Conky Help

Based on all the great screen shots on the "Post Your Screen shots" thread, I see everyone has really cool Conky setups. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 on my Dell Latitude & installed "conky" and my system however I wanted to know how to get a nice flashy looking conky that comes up at startup like everyone has. Is there a setup guide anyone can point me to?

 

Hey homie.....I posted one on here, can help you....let me find it... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=245135

I can help you if you need it....let me know.

Here is some good chatter about it: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865&highlight=conky+set

 

You know what? Why don't the both of you just come down here to Miami, it's nice and toastier down here.

 

Calvin...it's wayyy too toasty here right now.....'cane season this weekend....oh boy!!

 

I like hurricanes, the only downside is that it cuts your electricity and water and internet for a while. D:

 

If you are going to use compiz-fusion than you will need to create a bash file.

Open the terminal and do the following:

The will allow compiz fusion to load it setting first and for conky to be transparent and stay below any other window.

 

I am just using Compiz - I don't think that is the same as Comiz-Fusion, right? I am checking out the suggested links above now and see what I can manage.
Thanks all.

I am from Miami Beach (North Cuba) and never want to go back...

 

If you are using Ubuntu 8.04, chances are that you are using compiz-fusion. Unless you removed compiz-fusion and install regular compiz (compiz-fusion are install by default ever since 7.10).

The step above are highly recommended to have conky to startup automatically if you are using gnome and compiz-fusion. If you go to System>Preference>Sessions>Add tab and only put "conky" in the command field. Conky may be loaded as a separate window that stay above any other window unless its restarted. This is cause by compiz-fusion setting that happen to load after conky have been initiated.

If the command line scare you, you can still do the same steps by opening your usual text-editor and save the file in you home directory.

 

Thanks. I had no idea Compiz Fusion was not a replacement for Compiz. I created the bash script above using VI since I don't have or like "Gedit" installed. I then saved the script and then added it to start up so the delay should work. Now I just need to find a conkyrc file that I like.

Do you know where I can find some nice application bar launchers for Gnome?

 

You mean the dock as shown in mac osx? Avant Window Navigator is the one I use and is officially in the repository. To autostart this program, you only need avant-window-navigator in the command field .

Here the default conky's script found using this command to extract:

zcat /usr/share/doc/conky/examples/conkyrc.sample.gz > ~/.conkyrc

or copy and paste the one below (the same file as above).

PHP:

# UBUNTU-CONKY
# A comprehensive conky script, configured for use on
# Ubuntu / Debian Gnome, without the need for any external scripts.
#
# Based on conky-jc and the default .conkyrc.
# INCLUDES:
# - tail of /var/log/messages
# - netstat connections to your computer
#
# -- Pengo ([email protected])
#

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

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

# fiddle with window
use_spacer yes
use_xft no

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 3.0

# Minimum size of text area
# minimum_size 250 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
font arial
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 3

# border margins
border_margin 9

# border width
border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color grey

own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes

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

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 10

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
$color
${color orange}SYSTEM ${hr 2}$color
$nodename $sysname $kernel on $machine

${color orange}CPU ${hr 2}$color
${freq}MHz   Load: ${loadavg}   Temp: ${acpitemp}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 000000 ffffff}
NAME             PID       CPU%      MEM%
${top name 1} ${top pid 1}   ${top cpu 1}    ${top mem 1}
${top name 2} ${top pid 2}   ${top cpu 2}    ${top mem 2}
${top name 3} ${top pid 3}   ${top cpu 3}    ${top mem 3}
${top name 4} ${top pid 4}   ${top cpu 4}    ${top mem 4}

${color orange}MEMORY / DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM:   $memperc%   ${membar 6}$color
Swap:  $swapperc%   ${swapbar 6}$color

Root:  ${fs_free_perc /}%   ${fs_bar 6 /}$color
hda1:  ${fs_free_perc /media/hda1}%   ${fs_bar 6 /media/hda1}$color
hdb3:  ${fs_free_perc /media/hdb3}%   ${fs_bar 6 /media/hdb3}

${color orange}NETWORK (${addr eth0}) ${hr 2}$color
Down: $color${downspeed eth0} k/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed eth0} k/s
${downspeedgraph eth0 25,140 000000 ff0000} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph eth0
25,140 000000 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown eth0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup eth0}
Inbound: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count} Outbound: ${tcp_portmon 32768
61000 count}${alignr}Total: ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count}

${color orange}LOGGING ${hr 2}$color
${execi 30 tail -n3 /var/log/messages | fold -w50}

${color orange}FORTUNE ${hr 2}$color
${execi 120 fortune -s | fold -w50}

 

Yes, if you're using gnome, AWN is in the repo's for a dock.

 

Thanks. I was looking for something like AWN and it works fine. I installed it using terminal / apt-get.

I am a little confused however since I have it up & running, it appears to only show active windows I have open. Like a window list bar. How do I use it as a launcher for applications I commonly use rather than apps I already have running?

 

Simply, click and drag every program you want from Application to the dock. Another way to do this is to add them manually through awn-manager in the launcher tab.