Conky users? Any preferred tricks, or favorite options?


Recommended Posts

I have seen a few posts in the desktop section from members that use conky, and was just wondering what you like to do with conky. (I have seen weather displayed using special fonts to show conditions, but have never tried it)

Anyhow, mine is nothing fancy. I do extract out the GPU temperature, and have an "if" statement to display my removable USB media if I have it inserted and mounted. I don't use any charting, to keep CPU usage down, but do have a few basic bars.

post-36818-1207876540.png

And the .conkyrc is attached.

.conkyrc.txt

Link to comment
Share on other sites

cant edit now :( but i forgot to mention that the wireless signal strength is actually controlled by a script i wrote and a modified webdings font that i put together to have the bars like i wanted. if i could only get that font working in non xft i would be set.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I have seen a few posts in the desktop section from members that use conky, and was just wondering what you like to do with conky. (I have seen weather displayed using special fonts to show conditions, but have never tried it)

Anyhow, mine is nothing fancy. I do extract out the GPU temperature, and have an "if" statement to display my removable USB media if I have it inserted and mounted. I don't use any charting, to keep CPU usage down, but do have a few basic bars.

post-36818-1207876540.png

And the .conkyrc is attached.

Do you know what font "Conky" uses in that screenshot, and if that font is available for windows?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Looking at his .conkyrc file it looks like it is:

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8

I don't do a lot of fiddling with fonts. By "not a lot", I mean "none". :p

That was whatever font was used in the sample I based mine off of, and since it was acceptable to me, I just left it alone. :unsure:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 5 months later...

I've been playing with conky today. I like it fairly simple; just showing me what I need to know -

post-94504-1222026363.jpg

override_utf8_locale yes
 xftfont Nimbus Sans L:size=7
 xftalpha 0.8

 TEXT
 ${offset 240}${color slate grey}UpTime: ${color }$uptime
 ${offset 240}${color slate grey}CPU:${color } $cpu%  ${acpitemp}?C
 ${offset 240}${cpugraph 20,100 000000 ffffff}

 ${offset 240}${color slate grey}MEM: ${color } $memperc%
 ${offset 240}${membar 3,100}
 ${offset 240}${color slate grey}SWAP: ${color }$swapperc%
 ${offset 240}${swapbar 3,100}

 ${offset 240}${color slate grey}ROOT: ${color }${fs_free /}Free
 ${offset 240}${fs_bar 3,100 /}
 ${offset 240}${color slate grey}HOME: ${color }${fs_free /home}Free
 ${offset 240}${fs_bar 3,100 /home}

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

 ${offset 240}${color slate grey}TODAY:
 ${offset 240}${color}${font Weather:size=36}${execi 1800 conkyForecast --location=UKXX1640 --datatype=WF}${font}
 ${offset 280}${voffset -30}${execi 1800 conkyForecast --location=UKXX1640 --datatype=HT}
 ${offset 280}${execi 3600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX1640 --datatype=CC}

 ${offset 240}${color slate grey}FORECAST:
 ${offset 240}${color}${execi 1800 conkyForecast --location=UKXX1640 --startday=1 --endday=2 --datatype=DW --shortweekday --spaces=17} 
 ${offset 240}${execi 1800 conkyForecast --location=UKXX1640 --startday=1 --endday=2 --datatype=HT --refetch --spaces=15}
 ${offset 220}${font Weather:size=30} ${execi 1800 conkyForecast --location=UKXX1640 --startday=1 --endday=2 --datatype=WF --refetch --spaces=2}${font}

The weather stuff is fairly easy to do. I used this guide.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

^^^ I like the weather stuff with icons. I have added in a "execi curl" call in my conkyrc to extract temperature data, but I really think that what you have is much better.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 4 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...

I'll post what I used to use here, really simple for what I need.

background no
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type root
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky
double_buffer yes
update_interval 1

use_xft yes
xftfont cure:size=9
xftalpha 1

border_margin 2
border_width 2
alignment bottom_right
gap_x 2
gap_y 2

TEXT
${color 9ACD32}${mpd_smart} ${color #5555FF}(${battery}) ${color orange}${time %D} ${color orange}${time %I:%M%P} ${color 9ACD32}${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}%

conky.png

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...
This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.