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    My "Most Excellent" Conky Theme

    Note to moderator: This post probably applies to more than just 13.10. If you do move it, please let me know where so I don't make the same mistake. Thanks.

    Okay, I suppose I'm bragging a little. Since SuperKaramba seems to have "issues" with Saucy, I decided to give Conky a try. After 2 weeks of scripting, researching, updating, and more scripting, I finally have something I'm proud of. So, for anyone having trouble with Conky, feel free to edit my conky.rc for your own use.

    There should be 2 attachments to this post: a graphic of my Conky panel, and the conky.rc which I renamed as conky-1.txt for uploading.
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    "If you're in a room with another person who sees the world exactly as you do, one of you is redundant." Dr. Steven Covey, The 7-Habits of Highly Effective People
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    #2
    VERY NICE!
    I especially like the weather notification. Great tip!
    "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
    – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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      #3
      Thank you sir. I think it took me way too many lines to format the WX the way I want it. Eventually, I'll get up to speed with grep, sed, and awk.
      "If you're in a room with another person who sees the world exactly as you do, one of you is redundant." Dr. Steven Covey, The 7-Habits of Highly Effective People
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        #4
        I modified yours a bit to suit my installation and replaced my old .conkyrc with it.
        Thanks!
        "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
        – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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          #5
          Below is my final .conkyrc script. The only differences are highlighted in bold. In the IP address portion I had to use "!" instead of the "/" for sed.
          Code:
          # My Conky 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.
#
#fonts

use_xft yes
xftfont comicsansms:size=10
xftalpha 0.8
uppercase no

update_interval 5.0
total_run_times 0
double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes

own_window yes
own_window_type normal 
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
#own_window_colour black
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

alignment bottom_right
minimum_size 300 800
maximum_width 350
gap_x 10
gap_y 60

#border info
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
stippled_borders 8
border_margin 4
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color LightBlue
default_shade_color White
default_outline_color White
color1 White
color2 LightGray

# Variables
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 1
override_utf8_locale yes

format_human_readable
short_units

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer right

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
############################################################################
TEXT

########## SYSTEM ##############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color$font
${font}${color2}Name:  ${color}$nodename 
${color2}Kernel: ${color}$sysname $kernel on $machine

[B]${color2}OS: ${color}KUBUNTU ${alignr}${color}${execi 6000 cat /etc/os-release|grep 'PRETTY_NAME'|awk '{print $2" "$3}'}
${color2}VERSION:${alignr}${color}${execi 6000 cat /etc/os-release|grep 'VERSION='|awk '{print $1}'|sed 's/VERSION="//'|sed 's/,//'}[/B]
${color2}GUI:${alignr}${color}${execi 6000 konsole -version|grep 'KDE' |awk '{print $1" "$4}'}
${color2}Total Uptime:${alignr} ${color}${uptime_short}

########## CPU ###############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}CPU ${hr 2}$color$font
${font}${execi 6000 cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep -m 1 'model name'|awk '{print $4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8}'}
${color2}Cores: ${color}${execi 6000 cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep -m 1 'cpu cores'|awk '{print $4}'}   
${color2}Temp: ${color}${exec sensors|grep 'Core 0'|awk '{print $3}'} 
${color2}Load: ${color} $cpu% ${cpubar 12}

######### GPU ###############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}GPU ${hr 2}$color$font
${color2}Model: ${color}Intel HD 4000
${color2}Temp: ${color}${exec sensors|grep -m 1 'temp1:'|awk '{print $2}'}
 

######### MEMORY ###############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}MEMORY ${hr 2}$color$font
${color2}RAM:  ${color}$memperc%    ${alignr}$mem / $memmax
#${color2}Swap:  ${color}$swapperc%     ${alignr}$swap / $swapmax

######### NETWORK ###############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}NETWORK ${hr 2}$color$font
[B]${color2}IP on wlan0: ${color}${alignr}${execi 3600 curl -s http://192.168.1.1|grep 'wan_ipaddr'|awk '{print $1,$2}'|sed 's/<span id="wan_ipaddr">//'|sed 's!</span>&nbsp;!!'}[/B]

