I have been working with conky for 2 months and was wondering if there were others on mdl that use it.Thought we could get a thread going about configs we use and share info on it.. For those that don't know what Conky is its a small program that can display system infomation on your screen such as temps of harddrive,cpu,gpu,harddrive space used,or even 1 folders space available, available memory. you have to write the configuration file for this program so you can customize it to have a little or a lot on your screen. what's your thoughts on this
Ok lets get this started here is a simple config that I use on my laptop it has harddrive,cpu temps and how long laptop has been on.. It doesn't dissappear when the desktop is clicked like a lot of people complain about,it is set for a 1280x800 resolution so if you use that size you shouldn't have to format it to fit your screen... # Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo # # Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license # # All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL # # Please see COPYING for details # # Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen # Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS) # All rights reserved. # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. # alignment top_right background no border_width 1 cpu_avg_samples 2 default_color white default_outline_color white default_shade_color white draw_borders no draw_graph_borders yes draw_outline no draw_shades no use_xft yes xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12 gap_x 5 gap_y 20 minimum_size 1280 5 maximum_width 1280 net_avg_samples 2 no_buffers yes double_buffer yes out_to_console no out_to_stderr no extra_newline no own_window yes own_window_class Conky own_window_type override own_window_transparent yes stippled_borders 0 update_interval 1.0 uppercase no use_spacer none show_graph_scale no show_graph_range no total_run_times 0 temperature_unit fahrenheit hddtemp_host 127.0.0.1 hddtemp_port 7634 TEXT ${offset 90}$uptime${goto 215}${image ~/icons/Thermometer-Snowflake-icon.png -p 190,15 -s 18x18}Crit temp ${hwmon 0 temp 1}ᵒf${goto 400}HDD temp ${hddtemp /dev/sda}ᵒf${image ~/icons/HardDrive-icon.png -p 360,10 -s 32x32}${goto 575}CPU0 ${hwmon 1 temp 1}ᵒf${image ~/icons/Devices-cpu-icon.png -p 535,10 -s 32x32}${goto 680}CPU1 ${hwmon 1 temp 3}ᵒf${image ~/icons/Portable-Computer-icon.png -p 780,5 -s 38x38}${image ~/icons/ubuntu-logo.png -p 1020,10 -s 32x32}${goto 1060}${time %A %B %d %Y}
If you want conky to run a script and get the output you can use the execi command. Here's how you use it: Code: {execi interval_in_seconds /path/to/your/script} Pretty cool. If you know python/perl/php (or any other scripting language) you can write little scripts to fetch stock quotes, get random quotes, trending news, etc.
As for what i think about the image in your first post the 3D Desktop.. i personally don't like it doesnt make your system more practical just extra eye candy. Its located at the top right of my screen... didn't want to change my wallpaper just to post here. It also shows the WIFI's ESSID and IP Address; I blacked them out. It is transparent so you can use this with a colored wallpaper. Code: background yes use_xft yes xftfont Sans:size=8 xftalpha 1 update_interval 1.0 total_run_times 0 own_window yes own_window_transparent yes own_window_type desktop own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager double_buffer yes minimum_size 200 200 maximum_width 200 draw_shades yes draw_outline no draw_borders no draw_graph_borders yes default_color white default_shade_color black default_outline_color white alignment top_right gap_x 12 gap_y 12 no_buffers yes uppercase no cpu_avg_samples 2 override_utf8_locale no TEXT ${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}SYSTEM ${hr 2} ${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}$sysname $kernel $alignr $machine Host:$alignr$nodename Uptime:$alignr$uptime File System: $alignr${fs_type} ${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}PROCESSORS ${hr 2} ${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${cpugraph cpu1} CPU1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1} ${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}MEMORY ${hr 2} ${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}RAM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc% $membar ${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}DISKS ${hr 2} ${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}/ $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /}% ${fs_bar /} SWAP $alignc ${swap} / ${swapmax} $alignr ${swapperc}% ${swapbar} ${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}TOP PROCESSES ${hr 2} ${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${top_mem name 1}${alignr}${top mem 1} % ${top_mem name 2}${alignr}${top mem 2} % $font${top_mem name 3}${alignr}${top mem 3} % $font${top_mem name 4}${alignr}${top mem 4} % $font${top_mem name 5}${alignr}${top mem 5} % ${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}NETWORK ${hr 2} ${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}IP address: $alignr ${addr wlan0} ESSID: $alignr ${wireless_essid wlan0} Connection quality: $alignr ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}% ${downspeedgraph wlan0} DLS:${downspeed wlan0} kb/s $alignr total: ${totaldown wlan0} ${upspeedgraph wlan0} ULS:${upspeed wlan0} kb/s $alignr total: ${totalup wlan0}
Actully I should have moved the image.I was asking about getting this thread started as a way to share conky.conf files.But yea that is a bling shot of my desktop computer.