Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Thanks once again Sector11.  I'm probably going to call it a night and finish this up tomorrow.  Seems straight forward enough.

I checked my other install.   corenomial's  xfce version may have been done a different way, but I guess that is because he's "THE MAN" ... I'd like to know how he set it up though.   Interesting.
G'night.

Last edited by Dave W. (2011-12-05 04:03:52)

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Well MrPeachys dials.lua is working great just screenshot to show what can be done with it....

            [Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/9rjFM)

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Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime!

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

dlm955 wrote:

Well MrPeachys dials.lua is working great just screenshot to show what can be done with it....

            [Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/9rjFM)

Is this fully in lua, or a conky pulling in lua dials?

Slick indeed. smile

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

BoredOOMM wrote:
dlm955 wrote:

Well MrPeachys dials.lua is working great just screenshot to show what can be done with it....

            [Imgur](http://i.imgur.com/9rjFM)

Is this fully in lua, or a conky pulling in lua dials?

Slick indeed. smile

      That's a conky pulling in lua dials made the background with gimp..

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Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime!

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Dave W. wrote:

Hello people,
I'm using the updated iso image and have installed xfce and my conky will not auto-start.  Any pointing in the right direction will be very much appreciated.  I think my head is going to explode. wink
Thanks,
Dave

In Xfce 4.6 you have not to do anything to autostart it, Xfce can remember the session and conky will be started automatically the next reboot, under 4.8 I made a desktop file and put it in my autostart config, that should also work under 4.6.

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Throne777 wrote:
EnochRoot wrote:

And talking of my conky, here is my current setup, still going naked without a panel.

http://s7.postimage.org/q5vw41fvb/2011_12_03_1322908111_2560x1024_scrot.jpg

EIGHT CPUs?!

Of course smile

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

ivanovnegro wrote:
Dave W. wrote:

Hello people,
I'm using the updated iso image and have installed xfce and my conky will not auto-start.  Any pointing in the right direction will be very much appreciated.  I think my head is going to explode. wink
Thanks,
Dave

In Xfce 4.6 you have not to do anything to autostart it, Xfce can remember the session and conky will be started automatically the next reboot, under 4.8 I made a desktop file and put it in my autostart config, that should also work under 4.6.

Thanks, but something is amiss then.  No auto-start of conky.

Here is my terminal output:

dave@crunchbang64open:~$ conky
Conky: /home/dave/.conkyrc: 62: no such configuration: 'border_margin'
Conky: forked to background, pid is 2003
dave@crunchbang64open:~$
Conky: desktop window (1a00003) is subwindow of root window (14e)
Conky: drawing to desktop window
Conky: drawing to double buffer

Does this offer any clues?  Is it that border_margin thing?

Dave

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Dave W. wrote:

Does this offer any clues?  Is it that border_margin thing?

It is a depreciated conky command above TEXT that has been changed to two commands:

border_inner_margin
    Inner border margin in pixels (the margin between the border and text).

border_outer_margin
    Outer border margin in pixels (the margin between the border and the edge of the window).

Comment it out or use one or both of the above.

Do you have this in your menus:

Applications > Settings > Settings Manager > Autostarted Apps

Last edited by Sector11 (2011-12-05 13:26:08)

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Sector11! 
I am good to go.  I didn't edit the depreciated lines yet..., but did add conky to the auto-start gui.  Thanks,  it now works.


For other noobs like me, I found here:

Settings > Xfce4 Settings Manager > Sessions and Startup

Very easy to configure.  Thanks once again.

smile

Dave

Last edited by Dave W. (2011-12-05 14:26:25)

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Dave W. wrote:

Sector11! 
I am good to go.  I didn't edit the depreciated lines yet..., but did add conky to the auto-start gui.  Thanks,  it now works.

Good, I realize things change from version to version when it comes to "settings" but at least you have it.  That's the main thing.