${color2}Down ${color}$alignr ${downspeedf wlan0} kb/s
${color2}Up   ${color}$alignr ${upspeedf wlan0} kb/s

    
######### WX ####################
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}LOCAL WX${hr 1}$color$font
[B]${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |grep 'LIN'|awk '{print $1,$2,$3,$7}'}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 2p|awk '{print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7}'}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 3p|awk '{print $1,$2,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9}'}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 5p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 6p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 7p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 8p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 9p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 10p|awk '{print $1,$2,$3,$4}'}[/B]
#
          "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
          – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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            #6
            Hello

            I like the look of this! Please excuse my ignorance on this, I have installed conky, but where does conky.rc go so that this maybe used and how to kick it off?

            Thank you in advance

            Bukunut
            There are three kinds of people in the world; those who can count and those who can't.
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              #7
              It is ".conkyrc" (note the period, indicating a "hidden" file) and it goes in your home directory. ~/
              Once you place the .conkyrc file in your home directory then in a Konsole run the command conky.
              "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
              – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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                #8
                GreyGeek

                Absolute thanks for your quick reply!! Well, I love trying new things, so time to read and get this script changed to stop errors I guess...

                "Conky: /home/stephen/.conkyrc: 38: no such configuration: 'border_margin'
                Conky: desktop window (1c00133) is subwindow of root window (26c)
                Conky: window type - normal
                Conky: drawing to created window (0x1200002)
                Conky: drawing to double buffer
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 185: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 247: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 279: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 301: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 386: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 466: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 533: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 627: saw number, expected matrix
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 1309: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 1440: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                Fontconfig warning: "/home/stephen/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 1518: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not work as expected
                sh: 1: sensors: not found"

                Never worked out how to get rid of the fontconfig error, any ideas?
                AND once again, thank you and many thanks to MHUMM2!!!
                Bukunut
                Last edited by Bukunut; Mar 08, 2014, 09:34 AM.
                There are three kinds of people in the world; those who can count and those who can't.
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                  #9
                  sh: 1: sensors: not found"
                  Do you have lm-sensors installed? "sensors" is in that package.
                  How about curl, have you installed it?
                  And, libxft2 as well?
                  "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
                  – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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                    #10
                    GreyGeek

                    Yes thank you GreyGeek, they had been loaded now, been looking at other scripts and coding and find bits to change or add
                    Never messed with conky before and it has been great fun, thank you for opening this thread Mhumm2!
                    Bukunut
                    There are three kinds of people in the world; those who can count and those who can't.
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                      #11
                      Since you guys are showing off your conky's - here's my latest. I tried to make it look a little like the Ubuntu symbol.
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                        NICE, Oshunluvur!
                        (Now I'm going to have to figure out how you put the circular progress bars.)

                        And, a BIG THANK YOU to mhumm2, for posting a pic of his design and the .conkyrc script. Mine was too busy and packed too much unnecessary info into too small a space. Your layout is beautiful.

                        I added some lines which show available HD space and fixed some display errors using additional sed commands. Here is the .conkyrc script:
                        Code:
                        # My Conky 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.
#
#fonts

use_xft yes
xftfont comicsansms:size=10
xftalpha 0.8
uppercase no

update_interval 5.0
total_run_times 0
double_buffer yes
no_buffers yes

own_window yes
own_window_type normal 
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_argb_visual yes
#own_window_colour black
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

alignment bottom_right
minimum_size 300 800
maximum_width 350
gap_x 10
gap_y 60

#border info
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
stippled_borders 8
border_margin 4
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color LightBlue
default_shade_color White
default_outline_color White
color1 White
color2 LightGray

# Variables
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 1
override_utf8_locale yes

format_human_readable
short_units

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about?  This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer right

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
############################################################################
TEXT

########## SYSTEM ##############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color$font
${font}${color2}Name:  ${color}$nodename 
${color2}Kernel: ${color}$sysname $kernel on $machine

