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johnnymike

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Registered: 2012-10-14

Posts: 12

Cannot change internal graph color in Conky

Hey everyone,
I have run into a problem when configuring my Conky widget for my fresh Arch install.  I installed Conky and am using a modified configuration that I found here on the forums.  The contents of my conky.conf file are found below:

background yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Sans:size=8
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 500 250
maximum_width 200
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
alignment top_right
gap_x 12
gap_y 35
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 4
override_utf8_locale no
text_buffer_size 1024

TEXT
${font sans-serif:bold:size=9:}${color CFCFCF}SYSTEM ${color 818181}${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${color 818181}$sysname $kernel $alignr$machine
Host: $alignr$nodename
Uptime: $alignr$uptime
File System: $alignr${fs_type}

${font sans-serif:bold:size=9}${color CFCFCF}PROCESSORS ${color 818181}${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${color 818181}CPU (Avg): $alignr ${cpu cpu0}% 
${cpugraph cpu0 40,200 237BEE -l}
Core 1: ${cpu cpu1}% ${cpubar cpu1}
Core 2: ${cpu cpu2}% ${cpubar cpu2}
Core 3: ${cpu cpu3}% ${cpubar cpu3}
Core 4: ${cpu cpu4}% ${cpubar cpu4}

${font sans-serif:bold:size=9}${color CFCFCF}MEMORY ${color 818181}${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${color 818181}RAM $alignc $mem / $memmax $alignr $memperc%
$membar

${font sans-serif:bold:size=9}${color CFCFCF}DISKS ${color 818181}${hr 2} 
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${color 818181}Root $alignc ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} $alignr${fs_used_perc /}%
${fs_bar /}
Home $alignc ${fs_used /home/johnmichael} / ${fs_size /home/johnmichael} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /home/johnmichael}%
${fs_bar /home/johnmichael}

${font sans-serif:bold:size=9}${color CFCFCF}TOP PROCESSES ${color 818181}${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:bold:size=8}${color A8A8A8}${top_mem name 1}${alignr}${top mem 1} %
${top_mem name 2}${alignr}${top mem 2} %
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${color 818181}$font${top_mem name 3}${alignr}${top mem 3} %
$font${top_mem name 4}${alignr}${top mem 4} %
$font${top_mem name 5}${alignr}${top mem 5} %

${font sans-serif:bold:size=9}${color CFCFCF}NETWORK ${color 818181}${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${color 818181}IP address: $alignr ${addr wlan0}
ESSID: $alignr ${wireless_essid wlan0}
Connection Quality: $alignr ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}%

$alignr${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Download
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${downspeedgraph wlan0}
${downspeed wlan0}/s $alignr ${totaldown wlan0}

$alignr${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}Upload
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${upspeedgraph wlan0}
${upspeed wlan0}/s $alignr ${totalup wlan0}

${font sans-serif:bold:size=9}${color CFCFCF}EMAIL ${color 818181}${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:normal:size=8}${color 818181}Gmail Messages: $alignr ${execpi 300 python ~/.scripts/gmail.py}
GA Tech Messages: $alignr ${execpi 300 ~/.scripts/imap.pl}

The problem that I am having is in trying to specify the internal color of the cpu graph for the average cpu activity:

${cpugraph cpu0 40,200 237BEE -l}

I want to keep the boarder of the graph the same darkish grey color as the rest of the widget but I want to change the color of the portion of the graph inside the boarder to a blue color, e.g. the hex color in the code above, or more specifically to match the blue that I am using in my Archey and prompt in urxvt.

I looked up the Conky variable defintions for how to do this and apparently you specifiy gradientcolor1 and gradientcolor2 after the size definition, similar to how I have done it in my conifg (I know that I am only using one color in the above code but it is still not working even when I define two different colors).

Here is a picture of my desktop:

http://ompldr.org/vZzR6dw

As you can see the internal portion of the graph is the same grey color as the majority of the widget.  I searched extensively on the forums and Google for a solution but everything that I try doesn't work. 

Any suggestions?