp_portmon  1 65535 lservice 0}
${color}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 1}${alignr}${tcp_portmon  1 65535 lservice 1}
${color}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 2}${alignr}${tcp_portmon  1 65535 lservice 2}
${color}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 3}${alignr}${tcp_portmon  1 65535 lservice 3}
${color}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 4}${alignr}${tcp_portmon  1 65535 lservice 4}
${color}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rhost 5}${alignr}${tcp_portmon  1 65535 lservice 5}

You may remove /hdb* lines, containing mounted partion devices of my system and change them with yours given by fstab file (or whatever mount point device want to be shown by conky).

The calendar script noticed in my path "~/Documente/conky/get_calendar.sh" wasn't my creation I just copied from Gentoo thread mentioned above you may find there or I'll posted here:

Code:

#! /bin/sh
#str=`echo '\033[01;32m29'`

DATE=`date | awk -F" " '{print $3}'`

case "$1" in
first_part)
cal | grep '[a-zA-Z]';
cal | grep -v '[a-zA-Z]' | grep '[0-9]' | awk -F$DATE ' BEGIN {i=0}
($1 == $0 && i==0) {print $1}
($1 != $0 && i==0){i=i+1;print $1}';
;;
today)
echo $DATE;
;;
second_part)
cal | grep -v '[a-zA-Z]' | grep '[0-9]' | awk -F$DATE ' BEGIN {i=1}
(i==0) {print $0}
($1 != $0 && i==1){i=i-1;print $2}
';
;;
esac

All you should do just name it in the way you want and change the path where you place it, in .conkyrc file.

Note that I've got a smp HT CPU which runs the second CPU:CPU1, CPU2, this setting in conky is available for dual core type as well.
For a normal CPU if don't mistaken the setting is CPU0.. you should check with conky sample.

Sometimes I run another setting file called .conky-next were I place the calender for the next month...it took a little time to figure out exactly the geometry of it to be in the same line with previous conky loaded.

Code:

background yes

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

out_to_console no

use_xft yes

xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=9

own_window_transparent yes
xftalpha 0.8

on_bottom yes
update_interval 1
own_window yes
double_buffer no
draw_shades no
draw_outline no

draw_borders no

stippled_borders 0

border_margin 4

border_width 1

default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white

alignment top_right
gap_x 10
gap_y 582

objects.
use_spacer no

no_buffers no

uppercase no

TEXT
${color lightgrey}${exec  cal $(date +'%b %Y' --date '1 month')}

Another trick that again I found it on mentioned forum was to run my wallpaper background on a virtual root window to achive conky' s transparency in KDE, otherwise my background would be black no matter of conky settings. So I dropped a line in ~/.kde/Autostart/whatevernamed file as:

#! /bin/bash
display -size 1280x1024 -window root /your/path/to/your/wallpaper.jpg

above you may choose your resolution as well. This trick is unnecessary in Gnome desktop.

This is something that you should see on your desktop...
http://ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1436

I think that's all I can share now...enjoy!

**nb-** · December 16th, 2005

Is it possible to get conky to graph another conky variable such as memory usage, without making a script to return it. i.e something along the lines of;

${execgraph $memperc ...}

Without having to make a bash scrip to return it something like top -n 1 and then messing about to get the memory use out of it and then converting it to a percentage;

**limit223** · December 16th, 2005

.well..I tried once exec conky in conky ...but the cpu consume went up like crazy....and I didn't have really the right output...

**towsonu2003** · December 16th, 2005

using conky 1.3.1 since installed breez, and LOVIN it! I don't know what I would do without it!!! Here is my conky screenshot with my .conkyrc for anyone who might be interested:

Code:

# Conky sample configuration
#
# the list of variables has been removed from this file in favour
# of keeping the documentation more maintainable.
# Check http://conky.sf.net for an up-to-date-list.

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 5x7
font 6x10
#font 7x13
#font 8x13
#font 9x15
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*


# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Set conky on the bottom of all other applications
on_bottom yes

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

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

# Print everything to stdout?
# out_to_console no

# MPD host/port
# mpd_host localhost
# mpd_port 6600
# mpd_password tinker_bell

# Print everything to console?
# out_to_console no

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1.0

# 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

# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes

# If own_window_transparent is set to no, you can set the background colour hereown_window_colour grey

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 280 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline yes

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders yes

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 8

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

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

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
alignment bottom_right
#alignment none

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 6
gap_y 30

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase yes

# 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 no


# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer no

#   mldonkey_hostname     Hostname for mldonkey stuff, defaults to localhost
#   mldonkey_port         Mldonkey port, 4001 default
#   mldonkey_login        Mldonkey login, default none
#   mldonkey_password     Mldonkey password, default none

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti

# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter
# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network
# stuff because of an argument

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
$alignc =CONKY=
$alignc $nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine
$alignc Uptime:${color lightgrey} $uptime $color -  Load:${color lightgrey} 1m-$color${loadavg 1}${color lightgrey} 5m-$color${loadavg 2}${color lightgrey} 15m-$color${loadavg 3}$color
$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}HDD I/O:$color $diskio
${color red}${diskiograph 0000ff 00ff00}
${color lightgrey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${color #cc2222} ${cpubar}
${color red}${cpugraph 0000ff 00ff00}
${color lightgrey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar}
${color lightgrey}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar}
${color lightgrey}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Networking:$color PPP0 ${color lightgrey} on $color ${addr ppp0}
${color lightgrey} Down:${color #8844ee} ${downspeedf ppp0} k/s${color lightgrey} ${offset 80}Up:${color #22ccff} ${upspeedf ppp0} k/s
${color #0000ff}${downspeedgraph ppp0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff} ${color #22ccff}${upspeedgraph ppp0 32,150 0000ff ff0000}
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Networking:$color WLAN0 ${color lightgrey} on $color ${addr wlan0}
${color lightgrey}Link Status:$color ${linkstatus wlan0}
 ${color lightgrey}Down:${color #8844ee} ${downspeed wlan0} k/s${color lightgrey} ${offset 80}Up:${color #22ccff} ${upspeed wlan0} k/s
${color #0000ff}${downspeedgraph wlan0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff} ${color #22ccff}${upspeedgraph wlan0 32,150 0000ff ff0000}
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Networking:$color ETH0 ${color lightgrey} on $color ${addr eth0}
 ${color lightgrey}Down:${color #8844ee} ${downspeed eth0} k/s${color lightgrey} ${offset 80}Up:${color #22ccff} ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color #0000ff}${downspeedgraph eth0 32,150 ff0000 0000ff} ${color #22ccff}${upspeedgraph eth0 32,150 0000ff ff0000}
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}File systems:
 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar /}
 /home $color${fs_used /home}/${fs_size /home} ${fs_bar /home}
 /fat32 $color${fs_used /fat32}/${fs_size /fat32} ${fs_bar /fat32}
$color$stippled_hr
CPU ${tail /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature 1 30}
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Name              CPU%   MEM%   PID
${color #ff4500} ${top name 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1} ${top pid 1}
${color #eeee00} ${top name 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2} ${top pid 2}
${color #00ee00} ${top name 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3} ${top pid 3}
${color} ${top name 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4} ${top pid 4}
${color} ${top name 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5} ${top pid 5}
${color} ${top name 6} ${top cpu 6} ${top mem 6} ${top pid 6}
${color} ${top name 7} ${top cpu 7} ${top mem 7} ${top pid 7}
${color} ${top name 8} ${top cpu 8} ${top mem 8} ${top pid 8}
${color} ${top name 9} ${top cpu 9} ${top mem 9} ${top pid 9}