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Sector11 wrote:
Dave W. wrote:

Sector11! 
I am good to go.  I didn't edit the depreciated lines yet..., but did add conky to the auto-start gui.  Thanks,  it now works.

Good, I realize things change from version to version when it comes to "settings" but at least you have it.  That's the main thing.

No sweat about the settings S11.  I'm curious though, in doing it without the gui.  Gives me something new to figure out. smile  I'll have to dig into the OS a bit. wink

I'm also interested in eventually trying out the updated iso with Wheezy...

Here is my conky.  All white for this laptop.

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background with signal strength.
background yes

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

out_to_console no

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 7x12
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
font 8x12
#font 7x12
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
#font -artwiz-snap-normal-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont DejaVu Sans:size=10

own_window_transparent no
own_window_colour black

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

#on_bottom no

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window no

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

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 200 5
maximum_width 200

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 15

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color 000000
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color green

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_right
#alignment middle_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text

gap_x 30
gap_y 15

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

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

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

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti

# Possible variables to be used:
#
#      Variable         Arguments                  Description               
#  acpiacadapter                     ACPI ac adapter state.                   
#  acpifan                           ACPI fan state                           
#  acpitemp                          ACPI temperature.                       
#  adt746xcpu                        CPU temperature from therm_adt746x       
#  adt746xfan                        Fan speed from therm_adt746x             
#  battery           (num)           Remaining capasity in ACPI or APM       
#                                    battery. ACPI battery number can be     
#                                    given as argument (default is BAT0).     
#  buffers                           Amount of memory buffered               
#  cached                            Amount of memory cached                 
#  color             (color)         Change drawing color to color           
#  cpu                               CPU usage in percents                   
#  cpubar            (height)        Bar that shows CPU usage, height is     
#                                    bar's height in pixels                   
#  downspeed         net             Download speed in kilobytes             
#  downspeedf        net             Download speed in kilobytes with one     
#                                    decimal                                 
#  exec              shell command   Executes a shell command and displays   
#                                    the output in torsmo. warning: this     
#                                    takes a lot more resources than other   
#                                    variables. I'd recommend coding wanted   
#                                    behaviour in C and posting a patch :-). 
#  execi             interval, shell Same as exec but with specific interval.
#                    command         Interval can't be less than             
#                                    update_interval in configuration.       
#  fs_bar            (height), (fs)  Bar that shows how much space is used on
#                                    a file system. height is the height in   
#                                    pixels. fs is any file on that file     
#                                    system.                                 
#  fs_free           (fs)            Free space on a file system available   
#                                    for users.                               
#  fs_free_perc      (fs)            Free percentage of space on a file       
#                                    system available for users.             
#  fs_size           (fs)            File system size                         
#  fs_used           (fs)            File system used space                   
#  hr                (height)        Horizontal line, height is the height in
#                                    pixels                                   
#  i2c               (dev), type, n  I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev   
#                                    may be omitted if you have only one I2C 
#                                    device. type is either in (or vol)       
#                                    meaning voltage, fan meaning fan or temp
#                                    meaning temperature. n is number of the 
#                                    sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on     
#                                    your local computer.                     
#  kernel                            Kernel version                           
#  loadavg           (1), (2), (3)   System load average, 1 is for past 1     
#                                    minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for   
#                                    past 15 minutes.                         
#  machine                           Machine, i686 for example               
#  mails                             Mail count in mail spool. You can use   
#                                    program like fetchmail to get mails from
#                                    some server using your favourite         
#                                    protocol. See also new_mails.           
#  mem                               Amount of memory in use                 
#  membar            (height)        Bar that shows amount of memory in use   
#  memmax                            Total amount of memory                   
#  memperc                           Percentage of memory in use             
#  new_mails                         Unread mail count in mail spool.         
#  nodename                          Hostname                                 
#  outlinecolor      (color)         Change outline color                     
#  pre_exec          shell command   Executes a shell command one time before
#                                    torsmo displays anything and puts output
#                                    as text.                                 
#  processes                         Total processes (sleeping and running)   
#  running_processes                 Running processes (not sleeping),       
#                                    requires Linux 2.6                       
#  shadecolor        (color)         Change shading color                     
#  stippled_hr       (space),        Stippled (dashed) horizontal line       
#                    (height)       
#  swapbar           (height)        Bar that shows amount of swap in use     
#  swap                              Amount of swap in use                   
#  swapmax                           Total amount of swap                     
#  swapperc                          Percentage of swap in use               
#  sysname                           System name, Linux for example           
#  time              (format)        Local time, see man strftime to get more
#                                    information about format                 
#  totaldown         net             Total download, overflows at 4 GB on     
#                                    Linux with 32-bit arch and there doesn't
#                                    seem to be a way to know how many times 
#                                    it has already done that before torsmo   
#                                    has started.                             
#  totalup           net             Total upload, this one too, may overflow
#  updates                           Number of updates (for debugging)       
#  upspeed           net             Upload speed in kilobytes               
#  upspeedf          net             Upload speed in kilobytes with one       
#                                    decimal                                 
#  uptime                            Uptime                                   
#  uptime_short                      Uptime in a shorter format               
#
#  seti_prog                         Seti@home current progress
#  seti_progbar      (height)        Seti@home current progress bar
#  seti_credit                       Seti@hoome total user credit


