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tyndallc

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From: Manitoba, Canada

Registered: 2010-02-20

Posts: 20

Conky Help

I am new to using conky and am looking at setting up a conky file for my arch openbox setup.  What I am looking for is something that goes along the top of the screen (1280x1024 monitor) that includes the computer name, kernel version, uptime, cpu's (quad core) and mem usage.  Don't require drive space specs or wireless or network info.  A black background with white lettering would be awesome.  However, I have absolutely no idea how I would go about setting this up.

Any help would be appreciated.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: Conky Help

There is a conky thread stickied in the Artwork & Screenshot forum: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39906

You can pick and choose what you need from there...

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schen

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 468

Re: Conky Help

There is some nice conky info here

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky

and here
http://conky.sourceforge.net/
Also I found a nice conky config that may fit your needs.

update_interval 0.5
background yes
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
border_inner_margin 2
border_width 1
minimum_size 1024x10
draw_graph_borders yes
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
alignment top_middle
gap_x 0
gap_y 0
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
double_buffer yes
override_utf8_locale yes
use_xft yes
xftfont Clean:size=8
TEXT
${alignc}${kernel} | \
CPU ${freq_g} ${cpubar cpu0 8,10} | \
RAM ${membar 8,10} | \
Swap ${swapbar 8,10} | \
Root ${fs_bar 8,10 /} | \
Data ${fs_bar 8,10 /mnt/documents} \
${if_up eth0}\
| LAN ${addr eth0} ${downspeedf eth0}Ko/s - ${upspeedf eth0}Ko/s \
${endif}\
${if_up wlan0}\
| WIFI ${addr wlan0} ${downspeedf wlan0}Ko/s - ${upspeedf wlan0} Ko/s \
${endif}\

Modify as needed.

Last edited by schen (2010-05-12 23:09:50)