Conky users? Any preferred tricks, or favorite options?

[markwolfe Veteran]

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.

And the .conkyrc is attached.

.conkyrc.txt

[rson451]

i don't do anything special with it, only basic status and levels. the right is an update notify script from the arch community.

^ yes it's there ^

http://rsontech.net/~randy/dotfiles/laptop/.conkyrc

[rson451]

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.

[PKHelloNasty]

Nothing special in mine, I like to keep it simple. :)

[APH-Alex]

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.

And the .conkyrc is attached.

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

[PKHelloNasty]

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

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8

[LightIdea]

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is the font it is using.

I don't think it's available for windows though.

[APH-Alex]

Got it!

[PKHelloNasty]

lol, how cheesy. :)

[markwolfe Veteran]

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:

[darkz]

cool, using it on my linuxbox now

[Fish]

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

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.

[markwolfe Veteran]

^^^ 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.

[Rob2687]

I am using this config right now. Modified some minor things for my config. I just started using it today but it's so easy to customize!

http://sen7.deviantart.com/art/Conky-Mira-100078939

[Zerosleep]

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}%

[i_was_here]

My conky is rather plain but it does what I need:

http://anonymous-bot.deviantart.com/art/co...setup-105827014