## antiX additives examples. Add below Text##
##${color cccccc}battery: ${color cccccc}$acpiacadapter, ${battery_percent BAT1}%
##${color white}battery:${color white} ${battery}
##Witeless example##
#${color cccccc}Wireless:
#${color cccccc}essid: ${wireless_essid wlan0}
#${color cccccc}IP:${color cccccc} ${addr wlan0}
#${color cccccc}speed: ${color cccccc} ${wireless_bitrate wlan0}
#${color cccccc}link strength: ${color cccccc} ${wireless_link_bar 7,50 wlan0}

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
#${shadecolor white}${font Swift:size=20}${color white}CUTTLEFISH$font
${color white}${hr 2}$shadecolor
${font DejaVu Sans:size=14}${color white}CrunchBang amd64$font
${font DejaVu Sans:size=8}Statler20111125
Updated Image XFCE$font
${color white}$sysname $kernel
${color white}Uptime: ${color white}$uptime
${color white}${hr 2}
${color white}CPU ${color white}Usage: ${color white}$cpu%
${shadecolor white}${color white}${cpugraph 30,200 white white}$shadecolor
${color white}Frequency: ${color white}$freq ${color white}MHz
${color white}RAM ${color white}Usage: ${color white}$memperc%
${shadecolor white}${color white}${memgraph 30,200 white white}$shadecolor
${color white}$mem${color white}/${color white}$memmax
${color white}$buffers ${color white} Buffered
${color white}$cached ${color white} Cached
${color white}Swap ${color white}Usage:
${color white}$swap${color white}/${color white}$swapmax ${color white}- ${color white}$swapperc%
${color white}$swapbar
${color white}Free Space:
${color white}/root:${color white} ${fs_free /} ${color white}= ${fs_free_perc /}%
${color white}$fs_bar_free /home
${color white}/home:${color white} ${fs_free /home} ${color white}= ${fs_free_perc /home}%
${color white}${fs_bar_free /home}
${color white}Networking:
Up:${color white}${upspeed wlan0} ${color white} - Down:${color white}${downspeed wlan0}
${font DejaVuSansMono:size=8}${color white}Running processes: ${color white}$running_processes$font
${font DejaVuSansMono:size=8}${color white}Name                ${color white}CPU%    ${color white}MEM%$font
${font DejaVuSansMono:size=8}${color white} ${top name 1}  ${color white}${top cpu 1}  ${color white}${top mem 1}$font
${font DejaVuSansMono:size=8}${color white} ${top name 2}  ${color white}${top cpu 2}  ${color white}${top mem 2}$font
${font DejaVuSansMono:size=8}${color white} ${top name 3}  ${color white}${top cpu 3}  ${color white}${top mem 3}$font
${color white}link strength: ${color white} ${wireless_link_bar 7,50 wlan0}
##${color white}Battery: ${battery_bar BAT0}, ${battery_percent BAT0}% 
${color white}battery: ${color white}$acpiacadapter, ${battery_percent BAT0}% 
##${color}battery:${color} ${battery}
${color white}${time %a %d %b %l:%M:%S%p}

