The conky-ness thread!

Originally Posted by Habitual You need a proper "hobby", but I suppose this one doesn't irritate the Wife.

You may be right ... one of a few old ones: 3 Canon SLR's (FTBn, A-1 & AE-1) and all the gadgets plus a darkroom for B&W... that ages me.

I 'help' clean house, wife likes that.
I have a tool box and do home repairs for self and MIL. MIL likes that, wife loves it.

Conky keeps me out of trouble, wife likes that. And she is so computer savvy she thinks I should be selling them. She doesn't understand 'free'.

Is breathing a hobby?

Originally Posted by Sector11 Is breathing a hobby?

Whatever the Wife says it is, it is

Using Debian 7.2.0 (Wheezy)and Fluxbox

Originally Posted by lproe Using Debian Wheezy

WOW! She's sweet ... umm ... I mean Debian Wheezy that is.

Debian (jessie/sid) Fluxbox

That is a lot of Conky going on.
I like that you got the transparency to work. Transparency with Openbox is easy, but I was unable to make it work with Fluxbox. There was a black background behind the Conky.

# 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 no

# 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

# 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 5.0

# 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 no

# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type normal

# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes

# If own_window_transparent is set to no, you can set the background colour here
own_window_colour hotpink

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
#own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# 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 no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_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 black
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 10
gap_y 26

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# 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 none

# Allow each port monitor to track at most this many connections (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
#max_port_monitor_connections 256

# Maximum number of special things, e.g. fonts, offsets, aligns, etc.
#max_specials 512

# Maximum size of buffer for user text, i.e. below TEXT line.
#max_user_text 16384

# 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
$nodename - $sysname $kernel on $machine
$stippled_hr
${color green}Uptime:$color $uptime ${color lightgrey}- Load:$color $loadavg
${color green}CPU Temperature: ${acpitemp}
${color green}CPU Usage:${color #cc2222} $cpu% ${cpubar}
${color red}${cpugraph 0000ff 00ff00}
${color green}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax - $memperc% ${membar}
${color green}Swap Usage:$color $swap/$swapmax - $swapperc% ${swapbar}
${color green}Processes:$color $processes  ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes
$color$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Networking:Wired
 Down:${color green} ${downspeed eth0} k/s${color lightgrey} ${offset 100}Up:${color green} ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${color green}${downspeedgraph eth0 32,175 ff0000 0000ff} ${color red}${upspeedgraph eth0 32,175 0000ff ff0000}
${color lightgrey}
$stippled_hr
${color lightgrey}Networking:Wireless
 Down:${color green} ${downspeed wlan0} k/s${color lightgrey} ${offset 100}Up:${color green} ${upspeed wlan0} k/s
${color red}${downspeedgraph wlan0 32,175 ff0000 0000ff} ${color green}${upspeedgraph wlan0 32,175 0000ff ff0000}
${color lightgrey}
$stippled_hr
${color green}File systems:
 / $color${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar /}
 $stippled_hr
${color}Name              PID     CPU%   MEM%
${color red} ${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 lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color}Mem usage
${color red} ${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}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 4} ${top_mem pid 4} ${top_mem cpu 4} ${top_mem mem 4}
$stippled_hr
${color green}Port(s)${alignr}#Connections   
$color Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count}  Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}${alignr}ALL: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}
${color green}Inbound Connection ${alignr} Local Service/Port$color
 ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 0} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 0}
 ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 1} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 1}
 ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 2} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 2}
 ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 rhost 3} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 lservice 3}
${color green}Outbound Connection ${alignr} Remote Service/Port$color
 ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 0} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 0}
 ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 1} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 1}
 ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 2} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 2}
 ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rhost 3} ${alignr} ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 rservice 3}

# 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 no

# 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

# 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 5.0

# 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

# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type desktop

# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes

# If own_window_transparent is set to no, you can set the background colour here
own_window_colour hotpink

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
#own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# 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 no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_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 black
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 10
gap_y 26

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# 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 none

# Allow each port monitor to track at most this many connections (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
#max_port_monitor_connections 256

# Maximum number of special things, e.g. fonts, offsets, aligns, etc.
#max_specials 512

# Maximum size of buffer for user text, i.e. below TEXT line.
#max_user_text 16384

# 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
${voffset 70}
${color white}/var/log/messages:
${color green}${exec tail -n3 /var/log/messages |fold -w50}

${color white}dmesg:
${color green}${exec dmesg | tail -n3 |fold -w50}

${color white}/var/log/daemon.log:
${color green}${exec tail -n3 /var/log/daemon.log |fold -w50}

${color white}/var/log/auth.log:
${color green}${exec tail -n3 /var/log/auth.log |fold -w50}

${color white}/var/log/syslog:
${color green}${exec tail -n3 /var/log/syslog |fold -w50}

${color white}/var/log/user.log:
${color green}${exec tail -n3 /var/log/user.log |fold -w50}

choose:

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes

# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type desktop

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

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@ lproe

Please ... from a user, not a mod, go back to your previous posts and put the conkys in [ code] and [ /code] (without the space) tags.

In edit mode, highlight the code and then click on the # in the menu above:

the code here

^^^^^^ like this.

To see it, hit [Quote] for this post below ... and you will see how.

Originally Posted by lproe choose: # Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus) own_window yes # If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override own_window_type desktop # Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone) double_buffer yes

Personally I prefer:

# if own_window is yes, you may specify type normal, desktop, dock, panel or override (default: normal).
own_window_type normal

It allows me to centre-click or right-click on the conky for menus:


"normal" will open these as my "options" and I can pick and choose:

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

I frequently do not use "sticky" as I run different conkys on different desktops.

However, how best to configure your conky depends on your system, DE or WM and composite manager to name a few roadblocks.
Above is Debian SID with OpenBox - and it works in Crunchbang - since it is Debian Stable and OpenBox.

Settings above TEXT

own_window_type if own_window is yes, you may specify type normal, desktop, dock, panel or override (default: normal). Desktop windows are special windows that have no window decorations; are always visible on your desktop; do not appear in your pager or taskbar; and are sticky across all workspaces. Panel windows reserve space along a desktop edge, just like panels and taskbars, preventing maximized windows from overlapping them. The edge is chosen based on the alignment option. Override windows are not under the control of the window manager. Hints are ignored. This type of window can be useful for certain situations.

EDIT: Your conky ... as is - causes some really weird stuff here.

Thanks for your input

I really appreciated it.

Originally Posted by lproe Thanks for you input I really appreciated it.

I'm glad you didn't take it wrong.

The first - about the [ code] blocks is pretty standard "Forum Etiquette" everywhere.

The second part about "desktop" vs "normal" is something I have learned over time. As well as the havoc that various 'composite' have on conky.