Conky [Part 2]

[FieserKiller]

Well, i still ran torsmo until last week, but by changing my server and reinstalling gentoo i decided to switch to conky finally.
Everything went smooth, but I have a problem with $acpitemp. In fact, my PC has two ACPI temps and i want to display both - when I simply use $acpitemp in my users .conkyrc file, it shows the correct Temp of the CPU thermal zone, is there a way to show the temperature of the System thermal zone with acpitemp as well?
As an alternative i tried to use this command:

{exec sed s/".* \([0-9]*\) .*"/"\1"/ /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRS/temperature}

pasting it into the bash gives me the correct temperature, but conky just renders the line in its window and doesn't execute the command.
Any solutions?

[ppurka]

First of all, thank you.

You are welcome

Now another question, can I make part of the text bold?
And can I make tables, I mean for proper alignment

Thnkas again in advance

I think you can, because you can specify a bold font, specifically. From conky homepage:

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font	(font)	Specify a different font. This new font will apply to the current line and everything following. You can use a $font with no arguments to change back to the default font (much like with $color)

For alignment, you have got the parameters: alignr, alignc. And by default your text is aligned on the left.

[gregf]

Is there a way to have conky wrap text? I use the maximum_width option but would like to still see all the text my script(s) put out. TIA

[neuron]

I got a bit of a problem with my background image, cant see the conky text when it's set to transparent.

If I set the color to black, it gets ugly (as it merges with the text shadow I imagine), is there any way to either turn off the text shadow, or change the transparency level of conky? (without xgl/compiz preferably).

[agt]

I'm trying to get the following RSS feed to work with the conky-rss.sh script found here.

http://www.sportal.co.nz/rss/newzealand/Rugby_Union.xml

The script is not displaying the right information however. Any ideas how to fix this? I think I need to change the 'sed' bits of the script.

[Pentahex]

I've seen this problem mentioned a few times, here and elsewhere, but I haven't found an answer. When running Conky with:

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own_window no
own_window_transparent yes

All desktop icons disappear. Does anybody have Conky running transparent without this problem?

[Cagnulein]

I've modified the seti's module of conky for managing the boinc xml system.
Give it a try
Bye

Link

[drphibes]

I've seen this problem mentioned a few times, here and elsewhere, but I haven't found an answer. When running Conky with:

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own_window no
own_window_transparent yes

All desktop icons disappear. Does anybody have Conky running transparent without this problem?

With own_window no, you are drawing to your desktop window. This is a problem for desktops with icons.
You must have conky draw in its own window by using own_window yes. All other own_window_ settings
only have meaning when own_window is yes. The own_window_transparent yes config item above is
meaningless without own_window yes. That said, you cannot prevent obscuring icons directly under conky.
You must situate conky away from the area where you are tiling icons.

[Pentahex]

That makes sense, but when I use:

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own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes

I just get a black background, and no transparency.

[drphibes]

That makes sense, but when I use:

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own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes

I just get a black background, and no transparency.

I think what is happening is that pseudo-transparency actually is working, but your root window
is a black window underneath your desktop. What you need to try is to set your root pixmap
with programs like esetroot, feh, etc., and probably add such a program to the startup cycle,
with conky starting after the root pixmap is set.

[Pentahex]

Yep, that works, thanks.

[Gentree]

That's handy, this is very close to a problem I am having.

I have used conky on xfce4 for over a year, maybe more and it has been excellent.

I have recently updated conky a couple of times [app-admin/conky-1.4.1] and xfce4 is now:

Xfce 4 Desktop Environment version 4.3.90.2 (Xfce 4.4 BETA2)

now conky shows my wm bg image momentarily but when it updated the output it replaces the image with plain grey bg. Equally if I flip to another desktop I get the image until the conky refresh then it goes grey.

The main thing I like about conky as compared to gtkrellm for ex. is that it writes on the desktop so I'm not really looking for a workaround by using own_window = yes.

Is this a known problem?
Thanks

[drphibes]

That's handy, this is very close to a problem I am having.

I have used conky on xfce4 for over a year, maybe more and it has been excellent.

I have recently updated conky a couple of times [app-admin/conky-1.4.1] and xfce4 is now:

Xfce 4 Desktop Environment version 4.3.90.2 (Xfce 4.4 BETA2)

now conky shows my wm bg image momentarily but when it updated the output it replaces the image with plain grey bg. Equally if I flip to another desktop I get the image until the conky refresh then it goes grey.

The main thing I like about conky as compared to gtkrellm for ex. is that it writes on the desktop so I'm not really looking for a workaround by using own_window = yes.

Is this a known problem?
Thanks

Try not to confuse the notion of own_window yes with window decorations. I also use xfce4 (svn)
and I draw with these conky parameters:

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
own_window_type normal

Conky is drawing in its own window and appears on the desktop, as with own_window no.
You do not need to set your root pixmap with xfce4, as conky identifies it correctly.