${font Penguin Attack}${color white}Conky ${color white}$conky_version$font
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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

@jinnstar  - Thanks

http://s9.postimage.org/q14rn518b/2011_12_05_1323099507_1024x768_scrot.jpg

Last edited by kowloonboy (2011-12-05 15:50:59)

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Dave W. wrote:

No sweat about the settings S11.  I'm curious though, in doing it without the gui.  Gives me something new to figure out. smile  I'll have to dig into the OS a bit. wink

I'm also interested in eventually trying out the updated iso with Wheezy...

Here is my conky.  All white for this laptop.

Without GUI - think: "bash file"

Some tips:

If you set the default color to white above TEXT:

default_color FFFFFF #000000

you can eliminate 'every':

${color white}   ${color}

after TEXT.

Also down where you have your processes, call the font once and turn it off once, like this:

${font DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8}Running processes: ${running_processes}
Name                CPU%    MEM%
 ${top name 1}  ${top cpu 1}  ${top mem 1}
 ${top name 2}  ${top cpu 2}  ${top mem 2}
 ${top name 3}  ${top cpu 3}  ${top mem 3}${font}

Last edited by Sector11 (2011-12-06 21:26:09)

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Awesome!!

Thanks Sector11  I appreciate the help and suggestions.  I almost always manage to do things the hard way.
big_smile

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Dave W. wrote:

Thanks Sector11  I appreciate the help and suggestions.  I almost always manage to do things the hard way.

You're welcome ... I was coming back to show you an image of what it looks like here with those changes AND
- added #! to the first line -
- no wireless - so hooked in eth0,
- changed the last font, that I didn't have, to something radical just for fun.

Looks Nice:
http://thumbnails54.imagebam.com/16295/cd0f12162947543.jpg

Last edited by Sector11 (2011-12-05 17:25:07)

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

EnochRoot wrote:
Throne777 wrote:

EIGHT CPUs?!

Of course smile

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
OK OK smile for you but still sad here.

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Sector11 wrote:
Dave W. wrote:

Thanks Sector11  I appreciate the help and suggestions.  I almost always manage to do things the hard way.

You're welcome ... I was coming back to show you an image of what it looks like here with those changes AND
- added #! to the first line -
- no wireless - so hooked in eth0,
- changed the last font, that I didn't have, to something radical just for fun.

Looks Nice:
http://thumbnails54.imagebam.com/16295/cd0f12162947543.jpg

It looks better than nice.  Looks great!

I'll need to modify my own.

Last edited by Dave W. (2011-12-05 17:55:00)

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Dave W. wrote:

It looks better than nice.  Looks great!

I'll need to modify my own.

One other thing I did:

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 200 5
#maximum_width 200

That's about it...

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

I am having issues with
wlan on the Jinnstar conky posted in post 26.

The ip is from the router not my net ip. This throws off Longlat as well.
Any suggestions?

w ${goto 20} ${addr wlan0} ${goto 170}${wireless_essid wlan0} | ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}%

http://s5.postimage.org/m33zvj4mr/Screenshot_12052011_09_32_27_PM.jpgCassiopeia is the system name and the blank below ip would be wlan stats.

Last edited by BoredOOMM (2011-12-06 05:39:24)

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

BoredOOMM wrote:

I am having issues with
wlan on the Jinnstar conky posted in post 26.