${color2}OS: ${color}KUBUNTU ${alignr}${color}${execi 6000 cat /etc/os-release|grep 'PRETTY_NAME'|awk '{print $2" "$3}'}
${color2}VERSION:${alignr}${color}${execi 6000 cat /etc/os-release|grep 'VERSION='|awk '{print $1}'|sed 's/VERSION="//'|sed 's/,//'}
${color2}GUI:${alignr}${color}${execi 6000 konsole -version|grep 'KDE' |awk '{print $1" "$4}'}
${color2}Total Uptime:${alignr} ${color}${uptime_short}

########## CPU ###############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}CPU ${hr 2}$color$font
${font}${execi 6000 cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep -m 1 'model name'|awk '{print $4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8}'}
${color2}Cores: ${color}${execi 6000 cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep -m 1 'cpu cores'|awk '{print $4}'}   
${color2}Temp: ${color}${exec sensors|grep 'Core 0'|awk '{print $3}'} 
${color2}Load: ${color} $cpu% ${cpubar 12}

######### GPU ###############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}GPU ${hr 2}$color$font
${color2}Model: ${color}Intel HD 4000
${color2}Temp: ${color}${exec sensors|grep -m 1 'temp1:'|awk '{print $2}'}

######### MEMORY ###############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}MEMORY ${hr 2}$color$font
${color2}RAM:  ${color}$memperc%    ${alignr}$mem / $memmax
#${color2}Swap:  ${color}$swapperc%     ${alignr}$swap / $swapmax

[B]######## HD SPACE ####################
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}HD SPACE ${hr 2}$color$font
${color2}ROOT: ${color}${fs_free_perc /}% (${fs_free /}/${fs_size /})
${color}${fs_bar 5,150 /}
${color2}HOME: ${color}${fs_free_perc /home}% (${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home})
${color}${fs_bar 5,150 /home}[/B]

######### NETWORK ###############
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}NETWORK ${hr 2}$color$font
${color2}IP on wlan0: ${color}${alignr}${execi 3600 curl -s http://192.168.1.1|grep 'wan_ipaddr'|awk '{print $1,$2}'|sed 's/<span id="wan_ipaddr">//'|sed 's!</span>&nbsp;!!'}
${color2}Down ${color}$alignr ${downspeedf wlan0} kb/s
${color2}Up   ${color}$alignr ${upspeedf wlan0} kb/s
    
######### WX ####################
${color CC9900}${font Arial:style=Bold}LOCAL WX${hr 1}$color$font
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |grep 'LIN'|awk '{print $1,$2,$3,$7}'}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 2p|awk '{print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7}'}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 3p|awk '{print $1,$2,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9}'}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 5p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 6p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 7p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 8p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 9p}
${execi 3600 curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLNK.TXT |sed -n 10p|awk '{print $1}'|sed 's/ob://'}
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                        Last edited by GreyGeek; Mar 09, 2014, 04:57 PM.
                        "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
                        – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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                          #13
                          GG: Just google for and download conky_rings.lua, add these lines to your conkyrc:

                          # Lua Load #
                          lua_load ~/.conky/conky/clock_rings.lua
                          lua_draw_hook_pre clock_rings

                          and edit to hearts content. It's pretty well remarked and easy enough to figure out.

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                            GreyGeek

                            Unless your /home is on a separate drive wouldn't the' /' and the ' /home' be the same reading?
                            And only for point of interest, you could change to ' /home/stephen' ? (well for me anyhow...eg. 'user' )

                            Bukuntu
                            Last edited by Bukunut; Mar 10, 2014, 01:54 PM.
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                              Originally posted by Bukunut View Post
                              GreyGeek

                              Unless your /home is on a separate drive wouldn't the' /' and the ' /home' be the same reading?
                              And only for point of interest, you could change to ' /home/stephen' ? (well for me anyhow...eg. 'user' )

                              Bukuntu
                              (Answering for GG) Most of us have a separate /home. It's the simplest way to protect your data from accidentally erasure. In my case, I use a single btrfs container so although my home resides in a separate subvolume, the available space is the same as root so there's no point in showing both.

                              In answer to your other question: while there's no reason not to monitor /home/stephen vs. /home, the reported free space will be the same unless /home and /home/stephen are on separate filesystems.

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