Dynamic network interface with Conky config

Anexthesy · 2017-03-17 01:17:10

Hello,

Here's my problem: I have two PCs with the wireless interfaces wlp3s0 and wlp7s0 and I have to create two seperate conky config files for my computers for a piece of code that looks like this:

${if_up wlp3s0}${exec iwgetid -r}${else}*${endif} ${color1}]${color0}

I tried ${exec echo wlp3s0} or ${exec ls /sys/class/net | grep wlp} but none of them work (the condition returns false).

Is there a way to do this without the use of any bash/lua/python script? Thank you in advance

jasonwryan · 2017-03-17 01:30:19

So, you want the same conky config to work on both machines? Is that the goal?

It would be easier to use a udev rule to change the names of the interfaces...

Moving to NC...

Anexthesy · 2017-03-17 02:53:32

I think I'll just do that, thanks for the reply!

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Dynamic network interface with Conky config

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Re: Dynamic network interface with Conky config

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Re: Dynamic network interface with Conky config

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