The ip is from the router not my net ip. This throws off Longlat as well.
Any suggestions?

w ${goto 20} ${addr wlan0} ${goto 170}${wireless_essid wlan0} | ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}%

http://s5.postimage.org/m33zvj4mr/Screenshot_12052011_09_32_27_PM.jpgCassiopeia is the system name and the blank below ip would be wlan stats.

The wlan0 addr call will call the ip address currently assigned by the gateway/router. I'm not sure how to get your actually net ip without a script of some sort. Maybe others have an idea.

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

jinnstar wrote:
BoredOOMM wrote:

I am having issues with
wlan on the Jinnstar conky posted in post 26.

The ip is from the router not my net ip.

The wlan0 addr call will call the ip address currently assigned by the gateway/router. I'm not sure how to get your actually net ip without a script of some sort. Maybe others have an idea.

Yeppers, need to ask out of conky thread is my surmise after some searching. Thanks for your response!

Last edited by BoredOOMM (2011-12-06 06:30:51)

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

BoredOOMM wrote:
jinnstar wrote:
BoredOOMM wrote:

I am having issues with
wlan on the Jinnstar conky posted in post 26.

The ip is from the router not my net ip.

The wlan0 addr call will call the ip address currently assigned by the gateway/router. I'm not sure how to get your actually net ip without a script of some sort. Maybe others have an idea.

Yeppers, need to ask out of conky thread is my surmise after some searching. Thanks for your response!

     here is the one I use to get it once when you start conky,no need to keep checking it unless your IP keeps rotating your addr...

             NET IP: ${pre_exec wget -qO - http://www.whatismyip.org}   if you have trouble with it check -qO that's the a capital letter o

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

dlm955 wrote:

     here is the one I use to get it once when you start conky,no need to keep checking it unless your IP keeps rotating your addr...

             NET IP: ${pre_exec wget -qO - http://www.whatismyip.org}   if you have trouble with it check -qO that's the a capital letter o

That works to tell me where in the Wide World of Sports I am at... hmmmm not a solution for conkylatlong.py not working now.

[solved] http://conky.pitstop.free.fr/wiki/index … ng.py_(en)

needed correct address to pull from and python command in conky

.. Thanks for your help dlm955

Last edited by BoredOOMM (2011-12-06 07:24:47)

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Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

Greetings all,
Hopefully this is an easy one.  I use the same temp code for both my laptop and desktop.  The temp works great on the laptop but on the desktop it stays a constent 104F.  Never higher, never lower.  This is the line of code from my config file I use:

${voffset 2}${font Weather:size=10}${color1}y${voffset -1}${font}${color1}${offset 5} CPU Temp${alignr}${hwmon tempf 1}°F

Here is a SS of the desktop where you can see the temp at 104F
http://thumbnails27.imagebam.com/16286/d4f57f162858609.jpg
And here is the Laptop showing accurate temp (at least I think it's accurate  smile  ):
http://thumbnails39.imagebam.com/16018/0e686b160178265.jpg

Thanks in advance for any and all guidance

All the best,

Ian

Last edited by ichase (2011-12-06 12:36:44)

Re: December 2011 Conky Thread

ichase wrote:

Greetings all,
Hopefully this is an easy one.  I use the same temp code for both my laptop and desktop.  The temp works great on the laptop but on the desktop it stays a constent 104F.  Never higher, never lower.  This is the line of code from my config file I use:

${voffset 2}${font Weather:size=10}${color1}y${voffset -1}${font}${color1}${offset 5} CPU Temp${alignr}${hwmon tempf 1}°F

 
         ichase I use hwmon on both a laptop and desktop also but I don't have an f after temp try

   

 ${hwmon temp 1}°F  

     you will need

 temperature_unit fahrenheit 

above text to get fahrenheit in conky

   also type sensors in a terminal and see what that says for cpu temp

Last edited by dlm955 (2011-12-06 13:56:15)

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