OK, so my opening question to Philip was "What's Conky?"
He replied disdainfully "That display on your desktop!"
My reason for asking was that I loved Hanna's funky post above and I wanted one!!
Then I scrolled down and saw Fabsh's modification and there were elements of his Conky config that I wanted too! In particular, I liked the moon phase displayed as an image.
My next question to Philip completely threw him 
- "So do I just copy Hanna's text into my Terminal command?"
Once he had finishing choking on his very expensive beer that I had bought him tonight and stopped laughing long enough to draw breath, he explained that I needed to do it through my conkyconfig file.
"What's one of them and where is it?" I asked.
Several expletives fell from his lips, met with a tirade back at him from my own. (We do love each other )
I then asked him to show me/talk me through what I needed to do to set up my desktop to mirror Hanna/Fabsh's conky display.
2 hours later, 3 glasses of wine consumed and after much patient (through gritted teeth!) tuition I passed the laptop over to Philip to finish it off as I had about lost the will to live once my terminal kept giving me error messages that I had no idea how to correct, let alone understand.
Philip, bless him, has the patience of a saint but I could tell that he was getting pissed off with all of my questions like "Why am I typing that into the terminal - what am I asking it to do?" and was itching to get his hands on my laptop and do some fault-finding of his own.
The result was Philip did his "thing" in 15 minutes and now I have a conky display that is awesome, though I am still none the wiser on how he achieved it 
The purpose of the exercise tonight was to teach me some basic system administration/set-up and reduce my "noobishness" when it comes to all things Linux, but he failed miserably and I still have no f***ing idea what he does all day on his laptop and we have wasted 2 hours when we could have watched a DVD together (ultimately a more enjoyable pastime than what has been described above!)
Check out my new conky
# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont Trebuchet MS:size=8
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048
# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1
# 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
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
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 180 0
# Draw shades?
draw_shades no
# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no
# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0
# border margins
border_margin 5
# border width
border_width 1
# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
own_window_colour white
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_right
# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 35
gap_y 50
# 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 yes
# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer none
TEXT
SYSTEM ${hr 2}
Host: ${alignr}${nodename}
Kernel: ${alignr}${kernel}
CPU: ${cpu cpu}% ${alignr}${cpubar 8,60 cpu}
RAM: $memperc% ${alignr}${membar 8,60}
Uptime: ${alignr}${uptime}
DATE ${hr 2}
${alignc 35}${font Trebuchet MS:size=26}${time %H:%M}${font}
${alignc}${time %a %d %b %Y}
HD ${hr 2}
Home:
${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /home}
Root:
${fs_free /root}/${fs_size /root} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,60 /root}
NETWORK ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan1}
Up: ${upspeed wlan1} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan1 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Down: ${downspeed wlan1} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph wlan1 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Upload: ${alignr}${totalup wlan1}
Download: ${alignr}${totaldown wlan1}
Signal: ${wireless_link_qual wlan1}% ${alignr}${wireless_link_bar 8,60 wlan1}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
Up: ${upspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Down: ${downspeed eth0} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth0 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth0}
Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth0}${endif}${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth1}
Up: ${upspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth1 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Down: ${downspeed eth1} kb/s ${alignr}${downspeedgraph eth1 8,60 789E2D A7CC5C}
Upload: ${alignr}${totalup eth1}
Download: ${alignr}${totaldown eth1}${endif}${else}${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}4${font} Network Unavailable${endif}
WEATHER ${hr 2}
${if_existing /proc/net/route wlan1}
${voffset -8}${alignr 56}${font ConkyWeather:style=Bold:size=40}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=WF}${font}
${voffset -52}${font Weather:size=40}y${font} ${voffset -38}${font Trebuchet MS:size=26}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=HT}${font}
${voffset 0}${font}Barometer Tendency: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=BD}
${voffset 0}Humidity: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=HM}
${voffset 0}${font}Wind Speed: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --hideunits --datatype=WS} km/h ${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --hideunits --datatype=WD}
${voffset 0}${font}Wind Gusts: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=WG}
${voffset 0}Daylight: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=SR} - ${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=SS}
${font Trebuchet MS:size=12}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=MP}
${voffset -30}${alignr 42}${font MoonPhases:size=28}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=MF}${font}
${else}${if_existing /proc/net/route eth0}
${voffset -8}${alignr 56}${font ConkyWeather:style=Bold:size=40}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=WF}${font}
${voffset -52}${font Weather:size=40}y${font} ${voffset -38}${font Trebuchet MS:size=26}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=HT}${font}
${voffset 0}${font}Barometer Tendency: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=BD}
${voffset 0}Humidity: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=HM}
${voffset 0}${font}Wind Speed: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --hideunits --datatype=WS} km/h ${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --hideunits --datatype=WD}
${voffset 0}${font}Wind Gusts: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=WG}
${voffset 0}Daylight: ${alignr}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=SR} - ${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=SS}
${font Trebuchet MS:size=12}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=MP}
${voffset -30}${alignr 42}${font MoonPhases:size=28}${execi 600 conkyForecast --location=UKXX0176 --datatype=MF}${font}
${endif}${else}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=14}4${font} Weather Unavailable
${endif}
Last edited by bobobex (2008-12-02 23:39:12)
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