Also, upgrade to 1.4.2 if you can.

[Gentree]

thank you doctor,

that has created something like what I had before.

me happy.

[orlfman]

If any one is using xmms2 and would like conky to read what song you are running in xmms2 add this to your .conkyrc file:

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${color #00b5ef}XMMS2$color
${color #00b5ef}Title - ${color #00b5ef}${execi 10 xmms2 current}

xmms2 guys added the infopipe thing built in

[trinity]

Hi,

I have conky working fine but there is a small problem. In my ~.conkyrc I have this part:

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${color}Name                CPU%     MEM%
${color green} ${top  name 1}   ${top cpu 1}   ${top mem 1}
${color green} ${top  name 2}   ${top cpu 2}   ${top mem 2}
${color green} ${top  name 3}   ${top cpu 3}   ${top mem 3}
${color green} ${top  name 4}   ${top cpu 4}   ${top mem 4}
${color green} ${top  name 5}   ${top cpu 5}   ${top mem 5}

The problem is the text is not always align. Here is what I mean:

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Name        CPU%       MEM%
bittorent   47.12        23.55
Xorg      17.44        10.15
conky       0.33         0.49
xfce4-panel  0.33         2.47
xchat       1.67         2.44

So, there is a way to align columns correctly?
Thanks!

[yngwin]

Use a monospace font.

[trinity]

Use a monospace font.

Thanks! It works now

[Gentree]

Hi,

I've just moved to an AN7 and sensors are no longer on i2c bus but the platform bus:

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bash-3.1# ls /sys/bus/platform/devices/     
abituguru.224  i8042  pcspkr  serial8250  vesafb.0

I have the display I want with the following config, but I think I read that exec was a bit heavy to run. I there a better way to display these temps?

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${color lightgrey}Temperatures: ${color red}cpu: ${exec sensors|grep "CPU Temp"|cut -c 28-31} ${color lightgrey} case: ${exec sensors|grep "S$
${color lightgrey}cpu ${execbar sensors|grep "CPU Temp"|cut -c 28-31}

TIA.

[ksool]

Hey all,
I've just started with conky, and so far its great.

I've been searching through this thread and havent been able to find an answer to the following:
Is there anyway to setup different update intervals for different items? It'd really be useful to set it to only look for the size of a network mount or something like that ever minute instead of every time conky refreshes. Right now, that really causes conky to drag.

Thanks.

[andrewd18]

I've got an issue...

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${if_mounted /media/WDC Combo/}${color slate grey}WDC COMBO:  ${color }${fs_free /media/WDC Combo/}/${fs_size /media/WDC Combo/}
${fs_bar 3,100 /media/WDC Combo/}${endif}

/media/WDC Combo/ is the accurate location of my external drive. However, conky doesn't see it. Setting /media/WDC\ Combo/ like I would for the cd command in bash doesn't work either. Thoughts?

[drphibes]

I've got an issue...

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${if_mounted /media/WDC Combo/}${color slate grey}WDC COMBO:  ${color }${fs_free /media/WDC Combo/}/${fs_size /media/WDC Combo/}
${fs_bar 3,100 /media/WDC Combo/}${endif}

/media/WDC Combo/ is the accurate location of my external drive. However, conky doesn't see it. Setting /media/WDC\ Combo/ like I would for the cd command in bash doesn't work either. Thoughts?

conky reads the second, space-delimited or null-terminated string in the /etc/mtab file to confirm the mount.
that will be read as /media/WDC looking at the sscanf. the workaround is simply to create a mount point
with no embedded spaces, or you can probably also get away with using:

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${if_mounted /media/WDC}

which will likely cause a match. Usable, as long as you don't have other mount points with the WDC prefix.

[andrewd18]

conky reads the second, space-delimited or null-terminated string in the /etc/mtab file to confirm the mount.
that will be read as /media/WDC looking at the sscanf. the workaround is simply to create a mount point
with no embedded spaces, or you can probably also get away with using:

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${if_mounted /media/WDC}

which will likely cause a match. Usable, as long as you don't have other mount points with the WDC prefix.

Thanks for the tip; I'll try that when I get home. HAL and Gnome-Volume-Manager give the drive its own name, so I'm not exactly in control of how the mount point is named (and I honestly don't know where to go to read up on it). I suppose a ln -s /media/WDC\ Combo/ /media/WDC_Combo would work, now that you mention it.

Anyway, thanks. I'll give that a shot.

[drphibes]

I suppose a ln -s /media/WDC\ Combo/ /media/WDC_Combo would work, now that you mention it.

Merely symlinking the mountpoint won't help your cause. Remember it's the match of what /etc/mtab reports to the if_mounted parameter. You could symlink AND do a mount -bind to that linked dir. That will create a second entry in mtab and let you use it as your parameter to if_mounted.

[IvanMajhen]

How can I monitor ESSID with conky?