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dslinux

Member

Registered: 2008-09-19

Posts: 5

Conky problem.

When i want to start conky i get this error.

Conky: Can't set the specified locale!
Check LANG, LC_CTYPE, LC_ALL.
Conky: no readable personal or system-wide config file found

Lord Illidan

Member

From: Malta

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 248

Re: Conky problem.

Do you have a config file for conky? It should be ~/.conkyrc

If you don't, copy this text to a file and name it .conkyrc, and put it in your home directory. Since it's customised for my system, it might not be optimal for yours, for instance, mine gives wifi transfer rates, but you might not have wifi, etc.

# 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 yes

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1
# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 280 5



# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
draw_borders no
# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_borders no

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

# Stippled borders?
#stippled_borders 8

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 2

# Default colors and also border colors, 90 == #e5e5e5
default_color white
#default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white

own_window_colour blue
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 20
gap_y 20

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

override_utf8_locale yes
xftfont Candera:size=8
xftalpha 0.9

TEXT

${font :size=14}${color 00ffff}${alignc}${time %A, }${color 00ffff}${time %e %B %G}

${color 00ffff}${alignc}${time %H:%M:%S}
${font :size=8}${color }UpTime: ${color }$uptime
${color }Linux:  ${color }$kernel

${offset 30}${color }CPU 1   ${color }${cpu cpu1}%${offset 80}${color }CPU 2   ${color }${cpu cpu2}%
${color }${cpugraph cpu1 20,150 0000ff ff0000}${color }${cpugraph cpu2 20,150 0000ff ff0000}
    

${color }Processes: ${color }$processes       Running:   ${color }$running_processes

${color #FF5555}${top name 1}${alignr}${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}
${color #FFaa55}${top name 2}${alignr}${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}
${color #FFff55}${top name 3}${alignr}${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}
${color #aaFF55}${top name 4}${alignr}${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}
${color #55ff55}${top name 5}${alignr}${top pid 5} ${top cpu 5} ${top mem 5}
${color #55ffdd}${top name 6}${alignr}${top pid 6} ${top cpu 6} ${top mem 6}



${color }MEM: ${font :size=8}$alignc${color }$memperc% $mem/$memmax
${color lightgrey}${membar 5,300}
${font :size=8}${color }SWAP: ${font :size=8}$alignc${color }$swapperc% $swap/$swapmax
${color lightgrey}${swapbar 5,300}
${font :size=8}${color }LINUX: ${font :size=8}$alignc${color }${fs_free_perc /}%  ${fs_free /}/${fs_size /}
${color lightgrey}${fs_bar 5,300 /}


${font :size=8}${color }NET: IP ${color }${alignc}${addr wlan0}${color }

${offset 30}${color}Up:  ${color }${upspeed wlan0}k/s${offset 80}${color}Down:  ${color }${downspeed wlan0}k/s${color}
${color }${upspeedgraph wlan0 20,150 0000ff ff0000}${color }${downspeedgraph wlan0 20,150 0000ff ff0000}